Programme Overview
The programme will be a 12 month, 50 sessions intensive platform/ face to face, featuring a mix of lectures, case studies and workshops. It intends to sensitize participants to the transformation of women in organizations from managerial roles to leadership positions, and subsequently attempts to equip the participants with both theoretical and applied skills that would guide them to navigate their paths through the complex processes of managerial renovations. In the process, they would engage with a variety of executive dimensions that require leadership vision, self-exploration and understanding, skills, applications and articulations. How do women in the corporate become effective leaders is the broad question this program intends to respond to at various levels of managerial, administrable and political crossroads.
Programme Objective
Transformation from managerial to leadership roles for working women professionals. The programme will include the following modules:
- Women in management
- Leading and managing teams
- Bird’s eye view of organizational functions
- Managing in a digital age
- Leadership communication
- Legal and human resource perspectives
- Women in emerging markets
- Building one’s leadership potential
- Strategic leadership
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Who Should Attend
- Working women professionals with at least 5 years of managerial experience in top companies
- Participants demonstrating significant career achievements/ leadership responsibilities.
- Women engaged in family business /entrepreneurial activities.
- Graduates (10+2+3 or equivalent) in any discipline with minimum 50% aggregate and 50% or more in post-graduation are also eligible.
Programme Duration and Delivery
The duration of the programme is 12 months.
The sessions will be delivered through the D2D (Direct to Device Mode) online platform and through face-to-face sessions at IIM Calcutta campus.
The programme will be delivered through online classes held once a week. The class schedule is Day of the week: Saturday, 3:30pm – 6:30 pm
There will be two campus visits. 1st campus visit will be of 3 days (towards the beginning of the programme) and 2nd campus visit will be of 3 days (towards the end of the programme).
Campus modules will remain compulsory for all.
The campus visits will be conducted subject to the evolving pandemic situation and will depend on government and institute regulations, advisories and guidelines related to the pandemic.
Pedagogy
The pedagogy will be highly interactive. It will leverage use of technology and will consist of, depending on the subject, a judicious blend of lectures, real life case studies, quizzes, and assignments.
Programme Content
(IIMC reserves sole right on the content of the programme)
Module 1
- Women in management: An introduction to specific issues women face as they navigate their careers in organizations.
- Global Perspectives on Gender
- Women in Management
You will be able to appreciate how your status as a woman and a professional relates to the organization and society and the impact DEI initiatives could have on you.
Module 2
- Leading and managing teams
- Managing and leading teams
- Conflict management
- Effective negotiations
- Interpersonal skills
You will gain insight what holds you back in negotiations and how to become more effective in the same. You will be able to overcome your anxieties associated with leading teams and realise your full range of potential.
Module 3
- Bird’s eye view of organizational functions
- Basics of financial markets
- Operations
- Marketing
- Introduction to financial accounting
At the end of this module, you will develop breadth in your managerial expertise. Whatever may be the function you are coming from, you will be able to understand how it relates to other domains of management and organization.
Module 4
- Managing in a digital age
- Digital transformation
- Data analytics
- Digital marketing
With this module, you will familiarise yourself with how digital intersects your functional domains and gain working knowledge of common digital tools and practices.
Module 5
- Leadership communication
- Storytelling, and trans-medial narratives
- Data presentations
- Strategic communication, persuasion and argumentation
- Communication Analytics
- Gamification
Through this module, you will unblock your communication limitations. You will discover your forte and learn to use techniques and methods such as story-telling, narratives and gamification to communicate and persuade effectively. You will develop the confidence to communicate like a leader.
Module 6
- Legal and human resource perspectives
- Human Resource Management
- Legal Perspectives
Through this module, you will add to your breadth of management understanding and become aware of the legal and human resources issues you need to be mindful of as you pursue your leadership work.
Module 7
- Working women in emerging markets
- Post-colonial women
Through these sessions, you will transform your mental models of leadership and being professional to tap into the strengths you bring to the table as a woman You will learn how to reconfigure your limitations as advantages and thereby overcome the personal and professional challenges you have been facing.
Module 8
- Building one’s leadership potential
- Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Coaching and mentoring
- Behaviour and cognition
Learn the techniques for continuous improvement via self-awareness, building influence and developing your team and subordinates. Learn to manage your biases.
Module 9
- Strategic leadership
- Organization: structure and strategy
- Strategic leadership
Become adept at understanding the competitive advantage and the essence of strategic thinking and leadership.
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Alumni Status
- LDP participants who complete the programme successfully become the Alumni of IIMC Executive Education, which currently has over 33,000 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
How to Apply
For further details and for downloading the application form please visit - https://timespro.com/executive-education/iim-calcutta-transitioning-into-leadership-a-programme-for-women-executives
Name: Prathmesh Dali
Number: 1800-843-1552
Email ID: admissions[at]timesgroup[dot]com
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