F.O.O.L (Fun oriented outdoor learning)
Team Building Programme with a difference

Successful companies invariably have successful teams. 

Teams are built around trust & respect.  Teams cannot be built without creating a seamless understanding between the members.  This program is aimed at building teams with outdoor activities centered on fun and frolic!  Teams are built around mutual trust and respect.
The games and activities are designed to bring out mutual respect for talent creativity, team spirit and admiration for self and others. This program will be conducted in lush green resorts.  Often we work with people without relating to them, often without knowing their strengths and weaknesses, often without disclosing too much about our own self.

Objective
Help everyone to understand their own strengths and weaknesses.
To appreciate that modern business requires collaboration amongst the employees to flourish.
To have loads of fun and learn intricacies of working in teams

Imagine going away to a very scenic place where you can wind; let your hair down, relax and most importantly, have fun!  The whole workshop is designed to encourage creative activities and there are no classroom lectures and no projectors! The subtle substance of learning comes through by being yourself, discovering yourself and discovering your friends.  Self-actualization comes through observing own behavior in the group.

Methodology
Only Games and exercises.
Followed by Group activities.
No boring lectures.
No Power Point Presentations

Duration

This is a two-day program.  A one-day version of the program can also be conducted.  Ideal team size will be 25-30 participants for a batch.  This program is useful for an organization aiming to be successful, profitable and efficient!  In other words, no matter what your organization does, manufacturing, processing, education etc., you cannot dream to be successful unless every one in your organization contributes.

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Leadership Development

The program focuses on developing people management skills, understanding the effectiveness of delegation, developing subordinates – “from doer to getting things done” and power of positive thinking. The program shows you the way the world leaders have adopted some simple yet, effective methods to achieve success in whatever field they chose. You too can do so by putting into action the five leadership practices:

Objective
Modeling the way
Inspiring a shared vision
Challenging the process
Enabling others to act
Encouraging the heart

Extensive research and analysis has shown that there are five practices common to all great leaders. The essence of this research has enable thousands of persons to get insight and put these practices to achieve excellence in leadership qualities. These practices, when put to use, increase trust, efficiency and productivity, whether in the boardroom, factory, office environment or in society.

Methodology
Powerful videos
Group Activities
Group Exercises
Games
Action Planning

Duration
This is a two-day program. A one-day version of the pogram can also be conducted. Ideal team size will be 15-20 participants for a batch. This program is useful for an organization aiming to be successful, profitable and efficient! In other words, no matter what your organization does, manufacturing, processing, education etc.,

You cannot dream to be successful unless you clearly define the leadership roles that has to be played by the key personnel in your organization

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Management Skills for Supervisors

Management Skills for Supervisors equips you with proven supervisory techniques that you can put into action immediately…plus the tools savvy supervisors use to plan, organize, communicate and monitor effectively in every situation. Don’t miss this opportunity to examine your daily responsibilities outside of the office, in the company of your peers, to leverage both your hard skills and your people skills to meet your new challenges with confidence, respect and power.

Programme Schedule
· Ways to give constructive criticism
· Motivational techniques
· Coping with difficult employees
· Effectively supervising different personalities
· Embracing your new role
· Filling your communication skills toolbox
· Coaching for high-quality performance
· Creating a motivational environment

Duration
The duration of this programme is one-day.

Who should attend?
Ideal candidates are new supervisors with one to two years of supervisory experience. This course is also well suited to process, production, manufacturing and operations supervisor.

Methodology
Role Plays
Group Discussions
Experiential videos
Activities and games
Action Plan for implementation of learning

How will they benefit?

Build your supervisory skills and command respect
Develop better conflict management skills
Learn a six-step coaching model and create an action plan
Understand how to apply the most appropriate supervisory style to individuals and situations

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Managing Stress through Yoga

In today’s world where meeting deadlines, achieving targets and even just completing a day’s job becomes stressful, it is inevitable, that professional’s will have to find out a way of overcoming them. Contrary to the beliefs, stress is not harmful!! Stress is desirable; without stress there will be no motivation and achievement. However, a smart professional will just know how to control it and make use of it.

There are two types of instinctive stress response that are important to how we understand stress and stress management: the short-term “Fight-or-Flight” response and the long-term “General Adaptation Syndrome”. The first is a basic survival instinct, while the second is a long-term effect of exposure to stress.

This programme will help you to:

Plumb the hidden dimensions of the mind tap the latent potential. Acquire the power to perform with enhanced efficiency Reduce stress levels and eliminate health hazards Promote positive health and reduce sick time Achieve emotional balance and improve interpersonal relationships

Excessive stress can lead to psychosomatic ailments and unmanaged stress has been identified as contributory factor in various ailments like Hypertension, Ischaemic Heart Disease, Insomnia and Tension Headache. Stress has been shown to aggravate a host of other ailments like Hyper Acidity, Peptic Ulcer, Bronchial Asthma, Nasal Allergy, Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus and Arthritis, to name a few. Furthermore, excessive stress has been shown to reduce efficiency at work and impair social relations. Yoga, the age-old Science of Mind has very effective answers to the problem of stress. MASTRY is the condensation of the concepts and practices of Yoga specifically designed for managing stress.

Balancing Meditation
The core of MASTRY, Balancing Meditation consists of certain simple and effective Yogic Techniques specifically designed for managing stress. It is built around a scheme of three different Relaxation Techniques, each one of which operates at a different level. The Relaxation Techniques are complemented with practices designed to make them very effective. The components include Asanas, Nada Anusandhana, elements of Pranayama and Meditation. The simplicity of Balancing Meditation ensures that people of any age can practice easily.

Theory Sessions
1. Understanding Stress – The Physiological perspective
2. Understanding Stress – Psychological & Philosophical perspectives
3. Yoga as answer to the challenge of Stress
4. A scientific appraisal of Yogic techniques in context
5. Effective approach to Stress Management
6. Achieve thru’ MASTRY:
7. Improved organizational functioning
8. Self-elevation – Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social and Spiritual.

Practice sessions
1. Energizer – A system of specially designed, versatile, minimally demanding exercises that tones up metabolism, improves circulation, helps in managing Obesity, High Cholesterol, lowering High BP and in providing ‘Stress Inoculation.’
2. Integrated Breathing & Stretching. – A compendium of multi-system, rejuvenating movements synchronized with proper breathing patterns, which helps in relieving bodily distress and in managing mental stress.
3. Pranayama – A selection of specially adapted practices, which have a beneficial effect on all aspects of Body-Mind functioning.
4. Relaxation Techniques.

Dress
Gents: Kurta pyjama/jogging or other comfortable fitting dress
Ladies: Salwar Kameez or jogging dress

Trainer’s Profile

Sri Sridhar Deshmukh is a self made-man. He graduated with Sociology, Economics, and English but did not pursue further formal studies because he was dissatisfied with the prevailing system. Instead, he took to experiential learning of his own, during the course of which he also made a study of Allopathic Medicine, Anatomy & Physiology, Pharmacology, Physics and Cosmology besides Psychology and Philosophical Literature. He was in business for a decade, and has voluntarily withdrawn from it and made a vocation of teaching. In areas where there are no established norms for certification, his acceptability as a faculty is due to a synthesis of his experiences, the techniques he has evolved, and his direct perceptual insights.

He has conducted orientation courses in Therapeutic Yoga for doctors besides training over a hundred yoga and alternative therapists. He has also conducted over two hundred workshops on Stress Management as well as Preventive Management of Coronary Heart Disease for corporate executives and professionals.

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Personality Development

Personal effectiveness is a result of not just one thing, but of a combination of factors which all impact upon each other.This Personality Development training course is designed for those who seek to further develop the key skills and techniques needed to build personal impact, influence and effectiveness in dealings with others.

One-day Programme
Managing Time & Priorities
Developing Assertiveness
Handling Conflict & ‘Difficult’ People
Understanding Personal Style
Influencing Skills Building
Personal Profile and Impact
Action Planning

Methodology
Role Plays
Group Discussions
Activities and games
Action Plan for implementation of learning

Programme Schedule

· Analyze their current effectiveness in terms of time and priority management.
· Identify appropriate situations and techniques for assertive communication.
· Confidently deal with conflict situations and ‘difficult’ people.
· Consider the most appropriate Influencing style(s) to achieve positive results.
· Recognize the factors that contribute to building personal profile and impact.
· Develop a personal action plan to enhance personal effectiveness at
· Analyze their current effectiveness in terms of time and priority management.
Identify appropriate situations and techniques for assertive communication.

This course will be beneficial for those who

· Want to improve their productivity
· Need to manage their time and priorities more effectively.
· Find it sometimes difficult to refuse requests and say ‘No’.
· Need to learn how to manage their emotions more effectively.
· Want to build their confidence in dealing with ‘difficult’ people.
· Need to persuade and influence others in order to achieve results.

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