Volunteerism is Willingness to go extra mile to create positive impact for self, organization and community

1. Volunteerism
A Catalyst for
Career Progression
Grow Faster Than your Peers
- VSR
17-Mar-2012
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2. Growth in the Industry - Employee Career
Life Cycle in Knowledge Economy
16 Years Age: 24+ Age: 28+ Age: 35+ Age: 45 to
Education Years Years Years 58 Years
Age: 21 Enterprise
Years Business Managed
Team Managed
Self Managed
Student Managed
The age information provided above is only indicative
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3. The Key issue
Role & Capability Gap
Team Project Project Program Project General Vice Senior Chief
Capability Leader Leader Manager Manager Portfolio Manager President Vice Projects
Manager – Projects – Projects President Officer
Role – Projects
Chief Projects Officer
Senior Vice President – Projects
Vice President – Projects
General Manager – Projects
Project Portfolio Manager
Program Manager
Project Manager
Project Leader
Team Leader
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4. High Performance Work ethic
Organizations
 Growth Depends Purely on Work Performance
10% Outstanding 50% Average
Performers Performers
35% Excellent
5% Low Performers
Performers
Indicative numbers
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5. Why 55% of employees are Average
or Low Performers?
1. Lacks Forward Looking
2. Inability to work in teams Are you investing
3. Lacks Action enough time to
4. Learning Stagnation prepare for
5. Lacks Passion and Energy future
6. Lacks Communication
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6. You must invest your time on 4 As to
progress in your career
ASPIRATION ATTITUDE ABILITY ACTION
Chief Projects Officer
Senior Vice President – Projects
Vice President – Projects
General Manager – Projects
Project Portfolio Manager
Program Manager
Project Manager
Project Leader
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Team Leader

7. What is Volunteerism ?
Willingness to go extra mile to create
positive impact for self, organization
and community
Volunteerism provides opportunities to improve 4As
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8. The challenge
 In a typical business environment you don’t get an
opportunity to play your dream role…. Hence you
don’t get opportunity to learn and improve your
capabilities
 Risk of experimentation in business environment is
very high
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9. Volunteerism
would help you to get your dream role
 But, You must be an active partner of non profit
organization and must have the willingness to
spend extra effort
• Volunteer CEO YOU COULD TAKE UP YOUR
• Volunteer Program Manager DREAM ROLE
• Volunteer Project Manager
• Volunteer CIO/CTO YOU COULD EXPERIMENT YOUR
• Volunteer CFO IDEAS
• Volunteer Team Leader
• Volunteer Technology YOU COULD IMPROVE YOUR
Specialist CAPABILITIES
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10. My continuous improvement in 4As
helped me to grow at my business
Willingness to go extra mile has created
positive impact for me, my organization and
also for community (to some extent)
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11. What I gained as Volunteer Leader –
few examples
4 As What I achieved Outcome from my Volunteer Leadership
Aspiration I learnt how to THINK BIG • Introduced SLCB, ISLD, PMI TEAM INDIA,
Gyan Lahari, cloud & mobility programs
Attitude I acquired positive attitude • My problem solving approach got improved
10X, I got an opportunity to work with
many personalities & complex situations
Ability I got the ability to Lead Organizations & • PMIPCC, PMI Team India, TiE Hyderabad
Transformational Programs Cloud & Mobility initiatives
• PMIPCC SLCB Program
Action I introduced many organization • Got Community Advancement award from
improvement initiatives, PMI Global
programs/projects and gone extra mile • Managed mega conferences and taken
to deliver results (as Volunteer Leader) PMIPCC to global
• Led PMI Team India and played key role for
bringing PMI Global to India
• I took big Risks and successfully delivered
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12. VSR
Also as a volunteer, I met with
President of India at his office in 2005

13. Past success does not guarantee future
success, continuous learning and going extra
mile are key
Become a Volunteer or Volunteer Leader and
hone your 4 A Quotients (Aspiration, Attitude, Ability,
Action) and excel at your work by applying
these learnings
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14. You must know your potential and then
unleash the same – become volunteer today
Hanu’Man’ is a great
volunteer leader and
powerful than
Super’Man’, Bat’Man’,
He’Man’ and Spider’Man’

15. Volunteer Leadership is different from Business Leadership
If you have any of the “Be open and Transparent"
characteristics like ego, identify
crisis , arrogance, inability to
“Execution is the Game Changer”
work in teams
“Avoid Follow-up and Reminder Culture”
better NOT to become
Volunteer / Volunteer Leader
“Leading Volunteers without empowerment”
“Understand Characteristics of Volunteers”
“Passion, energy and drive are the key ingredients for success”
“Add extra buffers and contingencies while planning your activities”

16. MY SOCIAL WORLD
VSR
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