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Personal Growth Lab

Teamwork, and therefore groups, has been increasingly the focus of attention for a wide variety of reasons for quite sometime now.
On one hand there is an increased realization that groups need to be the focal point of our attention and organisations require to harness the synergy available only in groups. On the other hand individuals require the group both to work in and work with for their (personal) growth and development. This trend towards groups being a focal point attention is understandable.

Against such a scenario, B-Schools have an increasingly challenging though unenviable task. They need to provide the industry this rare combination. Industry wants to be infused with such fresh blood, preferably youthful.

This intake is to be simultaneously empowered as well as capable team players. Only then will they translate into potential leaders for later years.

This would seem to project a rather confusing, may be, contradictory picture of industry's demands from B-Schools. While the industry is shouting hoarse about the competitive edge and competition, Team players are demanded. Both answers are to be provided by the B-Schools.

Students are, therefore, taken through a trimester module, along the lines of a workshop, focused on,

• Awareness of the self for personal effectiveness;

• Awareness of the other for interpersonal effectiveness; and

• Awareness of the group for group effectiveness.