Happiness & Leadership @Work

An intent presentation for

Caring Corporates

M.K.Ramanujam

Global Organization for Divinity, India/USA/Australia

mramanuj@gmail.com/LinkedIn:Ramanujam MkVersion : Jun2011

The Need…

• In 2020 –World Health Organization report says

– Depression would be next to Heart diseases in

the Global burden of health challenges

~25% depressed in USA / EU

< 30% are deeply happy

Source Happy for No Reason , BY MARCI SHIMOFF WITH CAROL KLINE · FREE PRESS © 2008 · 320 PAGES

Corporate Programs…

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~100 corporates

India, USA, ASEAN, Middle

East, Australia, Nigeria.

~200 Educational institutions

India, ASEAN, Middle

East, Nigeria, UK, USA, Australia

Where do the Proceeds to go?

GOD India Trust works towards

Universal Peace, Love and

Harmony amongst people of all

walks of life.

It strives to spread the spirit of ‘Inner

Transformation’ through various

means in rural and urban areas esp.

in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala,

Andhrapradesh & Maharastra –

Gnana Daanam.

To support this, many programs for

uplift of socially and economically

poor are undertaken –

Anna Daanam, etc.

Support for education – distributing

free note books, supporting

teacher’s salary for Rural govt.

schools etc. are also undertaken –

Vidya daanam

Happiness amongst challenges

Dharavi, Mumbai - Hindi

Young Students

Madurai

Note books to

poor, Ambai

Free Med

Camp Sivakasi

Anna Daanam

Awareness

Campaign

General Approach for Training

• Each Training session is tailor-made to suit participants'

needs

• A meeting with stake holder to clarify expectations of

Leadership precedes the training delivery

• Training is open and informal

• Training is flexible as it progresses to address the

participants’ needs, but would be kept within a base structure.

• The trainer learns while he teaches… This is the basic

paradigm of all the trainings delivered.

• No Dogmas, Religion neutral

• STARTS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICAL

APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES LEARNT

Workshop Model

• Typical Strength for max effectiveness : 20 pax

– 4 hours, interactive all through

– 2 breaks (1 tea / one bio break)

– Team learning (teams grouped with a little help

from HR)

• Requirements:

– A quiet room

– Multimedia projector

– Flip chart with marker pens.

Workshop Contents – Happiness@Work(4 hours)

• Paradigm

– We see things as we are and not as things are…

• Human Responsibility

– Reaction Vs. Response

– Responsibility and Accountability

• Mind and its power

– Efficiency of the ‘Mind’ Factory

• Key pillars of Happiness (1 of 4 dealt with in detail)

– Acceptance

– Attention

– Gratitude

– Learned Optimism

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Participants’ Speak

I got value out of the

session and you

could tell that

Ram is passionate

and honest about

sharing his positive

messages and that's

key in a

speaker/presenter –

Victoria Daniels, GE , USA

It was really good, a paradigmshift in our thought &approach –LathaShree,Cognizant,Bengaluru

The speaker , the topic, its fabulous… hope to have more and a longer seminar in future…Sean Lu, IBM, USA

Grateful thanks to Ms.Poornima for the excellent programme she conducted. All attendees were extremely happy with it. Thanks a million...

Durgesh Chandavarkar, Standard Greases, Mumbai

Other Offerings for Corporates (4 hours each)

Transformational Leadership@Work

Specifically designed for Middle

management, to show how to

influence from middle to effect overall

improvement in organization. TL for

middle management.

Conflict Management@Work

The appreciation and Acceptance of

Conflict and various Conflict

Management styles in Practice.

Managing Inner conflicts to be better

able to manage External conflicts shall

also be discussed.

Statistical Thinking@Work

Statistical Thinking actually has almost

very little to do with statistics, but more to

do with Management of Processes. It fills

the important gap of ‘Appreciating and

Managing Variation’ in all process. A

simple, yet neglected part of Managing

Processes…

Conflict Management – 4 hours

• The ‘Paradigm’

• Mirror principle

• Responsibility with respect to ‘Conflicts’

• Acceptance of Conflict as part of life

• Conflict can be made favorable if resolved properly

• 4 conflict management styles

– Assertive, Aggressive, Passive, Passive – indirect

• Fundamentals of Assertion

• Assertive Communication

– Fact, Interpretation, Feelinfs, Consequence, Intention

• Win-Win Approach – Its paradigm, Principle and Practice

Transformational Leadership – 4 hours

• Reactionary Vs Responsible Leadership

• Mirror Principle and its Leadership application

• Managing and Leading – the two paradigms

• Middle level management / Leadership

– Leading across

– Leading upward

– Leading dwonward

• 4 dimensions of Transformational Leadership

• The Fine art of LISTENING

Statistical Thinking for Business Leaders – 4 hours

THIS has nothing to do with Statistics or Maths!

This is for any type of process / Business

• Problems with pure ‘intuitive’ thinking

• Issues with ‘Improvement’ targets and how to deal

with them

• 3 principles of Statistical thinking

– Process mindset

– Recognizing and Realizing Variation

– Managing Variation

• Looking at Problems – The Leader’s way!

Many Many Thanks for your understanding and

kind patronage….

M.K.Ramanujam

+91 98407 43343

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Volunteer - GOD

India / USA / Australia

“Every moment expended,, every paisa

spent towards a selfless cause to

enhance Happiness of Human

kind, returns multifold back…”

H H Maharanyam

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji