From leadership management’s standpoint the ability to build a strong organisation is very important, Gaurav ShaH tells VISHAl KATOCH
The USP of Indian School Of Management (ISDM).
We are not a management institution we are a developing management institutions and that’s a big difference. The first theme is to understand development not business no management institution focus on that. There focus is to understand business. We are very different from a business management institution. Even the management leadership aspects how to build an organisation how to create collaborative ecosystem will be very grounded in the development sector and will be for social organisation not for profit organisations. We are different because our entire approach is very holistic.
Tell us about the programme.
The programme here is a one-year post graduation programme in developing leadership. It is a full-time 50 week programme. The first batch started this week. We target students with a work experience mostly from the social sector, which is an adult audience not an 18 year old under graduates our median age will be 24 or 25. The pedagogy is very adult learning driven. There is lot of focus on case studies, discussions, debates, Individual assignments, group assignments also a great mix of in class room and on field experience. — 40 weeks are in the class room and 10 weeks are in the field.
What are the courses feeIJ
The programme is post graduate programme in developing leadership. The entire curriculum is based on a framework called the Australian qualification framework and is been created using those benchmarks, and it is basically based on five themes:
Starting from understanding what development means, how the sector is structured in India and who are the stakeholders.
Second, understand oneself, covering personal mastery transformative leadership.
Third, how do we create world class social organisation with the appropriate practices.
Four, how to design, implement and monitor large scale social interventions.
last, most importantly bring on to the table the entire idea of system thinking.
In terms of cost, tuition fee for the whole one year programme is Rs four lakh, but for the first batch we are offering 100 per cent scholarship for the entire batch.
Since ISDM is a not for profit institution, how does it workIJ
We are a Section 8 company, we were very clear that we want to set the best standards for NGO to collaborate. Hence we needed to raise philanthropic money grants and we are very lucky that we are able to raise grants.
What are some of the professional management and leadership skills that have become the need of the hourIJ
From leadership managements stand point the ability to built strong organisation is very important. What’s happening in the sector today is that it is still very promoter dependent and that’s where the work collapses. The ability to envision large scale and sustainable interventions is important. Making networks by collaboration is a key feature. How you design an organisation, how you recruit and the kind of processes you put in are all skill sets which have became the need of the hour.