The document discusses the author's questions and reflections before attending a Faculty Development Program (FDP) at IIM Ahmedabad. The key points are: 1) The author wondered if the FDP would truly benefit them or just be a "tag", and if it would provide an edge in teaching, research, and participating in a group of 40 people. 2) The objective of the FDP is to upgrade participants' teaching skills, training skills, and research skills to match the changing environment and be rewarded with knowledge, attitude, skills and habits (KASH) rather than cash. 3) What makes IIM Ahmedabad's program different is its community and participative learning approaches, which help participants

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2. Questions in my mind before going for FDP
 Why Faculty Development Programme (Just to get a tag or
anything else)
 Whether it will benefit me or not
 Whether it will provide me an edge or not once I come back
 Whether is it going to make the significant difference when
it comes to my way of teaching
 Will it make any difference on my research acumen
 Whether I will be able to show my existence in a group of
forty FDP participants at IIM A
 The big question was shall I be able to deliver in
consonance with the expectations of my stake holders i.e.
whether difference in me shall be noticed by my peers and
my dear students once back to the pavilion

3. FDP: Objective
 To Upgrade
REWARDS…………….. IN WHICH FORM
WHAT TYPE OF REWARDS???????
So that You match the
changing turbulent
environment and in turn
it fetches you
Rewards
Teaching Skills
Training Skills
Research
skills

4. FDP: Objective
Human Resource development philosophy says
 Competencies among Human resources can be developed
at any stage, level, age
 As such faculty development programme at IIM A has
shown me that philosophy works in academics.
 Because as of now after coming from the programme I
could feel difference in me ……but yes as my peers and
students you are yet to identify the difference in me
…may take time but I am sure
 The focus of IIM A through FDP is to develop overall
competence at academic training and research endeavors
among the participants

5. FDP at IIMA further focuses on
 It thereafter makes you apt so as to sustain the ever
changing vibrant environment and offer yourself to it as
and when required……
 And you get rewarded not in form of CASH
BUT IN THE FORM OF
KASH
(knowledge, attitude, skills and habits)
Participative Approach to Learning(tools to achieve it includes Small
group exercises, case based studies, Presentations, management
games, role plays and many more)

6. HOW IIM A Helps in earning of KASH
 They tend to disseminate continual knowledge
(both-ways)
 Everyone in the campus is on toes in shaping your
attitude in the right direction and focus is on
their own attitude as well
 Everyone in the campus is focussing on
augmenting their skills, your skills horizontally,
vertically, diagonally
 By working on KAS…..habits across develop in
right direction in line (as desired)

7. What make the difference at IIMA
 PEDAGOGY
 TEACHERS(ALL FACULTY MEMBERS AND TEACHING
ASSOCIATES)
 SUPPORT STAFF(OFFICERS AND OTHER CLERICAL STAFF)
 STUDENTS
 Infrastructure
IT IS THE IIMA COMMUNITY THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE………
THEY KNOW AND ARE AWARE OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING,,,
WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THEM AND EVERYONE IN THE
ORGANISATION IS OUTSTANDING

8. SUBJECTS we were trained in
 Almost more than 20 subjects taught in a span of four months
 Every area of management was taken hold of
 The subjects included
 Communication for management teachers
 Human resource management
 Information technology for management
 Statistical data analysis
 Strategy formulation and implementation
 Advance multivariate analysis
 Marketing
 Economics
 Cost accounting
 Fundamentals of accounting

9. SUBJECTS we were trained in (contd.)
 Organisational behavior
 Qualitative research methods
 Business research
 Case methods
 Corporate finance
core (marketing spzl)
Business strategies for BOP
Neuro Science and consumer behavior
Marketing Analysis and consumer response modelling
Application of experimental methods in marketing and marketing research

10. This campus really makes the difference