Enlightened Leadership (Batch-1)

The program covers topics such as conscious capitalism, organizational purpose, organizational performance, structures and processes for excellence, organizational culture for excellence, corporate social responsibility, and corporate citizenship behaviour.

The programme provides a holistic perspective on the role of enlightened leaders in creating responsible businesses in the emerging environment. While the building blocks of enlightened leadership and responsible business have long evolved, the pandemic has helped bring those issues to the centre-stage. There is a need to realign businesses to keep up with the changing expectations from investors, customers, employees, suppliers, and larger community and society.

Leaders will understand their role in creating purpose-driven organizations that address the real needs of the people they serve, while complying with environmental, social, and governance norms, even as they pursue their financial goals. After making a case for the need for leaders to assume holistic perspective in the initial sessions, the remaining sessions focus on elements of organization design that leaders can develop/implement to enable employees, which a key stakeholder group, to stay true to their personal goals and organization’s purpose to achieve sustainable high performance.

The readings will provide participants the most current perspectives of renowned researchers and consultants on enlightened leadership and responsible business and with examples from various industries. The cases will help participants to apply the concepts diverse contexts. The topics covered will include Conscious capitalism, organizational purpose, organizational performance, structures and processes for excellence, organizational culture for excellence, corporate social responsibility, and corporate citizenship behaviour. Within limits, the themes may be tailored to the expectations of the participants who register.

The objective of this programme is to introduce participants to the concepts of enlightened leadership and responsible business and issues related to building organizations that achieve sustainable high performance. It prepares participants to be enlightened leaders of responsible business organizations within a largely capitalist economic system operating in a democratic society. It attempts to persuade participants to look beyond financial performance parameters as the only criterion of excellence and highlights the need to create societal value by addressing the needs and concerns of all stakeholders that are directly or indirectly involved with or affected by their business organizations. A high-performance organization endeavours to meet and improve the diverse performance expectations as demanded by investors, customers, employees, suppliers, and larger community and society.

The program will be conducted using a combination of lectures, case analyses, exercises and video based discussions. The participants will be expected to prepare for the class sessions and participate in the discussions to facilitate the learning process. Participants will be encouraged to view themselves as leaders trying to reconcile and balance the diverse demands of their organization even as they embark on a long journey to excellence.

The target audience for this program are executives with general managerial responsibilities at the middle and senior management level of any industry. It may also be suitable for senior functional managers who are expected to occupy general managerial roles in the near future. Persons who have experienced the tensions of dealing with diverse demands from multiple stakeholders are most likely to benefit from the program.

Participants will be able to appreciate the sources of the tensions they experience as they try to pursue financial performance, narrowly defined. They will obtain a better understanding of the demands on them as senior leaders in a business organizations operating in a democratic society, and acquire tools and frameworks to pursue enlightened leadership and responsible business practices to guide their organizations towards long term sustainable high performance.

As a participant of this Short Duration Programme, you will be able to enjoy some exclusive benefits other than the outcomes such as skills and knowledge enhancement and building specific competencies that can help shape your career growth.

Some of the exclusive benefits of attending this programme are listed below –