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A Pragati Leadership Institute Newsletter.    March 2009,Volume 3          www.pragatileadership.com

“The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.” Jack Welch

From the Editor’s Desk

Thank you for appreciating and accepting Dove and encouraging us to come up with our third issue. In this edition we have, at length, discussed about our fresh and new long term intervention– Energized Learning Organization (ELO). It talks about the importance of drumming up the internal workforce in an organization, the importance of spreading positive energy and how ELO provides a platform to realize this objective.

Watch out for Pragati News which gives you a glimpse of our “new offerings”. Check out for “cool” online tools which would help you de-stress and relax.

Tired of working incessantly with stringent deadlines and deliverables? Exercise your jaw muscles with “LOL”. Check out our brand new section introduced just to gratify your humorous side!

Pragati Recommends stirs and amuses you with videos that are a great watch both aesthetically and otherwise!

I wish to thank you again for your heartening responses towards our first and second issue. We would love to hear from you – any thoughts, feelings and suggestions. Please do mail me at tanaya.misra@pragatileadership.com

Happy reading,

Tanaya Misra

Editor, DOVE

 

Pragati News

In a recent online global study of 136 Mindful Leaders conducted by Harvard, Arun Wakhlu, one of the founder members and Chairman of Pragati Leadership Institute, was selected in the top 7 worldwide, based on scores on Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence and low Neuroticism.

Two new offerings of Pragati namely, “Surfing the downturn gloriously” and “Leadership Excellence in Action” are specially designed to empower organizations to leap into action and encourage others to do so as well. Pragati offers its partnership to help you sail through these troubling waters with agility and skill.

Surfing the Downturn is an ideal program, pertinent to the current business scenario, which helps participants find hidden opportunities and add value to the customers through fresh ideas.

Leadership Excellence in Action is a power packed four day program which aims in developing leaders who think and act as a cohesive team. The major takeaway from this program would be enabling leaders to look beyond the crisis and look for possibilities even in trying situations.

 

Energised Learning Organization (ELO)

What is ELO?

ELO stands for Energized Learning Organization, which came into existence primarily to speed up the rate of innovation, organizational learning and productivity breakthroughs in organizations.

The change agents in the existing business scenario are fast paced technological infiltration and forces driving globalization. The very topical economic slump has added an extra shade to this picture.

In order to thrive in business and, more importantly, flourish in such a demanding situation, the need of the hour is to nurture the intellectual capital of organizations. It is seen that crafting a self-sustaining “culture of learning” and promoting “positive energy” in organizations act as the drivers of competitive advantages for business organizations these days. The significance of continuous innovation and employee engagement is increasingly being felt and acknowledged by organizations.

A brainchild of Pragati Leadership Institute, Energized Learning Organization (ELO) is a holistic model which aims to empower organizations to continue to focus on deliverables and breakthrough results. ELO has been created based on systematic study and research and twenty one years of rich experience by working with more than five hundred and eighty organizations throughout the world.

What is in it for you?

The unique selling point of the holistic model, ELO, is that it will enable organizations to operate in a self-sustaining culture of learning and innovation which would in turn help in building superior levels of employee engagement and constantly deliver breakthrough results.

Below are etched out a few benefits that ELO has to offer:

  1. Participants are assured of an uninterrupted development in their ability to learn and innovate.
  2. Team members are more enthusiastic and lively and are determined to actively contribute more value to their work.
  3. It develops leaders at all levels. It also develops people who are keener on taking initiatives and responsibilities.
  4. Participants are left with a feeling of pride in their organization and their individual role.
  5. It spreads happiness and well-being.

Pragati, being in the industry for long, is known for its training interventions. A number of big companies have benefited from the programs conducted by Pragati. The interventions usually focused on skill upgradation, increasing motivation levels of employees, etc. It was more about individual training and learning.

In every organization, there is a pool of creative energy which is uncharted. The need of the hour is to tap the buried areas of this energy and innovate. Another area the ELO focuses on is building innovation by graduating from encased energy to developed positive energy.

ELO is a sensible blend of training, coaching and action learning. It is a business related intervention propped up by pre and post intervention evaluations. The complete program is for one year of close partnership between PLI and your organization followed by mentoring for a two year period.

The rationale behind the ELO was that, there was a greater need to work systematically within an organization for overall improvement in three parameters – innovation, employee engagement and productivity breakthroughs. There was a growing need to work with the entire workforce rather than focusing more on individual training. Pragati felt that there is an increased focus on conversational process like innovation, integration, engagement and retention.

Also, in the present cost cutting scenario, the spotlight was on how to make an organization competitive and aggressive. This is a time when companies need to focus on training the workforce internally so that the entire workforce as a whole can together innovate and add value. ELO is a program which provides the kind of platform to employees to do it. Thus, ELO came into existence to mobilize the internal resources of the company so that they are prepared to face the economic dip. It takes into account the entire personnel and not just an individual.

Initial response to ELO

ELO, a mixture of training, coaching and action learning, was created by Pragati supported by a comprehensive research, inputs by industry biggies coupled with Pragati’s rich experience. It was launched a month back Pragati has been receiving a good number of enquiries asking about the value addition that ELO would have to their business. ELO endeavours to build high quality relationships within organizations to change mindsets and increase emotional bonding. ELO provides grounds for networking and problem solving together which is something organizations would benefit a great deal from.

As Henry Ford rightly said:

Coming together is the beginning.
Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
 

To know more about ELO please email us at

info@pragatileadership.com

 

Whats COOL?

At Pragati, we believe in being Cool. Creating Our Own Life, that is

What we have here is a small list of resources that we thought you might like to be directed to.

Cool Online Tools

1. Smooth

It’s simple, relaxing, free and SMOOTH!

Smooth is a relaxation software which helps you reduce computer stress in a jiffy. Reclaim yourself every 1 hour when at work. It makes your life trouble-free and tension free!

http://www.dissolvestressnow.com/index.html

2. Spiritual Healing

Love yourself, love your life!

As we know, spirituality is increasingly being a part of most of us these days. To satisfy your spiritual side we found some good reads. Check out “Valuable Resources”, “Healing Articles” and others!

http://www.spiritual-healing-secrets.com/index.html

Pragati Recommends

As we move along our journey, we find many inspiring gems – books, videos and other tools – that inspire us. We would love to share them with you

Videos

Free Hugs

With all the heartlessness and violence happening around the world, here is something that would make you smile, something that would inspire you, something that will touch your heart. Celebrate the true spirit of compassion and humanity!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

LOL (Laugh out Loud!)

Three men: a project manager, a software engineer, and a hardware engineer are working on a project.

About midweek they decide to walk up and down the beach during their lunch hour. Halfway up the beach, they stumbled upon a lamp. As they rub the lamp a genie appears and says "Normally I would grant you 3 wishes, but since there are 3 of you, I will grant you each one wish."

The hardware engineer went first. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living in a huge house in St. Thomas, with no money worries and surrounded by beautiful women who worship me." The genie granted him his wish and sent him on off to St. Thomas.

The software engineer went next. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living on a huge yacht cruising the Mediterranean, with no money worries and surrounded by beautiful women who worship me." The genie granted him his wish and sent him off to the Mediterranean.

Last, but not least, it was the project manager's turn. "And what would your wish be?" asked the genie.

"I want them both back after lunch" replied the project manager.

 

 

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