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WHAT WILL YOU LEARN TODAY?

• CEO’s Role• Team Culture.• Work Culture.• Leadership and Management.• Microsoft Student Partners.• Myths about Microsoft .

CEO

• Satya Nadella , Born Hyderabad.• Joined Microsoft in 1992.• Became Exec Vice President in 2011.• Became CEO in 2014 , Succeeding Steve

Ballmer.

CEO

• Satya Nadella , Born Hyderabad.• Joined Microsoft in 1992.• Became Exec Vice President in 2011.• Became CEO in 2014 , Succeeding

Steve Ballmer.

1. Communicated his personal vision.

2. Reported progress towards organizing goals.

3. Mentioned future aspects of their target

First Address To Employees

1. Manages Time to meet not only customers & partners , but also employees

2. Usually communicates via Emails , events. 3. In his Memo , he asked them to attend a Q&A event.

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TEAM CULTURET – TogetherE – EveryoneA – AchievesM – More

The Microsoft Way

•Create a Team-Oriented Organization•  Assign Serious Team Goals•Encourage Informal Teams•Cross-Train Employees•Provide Team Resources

How Microsoft nurtures team culture?

1. Start with the core ideas.2. Develop leadership skills.3. Train for continuous improvement.4. Address the human element of quality.5. Tackle complex issues collaboratively.6. Empower employees' ideas.7. Listen and respond to feedback.

“Finally, every team across Microsoft must find ways to simplify and move faster, more efficiently.”

- Satya Nadella(CEO, Microsoft)

Work Culture

Diversity & Inclusion

Excellence & Leadership

Others…• Individual• Family• Environment• Competition etc.

Leadership and ManagementLeadership is said to be everything and nothing.

It is everything because it can be found everywhere in organizations, not just at the top. Leadership is everything because it is infused in all that we do; it is not sacred. Because leadership is based on action, it emerges as a function of participation and interaction.

Leadership is nothing in the sense that it seems impossible to define completely. Decades of scientific study have yet to yield a single definition that fully captures the nature of leadership, much less articulate a definitive approach to developing it.

Regardless of the degree to which the essence of leadership can be captured in a definition, organizations believe in its importance. A recent article on America’s most admired companies in Fortune magazine attributed the success of those companies bestowed with a “most admired” status to their leadership. There is an emerging consensus that leadership needs to be developed intentionally within companies.

Methods employed by Microsoft to increase leadership skillsFormal programs:• The backbone of most leadership development systems is the formal

program. At minimum, a formal program consists of a classroom seminar covering basic theories and principles of leadership. The classroom is the most frequent delivery method with approximately 85 percent of companies using this venue to engage in leadership development.

• Formal programs typically last several days (three to five is usual) and tend to be delivered in an off-site location. The cost of developing a one-week in-house leadership development program is expensive, ranging from $75,000 to $242,000 plus delivery costs of an extra $20,000 to $100,000(Microsoft estimates)

360-degree feedback:• 360-degree feedback, multi-source feedback, and multi-rater feedback are all

terms used to describe this method of systematically collecting perceptions of a manager’s performance from different viewpoints.

• Rating sources typically include peers, direct reports, supervisors, and multiple stakeholders outside the organization (e.g., customers and suppliers). An advantage of such intense, comprehensive scrutiny is that a more complete and accurate picture of an individual’s performance is obtained.

• As a recent Fortune article stated, “What your boss, your peers, and your subordinates really think of you may sting, but facing the truth can also make you a better manager”

Executive Coaching:• According to experts in the field, executive coaching is “a practical, goal-

focused form of personal, one-on-one learning” .

• Coaching may be used to improve individual performance, enhance a career, or work through organizational issues such as change initiatives. It tends to be a relatively short-term activity aimed at improving specific leadership competencies or solving specific problems.

• Given that the cost of executive coaching(Microsoft Statistics) from an external consultant ranges from $1,500 for a single day to more than $100,000 for a multi-year program (for a single executive), it is understandable why most firms prefer to keep this as short-term as possible.

Network:• As a way of breaking down functional silos, some organizations include development

activities aimed at fostering broader individual networks. An important goal of networking initiatives is to develop leaders beyond merely knowing what and knowing how, to knowing who in terms of problem-solving resources.

• Leadership Institute uses action-learning projects with company-specific problems as the core content in its development seminars. The project work is done in cross-organization teams as a way of promoting greater awareness of capabilities and cross-business assessment of opportunities.

• Another type of networking involves the interaction of groups of managers and executives who have common training or job experiences. These groups meet regularly over lunches or through electronic dialogue to share their mutual challenges and opportunities, with a goal of applying their learning on an informal, ongoing basis.

Student PartnersMicrosoft

What is Microsoft Student Partner?

• Microsoft Student Partner is an international annual organized event of students who are chosen on various criteria and aspects of quality by the Microsoft Corporation.

• Microsoft Student Ambassadors and Associates communicate with their respective institutes and share the companies mission and vision in front of the people.

• Microsoft Interns are the currently studying Students who get to learn at Microsoft.

MSP’s are the Game Changers.

• Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) are social and friendly students who like to meet new people.

As a MSP you will :-

• build apps and demos• demonstrate the newest technologies and host tech events on your campus• acquire the tools and training to lead technology discussions on your campus• connect with like-minded students and faculty around the world

Top 4 Myths about Microsoft

Let’s start the countdown …!!!

4. Microsoft doesn’t care about security .

• The backdoor vulnerabilities allow malicious hackers to gain access to unprotected computers, turning them into unwitting bots that spread viruses and worms to even more computers.• Microsoft employs some of the sharpest minds in the field of cyber

security.• Hackers prefer windows as target due to its penetration in the market.

3. Microsoft doesn’t discount its software .

• While it's true that there's no negotiation when it comes to buying Microsoft software, the company does offer significant discounts to education, government, and volume licensing customers.• If Microsoft has their druthers, they'll never sell software again, and

it'll just be software + services, where you're renting their software instead of buying it

2. Microsoft isn’t innovative.• Microsoft has a well-deserved reputation in software circles for being

technologically derivative. In other words, Microsoft has borrowed or bought every good idea it's ever had.• The Harvard Business Institute pinpointed the company's innovative

approach to its intellectual property, the idea of selling software and hardware separately .

1. Bill Gates is Evil.• Gates may be guilty of many underhanded businesses tactics, but as a

philanthropist, he's poised to become the greatest giver in the history of the world .• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has already invested tens of

billions of dollars toward the eradication of disease and poverty in developing nations and eventually will give away all of Gates' wealth. How evil could that be?

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