Unleashing the Corporate Athlete in You (Live Online Programme) 
Last date for registration: 27 Aug, 2021 (Tentative)
End Date : 10 Sep, 2021 (Tentative)
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The programme Unleashing the Corporate Athlete in You is a capability enhancement programme for leaders and managers based on perspectives and lessons learnt from the world of sports. World class athletes and sportsperson deliver consistent high performance under pressures of expectations and competition. Such high performance is a result of systematic development of their physical, emotional and cognitive systems within the context of their particular sports. Although the context is different for leaders and managers working in corporations, they are also expected to deliver consistent high performance under pressure. Therefore, it comes as no surprise when research indicated that high performers in organizations exhibit many traits that are common with world class athletes such as carefully choosing goals that stretch but are realistic, developing mental toughness so that one can be resilient in the face of adversity and finally achieving ideal performance state.
This programme will focus on three key aspects of capability development as follows:
Goal setting – How can one adapt a balanced approach to goal setting by understanding the technical, tactical and strategic aspects of professional and personal goals? How does one put goals into practice and how to overcome the typical challenges that you would encounter while trying to stick to your goals? Leadership research indicates that those people with clearly defined goals are significantly more likely to achieve their maximum potential and success than those that do not. These sessions could be your first step towards planning your future and realizing your potential.
Developing your Ideal Performance State (IPS) – IPS is defined as the meta-capability of integrating ones physical, emotional, mental and spiritual capabilities to sustain high performance over time, even in the face of adversity. This module will introduce you to the four pillars of IPS and how you can develop your meta-capability towards reaching your IPS. In the process, it will also be discussing some of the tough life-choices that you need to make so that you can achieve something as powerful as IPS.
Inculcating Mental Toughness - The ability to remain emotionally strong in the most extreme competitive and combative environments is often the difference between winning and losing.
This module will introduce you to some of the tools used in professional sport to manage mental toughness, to reduce stress and to focus, which have been translated to be applied in organizational situations. These mental tools will enable you to manage and balance your own psychological situations in a dynamic and competitive environment that you would encounter in your professional lives as leaders of organizations.
As a unique experiment, this programme will delivered by an academician, who has an abiding interest in sports and a highly accomplished tennis coach who has a wealth of experience in running companies as well as coaching leaders across the world. Both of them complement each other in transferring learning between the world of sports and domain of management and leadership.
Sourav Mukherji
Sourav Mukherji is Professor of Organization Behaviour at IIM Bangalore. He teaches postgraduate courses on Organization Design and Inclusive Business Models. Prior to joining IIMB, he worked with IBM and Oracle in Sales and Product Management functions (1993-1998) and for the Boston Consulting Group as a Strategy Consultant (2002-2003).
As an academician, Sourav’s expertise is in organization design – structures, processes and culture that enable organizations to achieve their strategic objectives. Apart from his teaching and research, Sourav has been a consultant to organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, advising them on organization design and financial sustainability. He was awarded the IIMB Alumni Award for Faculty of the Year, IBM Faculty Award and currently holds the IIMB Chair Professor of Excellence. He also received Fellowship from UNDP and Villgrow for research on Social Entrepreneurship.
At IIM Bangalore, he has held several leadership positions such as Dean of Academic Programmes (2015 - 2018), Chairperson of the Postgraduate (MBA) Programme (2014-2015) and Chairperson Placements (2006-2009). Sourav sits on the governing and advisory boards of not-for-profit and educational institutions.
Sourav is an avid follower of sports, enjoys running long distances, coaches marathon runners and explores means of transferring lessons learnt from sports to management.
Adrian Rattenbury
With over 40 years of working in a range of industries and corporate structures in the UK and Internationally Adrian has amassed a wealth of experience operating as Company Director, Chair of not for profit organisations, adviser to registered Charities, National Governing Bodies, NGO's and directly with Government.
He has owned and managed his own business for 38 years and is currently the Director of four Limited Liabilities companies in the UK as well as companies in other countries and partnerships in China and a number of European Countries.
With a focus on sport, education and corporate training Adrian has overseen the training of more than 100,000 people from 122 countries around the world and has delivered training and coaching courses in more than 50 countries personally. He has been voted the World, Europe, Middle East and UK Coach of the Year and holds five Master Professional qualifications, a master’s degree in management, BSc in Coaching and holds Qualified Teacher Status
Adrian is a highly focused individual and loves to work to time frames and deadlines. He is a very creative thinker and can often see new and different routes and areas for development and new initiatives