Programme Overview
The programme is aimed at helping participants build executive presence and authentic leadership by strengthening their skills to communicate with greater impact, make decisions with more awareness, navigate difficult conversations, manage emotions, and influence stakeholders more effectively. With insights from Indian traditional wisdom, the programme will offer a structured approach to participants to understand their strengths and weaknesses, and leveraging those in ways that can help them advance in their careers while being true to themselves.
By the end of the course, participants shall be able to:
- Cultivate Inner Poise and Adaptive Reinvention
- Amplify Ethical Influence and Empathic Resonance
- Navigate Political Currents with Constructive Foresight
Programme Objective
- Provide management education to working professionals while ensuring the desired priorities on quality of education and convenience to participants.
- Develop management skills in niche areas amongst working professionals.
- To help faculty members become conversant with issues and challenges facing the industry.
To use the experiences of LDPs in developing case studies/case lets, for discussions in our diploma programmes.
Programme Directors
Who Should Attend
Senior Management working professionals (preferably with revenue/ leadership responsibilities or large client facing roles) with a minimum of 10 years of experience in large organizations or entrepreneurs/founders, who wish to uncover their leadership potential and build themselves for future leadership roles
Eligibility
Working executives who are graduates (10+2+3 or equivalent)/postgraduates in any discipline with minimum 50% marks, with an experience profile of at least 10 years after graduation are eligible.
Eligible candidates will be selected on the basis of assessment of educational and professional background and motivation based on the application form submitted.
Programme Duration and Delivery
The duration of the programme is 06 months. The programme will be delivered once a week on Sundays 3.30 PM - 6.30 PM through online platform of TalentSprint.
In addition, there will be 1 campus visit of 5-days at the beginning of the programme held at the IIM Calcutta campus. It will be mandatory for participants to attend the campus visit. The campus module will be conducted subject to the evolving pandemic situation.
Pedagogy
The pedagogy will be highly interactive. It will leverage the use of technology. It will consist of a judicious blend of lectures, real-life case studies, quizzes, assignments and simulation.
Programme Content
Modules
Module 1: The Ownership Mindset
- Leadership Cognition and Biases
- Mental Models, Inertia and Agility
- Learning and Competence Building
- Understanding and preventing Derailment
Module 2: Reinventing the Self
- Understanding the Self
- Managing Ego States
- Managing Self in multi-dimensional business dynamics
Module 3: Inspiring Teams
- Leading diverse and cross-cultural teams
- Building future-ready teams
- Working with AI team members
- Driving Initiative in Self-Managed Teams
- Managing across the hierarchy
Module 4: Building Alignment
- Conflict and its dimensions
- Effective Negotiations
- Managing interpersonal relationships
- Supportive communication climate and Active Listening
- Co-existence: Insights from Indian traditional wisdom
Module 5: Leading with Purpose and Presence
- Communication vision - Storytelling, Narratives, Persuasion
- Motivational and Inspirational Leadership
- Mastering Art of Decision Making
- High Impact Presentation Skills
- Ethical and Responsible Leadership (weaving in Insights from Indian wisdom)
Module 6: Empathetic Leadership
- Developing Emotional Intelligence
- Humanizing Leadership - Leading with empathy and compassion
- Indian leadership insights
Module 7: Leading for Inclusion
- Leading a gender diverse organization
- Adaptive Leadership
- Navigating Inter-Generational challenges
Module 8: Cracking the code of Political Skill
- Influence tactics
- Political Skill
- Leadership Networking
- Communicating with CXOs and Board members
- Indigenous insights
Alumni Status
- LDP participants who complete the programme successfully become the Alumni of IIMC Executive Education, which currently has over 35,000 members.
- LDP Alumni are given an email-id in the IIM Calcutta domain.
- LDP Alumni can register in the IIM Calcutta Alumni portal either with this email-id or with their personal email-ids. The IIM Calcutta Alumni portal is a common platform for Alumni of all programmes of the Institute to interact with each other and stay connected with the Institute.
- The Institute shares newsletters, important news and articles about the Institute and its activities, the achievements of the Institute's faculty, staff, students and alumni, upcoming events and programmes etc., on the portal.
- Alumni can post their achievements, write about jobs or LIVE project opportunities for other alumni to see.
- The IIM Calcutta alumni network can also be accessed on mobile phones through the mobile app.
- Executive Education Alumni are entitled to a discount of 5% on the programme fee if they opt to do another LDP.
- By using the different features of the IIM Calcutta portal, alumni across programmes can engage with each other in many meaningful ways. It is up to the alumni themselves to leverage the platform