Pathway to Excellence

“Your core values are your deciding factors for success.”~Tobi Delly

About

The seminar on ‘Pathway to Excellence’ was held on 19th January 2019 for the core group of participants within the University Leadership. It was inspired by the path-breaking book “In Search of Excellence” written by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman. The seminar aimed to convey a strong message that ‘Excellence is a continuous journey and not a destination’, and thus the presentation highlighted effective strategies to ‘Institutionalize Excellence’.

The seminar was extended to cover other leaders at Christ and it had to be extended to include two additional cohorts of participants of leaders; so that they could also be trained on the 'Pathway to Excellence ensuring that all leaders at Christ - Deans, HOD's, Coordinators, Administrative heads and Managers covered to be trained.

Facilitated By

The speaker, Mr. Sudhakar Shenoy, has over 30 years of experience in varied fields such as Manufacturing, IT, Business Strategy, Leadership, General Management, and Consulting. He is renowned for his capability to harness technology for competitive advantage for various business verticals, and for leading workshops on Business Strategy and Innovation for multinational companies.

Shenoy is a trained assessor on various quality standards including ISO, EFQM, and CMMI, and has participated and also led several executive exchange education programs conducted by leading business schools in India and abroad. He is an assessor for identifying and grooming high potential leaders. He is a visiting faculty at IIM Bangalore. Mr. Shenoy guided Christ (Deemed to be University) team for formulating Strategic Plan 2018-23, which is based on Vijay Govindarajan’s book “Three Box Concept for Strategy”.

Objectives

How to achieve Excellence.
Environment for nurturing Excellence.

Hardware - Infrastructure, Systems and Procedures, Technologies.
Software – Is mainly about Attitude and Culture

-->People: Attitude, Behavior, Interpersonal skills, Empathy.

-->Culture – Respect for individual and social norms.

Case Studies in Corporate and NGOs.
Align with Mission and Core Values.
Regular assessment and renewal.

Course of The Seminar

The session commenced with Mr. Shenoy giving a brief description of the term ‘Excellence’ and why excellence is a necessity for organizations. Excellent organizations achieve and sustain outstanding levels of performance that meet or exceed the expectations of all their stakeholders and thus excellence is a quality that is extremely essential to all organizations. He then introduced the EFQM model of Excellence and further explained why it is important to use that model as a foundation to build excellence.

Shenoy emphasized that technology and processes cannot make the dream of institutionalizing excellence and ultimately help organizations grow until the people who engage in those activities are motivated and committed to their work. Through his power-packed presentation and several motivational videos, Mr. Sudhakar Shenoy induced a passion for excellence in every member of the audience.

Excellence is definitely about not stagnating but innovating, reinventing, and ensuring you have dynamics up to date systems and processes in place for leadership within the organization to ensure it is there for its people.

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