About 38 participants comprising professors, associate professors, assistant professors from engineering colleges across the states of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Karnataka, Bihar Jharkhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madya Pradesh, Odhisha, and Tripura are participating in the five-day long 8th professional development training that got underway in Raipur on Monday (May 20).
The programme conducted under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), Government of India, under Technical Education Improvement Program (TEQIP) II, aims at promoting excellence and quality teaching in technical institutions.
Professor M.Kannadhasan and Professor Dhananjay Bapat are the programme directors for this training programme and the TEQIP coordinator is professor Sanjeev Prashar, Dean (Academics), according to a press release issued by IIM, Raipur, which is conducting the programme.
On the first day of the programme, the first session were conducted by Prof. Sanjeev Prashar on “Ice-Breaking and inventories on expectations” at Hotel VW canyon.
The participants became acquainted with each other through game playing methods so as to reduce inhibition that exists among the faculty members.
He urged the participants to allow the facilitators to work on them so that they can take maximum benefits of the five-day program.
After the ice-breaking session, Prof Dhananjay Bapat discussed on ‘Vision, Mission and goals in Academia’, wherein the importance of setting aspirations was highlighted and why leaders, as well as organizations, need aspirations.
Further, the connection between aspirations and strategy was highlighted. It was followed by a session on “Building teams for effective collaboration” by Prof Pankaj Singh, wherein he highlighted that It is impossible to work effectively if you don’t work on your team building skills. The last session of the day was handled by Prof M Kannadhasan, wherein he discussed the financial system in academia. He highlighted the General Financial Rules, grant-in-aid and loans, budgeting, and procedures for maintaining the books of accounts.