Two Days Leadership Training Programme

The Two Days Leadership Training Camp was organized by M. R. Pai Foundation, Mumbai jointly with the Forum of Free Enterprise, Mumbai at the Kaveri College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Pune under Kaveri Skill Development Cell on 29 and 30 September 2022. The resource persons for the training camp were Mr. Rajiv Kumar Luv and Mr. Sachin Kamath.

The compeering for inauguration was done by Rohan Salunke, student of SY BA and felicitations of both the resource persons were done by Dr. Ashok Agrawal, Principal, Kaveri College.For the further sessions of the training camp the total participants were divided into two groups by the resource persons. Total 6 sessions were conducted parallel for two groups in two days by both the resource persons.
Following three sessions were conducted by Mr. Rajiv Kumar Luv:
1. Setting and Achieving Goals
2. The Power of Habits
3. Coming Together – A beginning
In the session ‘Setting and Achieving Goals’ Mr. Luv explained about how to set the goals and how to achieve it successfully, with this he also focused on what and how the goals should be. He added that goals should be personal, specific, visible, measurable, exciting and must be time bound. He told about different techniques that help achieve goals.In his next session on ‘The Power of Habits’, Mr. Luv explained the concept of good habits and bad habits. He made students write their own bad habits, and announce it to the participants. Very common and day to day examples were given by him so that students can easily relate to the situation. He discussed major issues like over-thinking etc. Most of the students find this topic helpful. He advised to make the habits easy to start, doing those habits for at least 2 minutes every day, and then
those become easier to continue. Habits should be built to be attractive, easy and satisfying. And to break a habit, it should be made invisible, unattractive, difficult and unsatisfying. Mr. Luv shared tips on how to replace old routines with new one. He also put some light on the topic of positive affirmations. He suggested that one should keep adding new positive habits.
In his third session on ‘Coming Together – A beginning’, Mr. Luv explained the concept of teamwork by various activities like ‘balancing the pipe’ game, where students were in a group to hold a pipe in a team. He explained the meaning of coming together to achieve some big targets through an activity involving teamwork. He advised that each member should learn from his/her mistake and should share information with each other freely. Team members should trust and inspire each other and should celebrate their small success. Members should motivate each other to achieve the goals of the team. This session was very helpful for the students as they learned and enjoyed the various new concepts and terms.

The following three sessions were conducted by Mr. Sachin Kamath:
1. Sharpening Vital skills
2. Effective communication
3. Understanding Self & Others
In the session ‘Sharpening Vital skills’, Mr. Kamath explained about the importance of self-reliance and capability and honing potentials of self. He mentioned that self development should start and end with the individual being completely responsible for the same. In that, soft skills like communication, relationship building, self awareness, emotional capabilities and good lifestyle were pinpointed. It was an interactive session which grabbed the attention of all the students present in the session. In session ‘Effective communication’, Mr. Kamath explained the concept of communication by stating that ‘communication is the message that the receiver understands rather than what the sender conveys’. He conducted an activity to show why communication is important and how it can be done effectively to get better output. He discussed about how to manage people in life while narrating different personality traits in detail.
In the session ‘Understanding Self & Others’, Mr. Kamath explained about group efforts and coordination in conjunction with knowing oneself and the role of others effectively. He also mentioned a self-reflection theory which is the ‘Johari window’ which highlights various aspects of self that cover the ‘open self’, ‘blind self’, ‘hidden self’ and the ‘known self’. It gave a chunk for the students to chew on and understand their positioning in various dimensions of their life.
Finally various assignments and exercises were given by both experts to students. Total 72 students completed the training camp successfully. There were few students from Shahu College, Pune.