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Concluding Session_Wrapup-India April 18 2023-Feb 28 2024 ZS.pptx
1. … This journey started on 18th April, 2023.
The Eighth Group of GBC College (India)…
2. Pranams and Flashback!
₪ Hare Krishna. PAMHO. AGTSP. Honored and
fortunate to be in your association again.
₪ If you are reviewing this set of slides, you have
come a long way with us--the GBC College team,
and …
₪ We are so grateful to you for allowing us to serve
you through this past year.
₪ It seems as if it was just yesterday! Let us roll
back in time and visualize:
What went through our minds when we first received
that invitation letter to undergo this training, and when
we attended the first session over Zoom on April 18,
2023?
3. Flashback and Gratitude!
₪ You are the 8th international group trained at the GBC
College in India…
₪ The GBC College staff has already trained
7 international groups in India,
2 groups in North America, and
1 each in Russia, Central Asia, and South America
₪ GBC College instructors, assistants, and staff are so
grateful to have been your partners through this
training.
₪ Collectively, we are fulfilling Srila Prabhupada’s desire
to train future top leaders.
4. What Did We Teach
At
The GBC College For
Leadership Development?
5. Training in Five Modules
1. Spiritual
Excellence
2. Personal
Effectiveness
3. Relationship
Effectiveness
4. Organizational
Effectiveness
5. Compliance &
Administrative
Effectiveness
6. Five Modules
1. Spiritual Excellence Courses
1. spiritual strength,
2. ethics,
3. build/reinforce values and character, and
4. serve as the foundation to carry out your job.
2. Personal Effectiveness Courses
1. effective
2. efficient
3. productive
3. Relationship Effectiveness Courses
1. strong, fruitful, and rewarding relationships
4. Organizational Effectiveness Courses
1. better systems, better planning, and foresight.
7. Five Module contd…
5. Compliance and Administrative Effectiveness:
1. spiritual and administrative standards
2. internal and external legal regulations,
3. norms—both spiritual and administrative, and
4. keep out of any potential legal troubles down the road
1. by protecting the devotees, especially children, in our society,
2. by protecting copyrights,
3. by keeping your zone financially solvent
4. by making your zone a safe and spiritual haven for all .
10. Courses that would…
₪ Provide
spiritual strength, and ethics
₪ Help build/reinforce
values and character
₪ Serve as the foundation
to carry out your job.
11. Courses for Spiritual Excellence
Being Srila
Prabhupada-anugas
Vaishnava Sadachar
More ???
12. Spiritual Excellence…
₪ Sample courses on this theme/module.
₪ Being Prabhupada-anugas
by Rasika Raman prabhu
₪ Vaishnava Sadachar
online, with case studies from Srimad Bhagavatam.
₪ Were there more?
Please check the residential schedule sheet, List of Online Zoom sessions, and
courses on the edX platform, and add those courses to the above list for your
reference.
This list will come in handy when you answer the questions based on this set of
slides.
₪ What was covered in each course/topic?
₪ You will need this information to complete the assignments.
14. Courses that would…
₪ Make you more…
Effective
» By doing the right things
Efficient
» By doing them right
Productive
» By producing more output with lesser inputs
15. Courses for Personal Effectiveness
Time Management Art of Listening
Facilitating Meetings
Service-Life Balance
Why and How to be a
Leader in ISKCON?
Question: Which of the above courses were NOT taught to your batch?
Any additional courses taught?
16. Personal Effectiveness
₪ Some examples are on the previous slide…
Were these courses taught at the College? Who offered
them?
₪ What other courses were taught in this category?
Make a list!
Please check the residential schedule sheet, List of
Online Zoom sessions, and courses on the edX
platform, and add those courses to the above list for
your reference.
₪ What was covered in each course/topic.
**You will need this information to complete the
assignments.**
18. Courses that would…
Help you develop and maintain
Strong, Cordial,
Fruitful, and
Rewarding
Relationships
With
Other devotees and leaders in ISKCON.
20. Relationship Effectiveness…
₪ Some sample courses/topics are listed on the slide
above…
Were these taught? Who taught them and when?
₪ More courses taught in this module?
Make a list!
Please check the residential schedule sheet, List of Online
Zoom sessions, and courses on the edX platform, and add
those courses to the above list for your reference.
₪ What was covered in each course/topic.
**You will need this information to complete the
assignments.**
22. Courses that would…
Help Improve Effectiveness of a Zone
Through Better
Systems
Planning
&
Foresight
23. Organizational Effectiveness
–Sample topics
Book
Distribution
Strategic Planning
Why Religious
Movements Fail?
Marketing
Change
Management
Temple
Administration
Systems Thinking
Fundraising
Four Disciplines
of Execution
Developing
Bhakti Habitats
Quality
Management
Project
Management
24. Organizational Effectiveness…
₪ Sample courses on the previous slide.
Were these taught? Who taught them?
Can you add more to this list?
Please check the residential schedule sheet, List of Online Zoom
sessions, and courses on the edX platform, and add those courses
to the above list for your reference.
₪ What was covered in each course/topic?
You will need this information to complete the assignments.
₪ What did each course cover?
For example …Developing Bhakti Habitats in the East and West
is an online course modeled after the devotee recruitment and
cultivation practices used at Alachua, Florida, USA, and Pune,
India.
26. Courses that would…
₪ Assist in:
Conforming with ISKCON’s standards
» spiritual and administrative
Complying with internal and external legal regulations
₪ Help keep your zone out of legal troubles by
» Protecting devotees, especially children
» Protecting copyrights
» Keeping a zone financially solvent
» Making a zone safe and spiritual haven for all.
28. Compliance and Administrative…
₪ Sample courses on the previous slide.
Were these taught? Who taught them? When? How?
₪ Please check the residential schedule sheet, List of Online
Zoom sessions, and courses on the edX platform, and add
those courses to the above list for your reference.
This list will come in handy when you answer the questions based
on this set of slides.
₪ What was covered in each course/topic.
**You will need this information to complete the
assignments.**
30. April 2023 – Feb 2024
RESIDENTIAL
-
(10
Days)
Monthly Instructor Calls
Action Learning Project—
ALP I
FELICITATION
&
CERTIFICATION
Course
Timeline
Online
Zoom
Sessions—Part
1
Online Courses Online Courses
Online
Zoom
Sessions—Part
2
Online
Zoom
Sessions—Part
3
ALP Calls
Action Learning Project—
ALP 2
31. ZS Training Structure
This is how the training at GBC College was
structured:
Zoom Sessions
Residential at Ujjain
Online courses
Action Learning Project
» a live project from your zone with conference calls every
three weeks
Action Learning Project - Implementation
32. Why and How Were These Courses and
Topics Selected?
33. These courses and Topics were selected…
To Fulfill Responsibilities
of a Zonal Supervisor
By Assisting the GBC Zonal Secretary with:
Maintaining standards—spiritual and organizational
Ensuring compliance/conformity/productivity
Keeping managers in his/her zone inspired
Promoting sustainable growth
Identifying and selecting successors
Creating and implementing strategic plans
34. Where did these Zonal Supervisor
responsibilities come from?
₪ Derived from the key responsibilities as per the
GBC Resolution Zonal
Supervisors_02.21.2014_updated_Feb_2015
--compliance to internal and external legal regulations,
protection of the institute and its
properties/assets/copyrights.
--identifying successors; as they have been identified by
their superiors
--creating long term plans to grow, sustain in a way that
is consistent with the overall mission and vision of
ISKCON.
35. And… To Develop 5 Types of Core Competencies
Required of a Zonal Supervisor
1. Personal
oSkill set–as in various GBC College courses
oPersonal Behavior—spiritual practices, ethics, faithful
presentation of Srila Prabhupada’s teachings
oAdherence—to GBC resolutions
oCompetence—to:
Introduce, promote and sustain spiritual standards
Propagate Krishna Consciousness
Have good communications skills, ability to handle pressure and
be results-oriented
oRelationships—with ISKCON leaders and devotees
36. Core competencies…
₪ Besides responsibilities, the resolution also highlights the
core competencies.
₪ To perform the job, a Zonal Supervisor (ZS) needs to have
the following core competencies divided into 5 categories:
personal,
knowledge,
experience,
technical, and
problem solving/planning/decision making.
₪ The first one described on the previous slide…Personal.
Remaining 4 on the next slide
37. More Core Competencies …
2. Knowledge
o Srila Prabhupada’s books
o Srila Prabhupada’s instructions about management, and
o ISKCON Law.
3. Experience
o In other leadership positions within ISKCON.
4. Technical competencies
o Computer literacy,
o Negotiation skills,
o Read financial statements,
o Budgeting skills, and
o Risk management
5. Problem solving, planning and decision making
38. GBC College Curriculum
Key Training Objective:
Equip ZS candidates with the necessary:
knowledge
skills
values and
spiritual strength
…to carry out the job of a Zonal Supervisor
39. GBCC Curriculum Vis-a-vis ZS
Responsibilities and Competencies
Next Section on edX (Questions):
Map the
Courses
and
Zonal Supervisor’s
Responsibilities and Competencies
In each Training Module
41. Questions!
₪ Go to the next section on edX, called
Questions.
Match the topics/courses to the job description of a
Zonal Supervisor.
Refer to your notes/list from the slides above.
Write the course/topic name in the colored block on
the righthand side of the slides.
Use a “?” mark to indicate that the topics covered in
this batch did not address this need.
₪ Upon completion, please upload your file in
that section on edX.
42. Survey!
₪ Finally, fill out the Google survey related to
this course on edX.
This is not an evaluation form, but a course
requirement!
44. SOA- ISKCON Leadership Training
🙇🏻 🙇🏻 🙇🏻 🙇🏻 🙇🏻 🙇🏻 🙇🏻
🙇🏻
₪ On behalf of the staff and faculty at the GBC
College for Leadership Development
Our heartfelt gratitude for allowing us to serve you
₪ All glories to your dedicated, selfless service.
₪ All glories to His Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada!
45. Thank you very much!
Your servant—Rupanuga dasa
Credits:
Gauranga Prabhu and Rasika Raman Prabhu
for laying the initial framework for this
presentation.
Hare Krishna!
Editor's Notes
4. Technical knowledge and skills
5. Ability to solve problems, think ahead and make decisions
