Human Resource management and Leadership goes Hand-in-Hand. Sourav is a perfect example of born Leader who projects the Big Five model of Leadership in his attitude!

1. ~:MAHARAJA:~
SOURAV GANGULY
“BORN LEADER”
Presented by:
N.Krishna Chaitanya
Nakul Manjunath
Praveen Jayaramaraju
Kaustav
Alex Alfred

2. PERSONAL BACKGROUND
•Ganguly was born on July 8, 1972, in an affluent
family of Kolkata , India.
•In his childhood, soccer was his first interest and he
played for the school team for four years. Later his
interest shifted to cricket.
•Sourav was nicknamed "Maharaja" or "The
Emperor" probably since his parents felt he will be a
leader some day.
•Though Sourav is a natural right hander, he learned
to bat with his left hand from his elder brother,
Snehashish just because he could not find a pair of
right handed gloves for himself.

3. INTRODUCTION
 Ganguly became the captain of the team India
in 2000, when it was in a deep crisis.
 Over the next few years, with the help of the
coach John Wright, he soon turned the team
into a combative unit.
 His team building skills, impartiality and,
guts displayed in supporting his team
members through thick and thin, endeared
him to the team.
 Experts credited him with instilling a sense
of aggression in the team.
 Ganguly soon became the most successful
captain in the history of Indian cricket.

4. RESPONSIBILITY @ BIASED
SITUATION
 Till 2000, the Indian Cricket Team comprised a bunch of
individual performance-oriented players. Seniors were more
interested in making their places secure in the team. Juniors
were not given proper chance to showcase their talents.
 Issues like regional bias, different subgroups working against
each other‟s interests within the team ate into the team‟s
effectiveness as a unit.
 In early 2000, the morale of the team was completely
shattered by the match-fixing scandal. Sourav Ganguly was
assigned captaincy at this crucial juncture.
 A born leader, he went ahead with his
instincts and radically changed the
entire outlook of the team to create
„Team India‟ as we know it now.

5. Changes brought in by Sourav Ganguly in
the Indian cricket team:
 Provided ample opportunities to youngsters in the
team, support and guide them and stood by them in
difficult times.
 Cultivated merit instead of regional bias.
 Positive, never-say-die attitude
 Looked eye to eye with the fiercest of opponents,
transforming the meek Indian cricket team into the
confident and aggressive “Men in Blue”.
 Reorganized the team structure, giving more liberty
to seniors to guide and mentor junior members.
 Shifted the focus from individualistic performances
to teamwork. The concept of TEAM INDIA was
born.

6. Strategies in communicating change as an
effective Leader:
 Sourav constantly backed and encouraged the
younger team-members & guided them in difficult
times, thereby gaining their respect, and the
authority that he deserved as a captain. His strategy
comprised a mix of:
 Tell And Sell
 Underscore and Explore
 The change sought by him was
developmental/incremental as well as charismatic,
for which he used supportive and emotional
communication style respectively.

7. Skills for communicating changes:
 Sourav possessed excellent toxic
handling skills. He shielded his team
members from all kind of negative
influences.
 He also used his skills of upward
selling of ideas, incrementally and
continuously, while convincing the
team management to implement his
ideas about building the team.
 He used the following language forms:
 Ideals – He always pitched in for
what he believed.
 Appeals – He sought the support of
his young team members in his
fight for a change.

8. Consolidating changes:
 Redesign roles – Sourav assigned specific mentoring roles to
responsible senior players whom he believed to be aligned
with his vision of change.
 Constantly act with advocated action – He always lead from
the front.
 Redesign Reward system – For the first time in Indian cricket,
he removed regional bias and pushed for selecting players on
the basis of merit and talent.
 Encourage voluntary acts of initiative – He encouraged
youngsters to give him innovative ideas on the field.
 Celebrate en route – The
famous NatWest shirt whirling
incident that marked the joyous
celebration of the birth of the
MEN in BLUE.

9. Vision & Achievements
• Ganguly was considered as a leader with a vision,
who could set goals and inspire his team-mates.
• Experts credited Ganguly with bringing in an
optimistic vision to Indian cricket.
• Ganguly believed that India could achieve better
success in international cricket than it had been doing
till then.
• South Africa 3-2
• The Legend Comes Back Home
• Beating Pakistan in tests in Pakistan in 2004
• Again, beating Pakistan in Pakistan in ODI’S in
2004. This is a feat which was not achieved by
any of his predecessors before him.

10. • Leading the team to victory at the historic test match at the Eden
Gardens against the mighty Australians to halt Steve Waugh‟s
“Final Frontier” after being made
to follow on .The world saw the emergence of
VERY VERY SPECIALLAXMAN to complete the tally of the
„Famous Five‟.
• Promotion of young guns in the team was another aspect
of Dada‟s captaincy. The
current Indian team has many players who were brought into th
e team by„ DADA. Players like Yuvraj, Dhoni, Harbhajan, Irfan,
Sehwag and Zaheer were some his key instruments in team
building „TEAM INDIA
• 21 test wins as a captain
• Final of the world Cup in 2003 after a gap of 20 years.
• His natural ability as a leader comes to light, when we notice
that his ability to handle seniors and greats like Sachin, Dravid,
Laxman, and Kumble without any problems. Leadership comes
naturally to him.

12. Ganguly was the best captain of Indian cricket
team and Dhoni is the captain of best Indian
cricket team

14. Achievements
•
Sport star Person of the Year - 1998 Awarded by the Sportstar
Magazine
Arjuna Award -1998 For outstanding performance in cricket
CEAT Cricketer of the Year 99-00 , Cash prize of 5 lakh
rupees and a trophy
CEAT Indian Captain of the Year 01-02 For outstanding
achievement as leader
Award for Cricketing Excellence 2003 Presented to men who
made "the difference"
Padma Shri 2004 4th highest civilian award in India