Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Enactus Leadership Training – A day spent well!


In 1962, on the thirtieth anniversary of the first flight of Air India, JRD Tata re-enacted the original Bombay – Karachi flight in a vintage Airplane. He had taken this flight, he said, “… to remind his employees that the great airline we serve today was built from the smallest of beginnings, with little more to sustain it than the Love, the Sweat and the Devotion of those who worked for it.”

Tata’s have always been known in our country for their strong morals and humility. These values are still instilled in the current leadership of this global conglomerate. At the Enactus Leadership Training, we had the fortune to meet Mr. Mukund Rajan, who is in every way an embodiment of the values that Tata’s stand for. He is the Brand Custodian, Group Spokesperson and Chief Ethics officer of Tata Sons Ltd. He is also a great orator and listening to him has empowered us in many ways.

 

Later we did a case study discussion on a visual impairment case, moderated by Ms. Shruti Sharma, GM – Enactus India. She explained the Enactus model and Ideology with the help of this case with admirable ease. The case was in fact a real project implemented by Technical University of Munich, Germany, who were Enactus World Cup 2013 winners. Just a glimpse of the world winners gave us great insights into entrepreneurial possibilities and motivated us to work harder for our own projects. More details of their extraordinary project can be found here:


Following this was Charulata R K, who enlightened us on Branding and Leadership. It was fun when she handed out books to people who answered her questions on analogies of Brands and Celebrities. Like elsewhere, SIMSR was on the forefront in winning books.

The session ended with an impromptu talk by Dr. Arup Basu who is the president – New Businesses and Innovation at Tata Chemicals Limited. It was interesting to know some facts about products such as Tata Salt which are ingrained in our daily lives in ways that we don’t even realize their existence.


All in all this training was an amazing experience that each of us Enactus members would treasure for life!

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