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WILL Creating Women Business Leaders: 2011 A Leadership Learning Experience for Senior Women Executives

In association with Knowledge PartnerTata Management Training Centre5-day Residential Program, May 2 – 6, 2011, Pune

Forum for Women in Leadership, New Delhi, India

[email protected], www.willforumindia.com





» Incorporate all social contexts for

learning, connect with self regard and self

concept, allow learning to use personal

voice in dialogue with others, consider

women’s connections to enhance learning.

» Clear goals operate with autonomy,

respectful of all learning styles, builds on

experiences, self directed, stretching and

supportive

This Program will enable Menteesto

• Understand the leadership context forwomen.

• Explore and examine who they are as

leaders in different contexts

• Increase “Individual Capital” by

discovering their strengths

• Enhance “People Capital”, by actively

building and growing self and others, and

creating vibrant relationships

• Learn to enjoy the leadership voyage,

find their energy-source and discover

manifest happiness for themselves, usingconstructive frameworks

• Enhance their “Executive Presence” and

build confidence for risk-taking and

embracing opportunities

• Appreciate the way in which gender

impacts the exercise of authority in a

group or organization

• To nurture and guide senior women

executives to engage with cross industry

peers and learn from each other’s

experiences and from the distinguished

leadership faculty of our KnowledgePartner Infosys Leadership Institute and

Tata Management Training Center, and the

WILL Mentoring Council.

• To provide the opportunity for

strengthening varied aspects critical to

achieving success and advancement for

women executives in their professional

roles; and build an increased self-

awareness in participants with a bettersense of well-being and more effective

leadership personalities.

Principles of the Program

• Learning Leadership

» Leadership is best learned through a

focus on experience, role models, action

oriented content and finding relevancy

• Adult Learning Model

» Provide learning through all modes:

didactic, experiential, conversation, group

exchange, simulation, reflection (public

and private). The Faculty approach

balances between directive and facilitative

• Learning with Women

» Capturing the experience of women,

providing a common learning foundation,

building across function and expertise,building across generations and learning

from the experience of other women.



PROGRAM THEMES

Theme 1: The Leadership Context

It is said that the last thing that a fish is

likely to discover is the water it is

swimming in. The question here is: like the

fish, do we take our context for granted?

As women leaders who have a role to play

in shaping and setting the organizational

context, it is imperative that we explore

and understand the milieu and

environment in which we have evolved ourleadership.

Developing the ability to read and decipher

the forces that have shaped our lives as

women and leaders will result in women

becoming more aware of the contexts that

need to be created NOW. Exploring the

question of “what type of context is being

created by your leadership?”, will lead to

building “contextual intelligence” – the

ability to understand the influence of the

contextual forces surrounding women in

leadership, and the ability to adapt and

change the leadership style as

environmental conditions evolve.

During this session, aspects related to

personal, gender and cultural dimensions of

women’s leadership will be covered both in

terms of “what” and also “how” women can

exercise Contextual Leadership and be

masters of their context.



Theme 2: The Alchemy: Activating

The Power of Self

“Alchemy neither composes nor mixes: it

increases and activates that which

already exists in latent state” Being in the leadership space means a

deep commitment to enhancing our

personal and professional capacities.

Creating a strong foundation for

leadership involves building personal

infrastructure. Developing further on the

participants’ understanding of the merits

of good leadership – this session will

provide an opportunity to learn specific

techniques and practices that create

leadership excellence.

The session will focus on building abilities in

three areas:

• Self -Resilience

• Leading and Managing Change

• Global Leadership and Mind-Set

By giving active expression to developing

women’s leadership as an integral part of

business strategy we will move closer to the

goal of building women business leaders.

-“Leaders are more powerful role

models when they learn than when

they teach”

- Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Theme 3: The Dynamics of Women at

Workplace

The session promises to be a Socratic

voyage of discovery with some key

questions that impact women’s leadership development as part of the learning

agenda:

• What are some of the stereotypes that

the workplace reinforces or disputes?

• What are the interpersonal and power

dynamics at the workplace?

What are the challenges related to

Gender Diversity at the workplace and

how they can be addressed?

“The real voyage of discovery

consists not in seeking new landscape, but in having new eyes”

- Marcel Proust, French Essayist and novelist



Theme 4: Women Developing

Women

Networking, Mentoring and Coaching will

form the three pillars of this session.Women working together can create a

powerful energy for achievement of each

other’s potential. The challenge is to

examine and explore the nature of our

engagement with each other and give a

definite commitment towards activating

the latent energy within us.

The session focuses on both exploring the

relevance and building the skills to provide

successful leadership in these areas and

also optimize their growth opportunities.

Theme 5: Presenscing

"To see the world in a grain of sand,

and a heaven in wild flowers, Hold

infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour"

- William Blake

In this final session the focus will be on

evolving the future with actions in the

present.

The specific focus will be on consolidating

and expressing the Leadership Challenges,

Develop Learning Partnerships, and

concretize ways in which women’s

leadership will find its Voice, Expression,

and Engagement.

At the end of this session participants

would have a very clear and definite link

with their “highest future possibility” and

let it come into the present as actual

actions and experiences.

They will also understand the critical

importance of building an Executive

Personal Brand based on their personal

value system; strong delivery of

accomplishment and goals, and building

networks beyond the workplace that will

enrich their capabilities.



THE LEARNING SYSTEM

This will comprise of work in groups in the

form of Focus Learning Session, Panel

Discussion, Interaction Session, Review

Event, Role Consultation Event and Yoga

Focus learning session

This will consist of the participants and a

facilitator (s). The opportunity in these

sessions is to engage in depth individual

learning by each member and to explore

views, feelings and thoughts as they arise in

relationship to learning objectives, and howthis process is affected by dynamics

operating at the level of the group.

The panel discussion

A group of specialist/experts from the field

will come together to share with the

members various viewpoints related to a

particular topic. Consisting also of

Questions and Answers session, this form

will also provide an opportunity forexploring contemporary issues related to

Women’s leadership

The Review System

lt is expected that the members will review

their learning in groups and adopt discovering

implementation possibilities as an integral

process and will also consult with one

another to add breadth and depth to their

learning. To enable and ensure this, focused

Learning Review Events will be held.

Interaction Sessions

This session provides an informal interaction

with the Leaders in Industry and anopportunity to interact and explore emerging

issues. These sessions will be held during the

evenings and are intended to enable the

emergence of “Outside-In” view of Women’s

Leadership Development.

In addition to the above, two optional events

are also being offered:

Role Consultation Event:

Time slots will be provided for members to

receive individual consultation on specific

organizational problems in which they are

involved. The methodology followed by the

consultants will be based on socio-analytic

approach, which uses psychoanalytic insights,

organization theories, behavioral science

theories and systems theories.

Yoga

Techniques for relaxation and detoxification

of the individual system will be offered in thisevent. The task of the event will be to get in

touch with one’s experience, linking body and

mind, in a unique way. Addressing the inter-

connectedness between mind, body, and spirit in

one's personal and professional life is the core of

"empowering the self".



Learning Experiences:

WILL Mentees Batch of 2009Creating Women Business Leaders:

Mentoring Experiences and Leadership Styles

May 2009, Knowledge-Partner, Infosys Leadership Institute, Mysore

In the following pages, some of the

excellent "WILL Mentees: Batch of

2009" share their learning’s from the 5-

day cross-industry residential WILL

Mentoring Program, which is followed

by the 3-month Individual Mentoring

with the distinguished WILL MentoringCouncil Members allocated to them.

Questions for the WILLMentees:

• What are the kinds of issues,

concerns, and goals discussed with the

WILL Mentors?

• Are the issues and challenges

different before and after the WILL

Mentoring Program?• If so, how did the issues and goals

change after attending Phase I of the

WILL Leadership Program?

• What is it that you are going to do

differently in the future?

How are your colleagues and peers in the

company responding to your new

aspirations?

• Is it possible for you to define your

"differentiating style of leadership" that

you may have now recognized, as

opposed to the standard leadershiptheories and concepts?

Participating Companies• Infosys Technologies

• KPMG

• Tata Consultancy Services

• ONCG

• ICICI Bank

• Zensar Technologies

• Citigroup • Dr. Reddys Laboratories

• Genpact

• Bharti Enterprises

• Nokia Inida

• UCB India

• Indian Hotels



Learning Experiences:

WILL Mentees Batch of 2010Creating Women Business Leaders:May 2010, Knowledge Partner, Tata Management Training Center, Pune

Questions for WILL Mentees• What are the key corporate challenges for

India?

• How would you and your team best resolve

these challenges?

• What processes, deliveries, and structures

can you effectively put into place to

accomplish this task?

• What will be your leadership style in driving

this transition for your organization and for

society?

Participating Companies

• Microsoft India

• IBM

• Tata Consultancy Services

• Accenture Consulting

• Tata Steel

• Tata Teleservices

• Tata Capital • Zensar Technologies

• Mahindra Group

• KPMG

• GE India

• Dr. Reddy’s Labs

• Genpact



WILL “Creating Women Business Leaders: 2011

Supporting Research Reports

Sponsored By: Sponsored By:

WILL User’s Guide: WILL Mentees Learning Manual 2010

Mentoring Women in the Workplace Women Define Corporate Challenges for India

WILL Program Convener

Poonam Barua

WILL Mentoring Council

S.V. Nathan, Deloitte U.S. Offices

Sammy Medora, KPMG Audit Committee Prameela Kalive, Zensar Technologies

David Lobo, GE India Atul Sharma, Monsanto India

Sunita Thawani, JUSCO Aparna Sharma, Deutsche Bank

Jatinder Peters, ONGC

Ritu Anand, Tata Consultancy Services Sangeeta Singh, KPMG India Shravani Dang, Avantha Group Amita Kasbekar, Deloitte U.S. Offices Sumit Chadha, Citibank

Jagvinder Pinny Mann, Bank of America

Program Fee:

Registration Fee for each candidate nominated to the 5-day Mentoring Program will be Rs. 1 Lakh

* Inclusive of all meals and executive accommodation at the TMTC, Pune

* Inclusive of 3-months individual mentoring after the program

* Inclusive of WILL Research Report & background materials related to the Mentoring Program.

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