Today we had another memorable and awesome stint with Mr.
Anil Sachdev under the ‘Self leadership’ Program. Our session took a start with
a brief description about the five layers of ‘Self-realization’ which was
discussed in the previous sessions of Self leadership. Today’s session covered
the ‘Power of Intellect’ and the related decision making framework. This
framework is really helpful as it helps a person to make the right decisions.
The research analysis done on this frame work suggests that every individual
should follow a certain set of processes while making any decisions. The few of
the processes are defined as:
·
What is the most important question?
·
We should collect meaningful and reliable
information in the context of question
·
Creative
alternatives should be defined
·
Logic for evaluation – Risk and Returns associated with the decision
·
Values and trade offs
·
Implementation of decision
The above mentioned list of processes would certainly help
in evaluating one’s decisions. Anil Sir also mentioned about the Upanishad
Ganga which is telecasted by Doordarshan every Sunday. This TV series
elaborated on the leadership skills of the inspired leaders of rich Indian
culture and her civilization. It also illustrated the sacred relationship
between a teacher (Guru) and the student. In the latter half of the session,
all the students formed a group and performed an activity in which we had to
identify our career objective based on decision framework. The options for career
objectives as follows:
·
Take up a lucrative job
·
To become an entrepreneur
·
Hold yourself for sometime
·
Do nothing
In the above mentioned activity we analyzed our course
of action and also did a self retrospection in order to acknowledge the goal of
our lives. This activity was followed by another group exercise in which a
matrix was drawn and each individual were asked to rate themselves. The drawn
matrix featured a comparison between the types of education received and kind
of upbringing experienced. There was also a discussion on the aspects of
creativity, the power of ideation fluency, originality of thinking and
associational fluency. Anil Sir also mentioned about a book ‘The Fourth Eye’ by
Pradip Khandwallla, this book helps an individual to overcome the fears of
life. In another activity, students were asked to realize their own fears. We had to rate oneself on the scale of 1 to
10 to different questions (which certainly gives us the fear quotient). The
learning I took from this exercise was to understand our own fear and the
comprehensive techniques to get rid of these unsaid fears. The students also
devoted their time to think about their mission and values of their lives with
a series of questions that surely helped each one of us to get a better clarity
on our future goals & objectives. In the final phase of this wonderful
session, we were extremely delighted to
get introduced with the wonderful concept of ‘Ladder of Inference’ based on the
Peter Sengi’s work. This concept can help people to create better understanding
of thinking process.
In the last and final session of Self Leadership
Series by Anil Sir, the students were asked to form teams and perform an
activity on discussion about ‘Courage’. On each table we have to cite the real
life examples. Few of questions asked among the teams were e.g. how the courage
stimulates? Each team came with their
different viewpoints like it courage comes from within our hearts and from the
cause we are fighting for, it can also come from the selflessness and courage
is not absence of fear but a realization / judgment of cause more important
than fear & many more. In the final half of the session, I really got
impressed by the video about Matthew Richard view on happiness wherein he
talked about attaining happiness. In this video Mr. Matthew mentioned an
extremely important point that how the happiness index in US has gone down over
the decades though the average family income has soared up. He also mentioned
the Gross happiness Index (GHI) which is being followed only in Bhutan.
In the end I would like to mention special thanks to
Anil Sir who took out his valuable time for us from his busy schedule. His
teaching will take us ahead in our lives not just in corporate part of our life
but also in help us in leading a meaningful life.
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