IMI New Delhi: Students learn Leadership lessons from industry leaders, HR Heads

International Management Institute (IMI) New Delhi conducted a Leadership Marathon on November 4, organized by distinguished Professor Dr. Asha Bhandarker under the various leadership cultivating seminars that the institute hosts on the campus.

The leadership marathon was a full day event on the lines of solving Live Case Studies and significant insights from industry stalwarts like, Mr. A D Burman, Head Learning and Development Maruti Suzuki, Mr. Himanshu Misra, Vice President & Head Compensation & Benefits, Axis Bank, Mr. S K Bose Head Learning and Development IOCL and Mr. R Anand Head HR HCL Technologies.

The full day session was divided in two halves, ranging from solving cases, industry insights and interactive sessions with the IMI Director General Debashis Chatterjee along with the esteemed speakers. The session included the industry stalwarts and discussed the role of a HR manager in an organization. There were important discussions on various Business problems like attrition, training.

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Design Thinking: Coming in a big way
The speakers laid stress on the fact that the Design Thinking Analytics is coming through in a big way. According to them there is a constant debate on the HRs role of either being business or supportive. They laid emphasis on the fact that todays generation practices an individualistic approach but should realize that intangible attributes like managing relationships and the ability to gel with the team.

HR: Future is good
With the world shifting from the manufacturing industries to a more corporate oriented approach, indeed, the HR world is thriving in this ever dynamic and VUCA world. This dynamism can be seen in the shift of context and continuum in the various organizations. The profession of HR has come a long way and is in cohorts with the organization due to the factor called human. But, one must always remember the human mind can never be replaced and that is why HR has a good future ahead.
International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi was established in 1981 in collaboration withIMIGeneva (now IMD, Lausanne).The institute has been ranked 1st in private B-schools in the country and 7th overall among management institutes in India by the Indian Ranking 2016, NIRF, MHRD. IMIhas also secured a commendable overall rank of 6th in the latest rankingreleasedby the NHRD (National Human Resources Development).

IMIis also Indias first corporate sponsored Business School with sponsorship from corporate houses like RPG Enterprises, Nestle, ITC, SAIL, Tata Chemicals, BOC and Williamson Magor etc. and various other international linkages with bodies like World Bank, UNDP, ILO, UNCTAD, Asian Productivity Organization etc. Besides this,IMIis one of the empanelled Institute of the Ministry of External Affairs, GOI, for special Commonwealth Assistance Programme under which the Institute gets the executive MBA students from various Afro Asian countries for its 15 months Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management.

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