ENHANCING LEADERSHIP SKILLS

 The “Enhancing Leadership Skills” Programme at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing concluded yesterday (11/-06/23). This short two-week programme commenced on May 27 and had five religious sisters as participants.

Jose Parappully and Philip Pinto facilitated.

This workshop explored concepts, styles, functions and challenges of effective leadership. Through

didactic input and experiential exercises, participants were helped to examine their leadership style,

evaluate their leadership potential and learn new styles and more effective ways of functioning as a leader, particularly from a Christian faith perspective.

Topics covered included the following:

 Self-Awareness

 Leadership Basics

 Theories of Leadership

 Assessment of Leadership Styles

 Being an Emotionally Mature Leader

 Transformational Leadership

 Spirituality of Leadership

 Today’s world, Today’s Church, Today’s Leader

 Jesus Today: Our Model of Leadership

 Synodality: A New Way of Governing

 The Leader as Hero and the Leader as Host

 Strengthening the Soul of Our leadership

Methodology was very experiential using a four-fold approach of Input, Introspection, Interaction

and Intercession.

Course requirement included reading assigned material, active participation in group work,

liturgy, and journaling.

Participants were immensely satisfied with the programme. Four of the five particpants gave a 10 out of 10 score for Usefulness of the programme. The other gave 9 out of 10.

Some comments.

·         “The programme was very well organised with lots of time for introspection.”

·         “The inputs were very good and presented very effectively, systematically, with lots of practical examples. The sharing among participants helped to deepen insights from the inputs.”

·         “The atmosphere was very friendly. Facilitators were experts on the topic.”

·         “Very relevant topics for our life as leader. I was deeply contented and happy to be part of this programme.”

·         “Stay was very comfortable. Food was very tasty. Staff very friendly. Relaxed time table.”

Our next programme is the Sumedha Sadhana- A Psychospiritual Wholeness Journey from July 1 to September 18. All seats are taken.

Seats are available for the September 27 – December 15 Sumedha Sadhana. Contact; sumedhacentre@gmail.com