Radical Inner Change: Instituting Wellbeing in Organizations 
Last date for registration: 28 Jan, 2018
End Date : 09 Feb, 2018
Early Bird Discount Date : 17 Jan, 2018
Increasingly people are looking for workplaces that provide for growth, purpose and fun. While wellbeing is a wider concept than this, it is a part of being able to attract and retain people. The purpose which the organization provides needs to align sufficiently enough with person’s own purpose for both to thrive. Without this, neither are able to provide the necessary ingredients a flourishing organizational relationship needs - engagement, performance, productivity and retention.
Organisations are becoming aware that to retain their best talent and to work in collaboration with them, organizations need to focus on how people are faring at times of change and increasing pressures. Organizations are also realizing that they need to expand their focus to look at aspects like identity, meaning, purpose, self-expression and creative outputs.
Managers and leaders alike need to be aware of their own contribution to organizational wellbeing and have awareness of their own effects on how people perceive the organization. One cannot lead effectively without being healthy and balanced. Producing conducive environments enables true engagement - working with passion and connections. Working from a growth perspective also means employing more positive responses to enable everyone to grow.
Wellbeing in general covers the following areas: career, financial, physical, mental and psychological, community and social. In this programme we focus on physical, mental and psychological within the community which here refers to the organization. While career and financial are equally important areas, this course is focusing on self-awareness, growth, and contribution. We look at health and relationships (inside and outside), community, environment (in a broad sense), security and safety, growth and contribution.
What promotes wellbeing? The ability to be flexible, open and at the same time be aware of one’s boundaries and work on them when necessary. This includes being mindful, open to suggestions, and ability to be present, as well as being able to draw boundaries, be firm and recognize stressors. Mindfulness as a noun means quality of states of mind or it can refer to certain practices termed as mindful. In this programme, we use mindfulness in both senses as an umbrella term for various approaches, practices and states of mind-body.
What decreases wellbeing? One of the main reasons is stress. While it is part of life, there is a significant difference between being caught into a long term stress or just having a short stressful moment, such as an unusual traffic jam when going to work. The longer stress is present, the more it affects the mind and body – and through people, the organization. This means lowered capabilities in decision making, learning and memory as long as stress is on (and even beyond). While there is good stress and bad stress, it is usually the bad one that we focus on, while both are in different ways important. Stress is triggered by ambiguity, unclarity, perceptions, gaps between what is possible and what is not, just to name a few.
In this programme, we develop ways to recognize wellbeing, practices to avoid overburdening oneself and the organisation and how to build better practices by becoming aware of oneself and one’s responses. Finally, we also introduce participants to different mindfulness practices that they can use in order to manage stress and stressful situations.
We welcome you to join the journey!
The objectives include
- understanding different facets of wellbeing in organizations;
- becoming more familiar with signs and symptoms of both individual and organisational stress;
- being able to avoid getting into stressful mind-set by introducing mindfulness practices;
- being able to introduce different practices that minimize stressful situations and introduce more open and positive alternatives;
- developing ways through which you can introduce better practices in your own organization.
-learn how to create new pathways and rituals that can pave the way for greater wellbeing while at work.
Wellbeing: what is it or is not?
Recognizing wellbeing
Myths of wellbeing
Managerial life and self-awareness
Organisational effects of wellbeing
Life-Balance and learning
Keeping stress at bay
What is mindfulness? How does mindfulness help?
Introduction to mindfulness cultivating practices in everyday live
This programme combines lectures, exercises, experiential practices, interactive sessions, peer-to-peer interaction and group work.
Executives in managerial role, practitioners, entrepreneurs, teachers and leaders of educational institutions.
Sari S. A. Mattila
Dr Sari Mattila received her Ph.D. degree from Tampere University of Technology in the field of Management and OB/HR after an integrated Master's Degree in Philosophy from the University of Joensuu (now part of the University of Eastern Finland). She has previously taught at IIM-A, Institute of Management, Nirma University, Flame School of Business, and CEPT in India besides Tampere University of Technology and University of Turku in Finland. Her topics have included Organisational Behaviour, Ethics, business Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility, Mentoring and Coaching, Socratic Dialogues, and Indian Values.
Sari’s current research interests include comparative study of management dynamics and dynamism in Finland and India; management styles and practices of woman entrepreneurs; critical citizenship; and wisdom, body and knowing in organisations. She is interested in FiloCafes, Socratic Dialogue and its applications, group dynamics, mindfulness, organisational chaos, psychosocial realities and applications of fiction in real life (and vice versa). Before her academic career, she has worked in industry in various positions of responsibility. Prior to that she was into competitive professional horseback riding. She has herself been doing mindfulness practices as part of her interest in experiential learning, counselling and therapy, yoga, mindfulness and vipassana.
Ramya Ranganathan
Dr. Ramya Ranganathan is an Electrical, Electronics, and Communications engineer from IIT Madras and holds a PGDM (MBA) from IIM Ahmedabad. Ramya worked in the corporate world with blue chip companies like ICICI, Infosys and Citibank, before she embarked on a quest to learn how she could help people (and herself) flourish better at work. As part of understanding the person-work relationship, Ramya studied organizational behavior and work-psychology at London Business School and she has a Masters of Research as well as a Doctorate in Management from London Business School.
Dr. Ranganathan teaches Post Graduate, Doctoral and Executive Courses on Organizational Behavior, Crafting Careers, Aligning Personal Values and Goals, Managing Inner Worlds, Positive Psychology, Nurturing Creativity and Excellence, Intrinsic Motivation, Emotional Intelligence, Managing Stress and Personal Energy. Other than this, she has taught in several customized workshops for public sector as well as private sector clients like NHPC, Atlas Copco India Ltd., GAIL, Pernod Ricard, Novo Nordisk, ISRO, Hindustan Lever, etc.
She has previously held the positions of Programme Director, Management Programme for Women Entrepreneurs and the Programme Director, Management Programme for Entrepreneurs and Family Business at IIM Bangalore.
Some of Ramya’s landmark courses and workshops are ‘Personal Values, Goals and Career Options’, ‘Positive Psychology and Positive Organizational Scholarship’, ‘Nurturing Creativity and Excellence’, ‘Leading with Joy’, ‘Being a Learner’, ‘Managing Emotions’ and ‘Leveraging Strengths’. Ramya has dedicated her life to helping people find joy and meaning through their work and has touched over 5000 participants through various programmes and has received excellent feedback from them with her courses consistently being rated among the top courses at IIM Bangalore. Her sessions have been acknowledged for the authenticity and sincerity she brings to her course content by virtue of only including strategies and tools that she has herself experimented with. Her style of teaching has also been appreciated for blending intellectual left brained logic with intuitive right brained reflection. Ramya attributes this to her mix of being trained in engineering and psychology.
Her current research is in the areas of personal values and attitudes, personality theories, flow, joy and creativity in work, multiple identities, personal growth: eastern and western approaches, illusion of control, locus of control and locus of causality, personal mission and career choices, conflict and emotions in small groups and teams, individual and group decision making, corporate social responsibility, and social entrepreneurship.
Programme Fee and Payment
INR 76,000/- Residential (+ Applicable GST) per person for participants from India and its equivalent in US Dollars for participants from other countries.
The participants are required to work on assignments, cases and prepare for the classes the next day during the programme days. The programme therefore has been structured as a residential programme. Non-residential option is not available.
Early Bird Discount
Nominations received with payments on or before 17-Jan-18 will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 10%.
- Early Bird Fee (Residential) INR 68,400/-(+ Applicable GST)
Please Note:
All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme director. Joining Instructions will be sent to the selected candidates 10 days prior the start of the programme. Kindly do not make your travel plans unless you receive the letter from IIMB.
A certificate of participation will be awarded to the participants by IIMB.
- The programme fee should be received by the Executive Education Office before the programme commencement date.
- In case of cancellations, the fee will be refunded only if a request is received at least 15 days prior to the start of the programme.
- If a nomination is not accepted, the fee will be refunded to the person/ organisation concerned.