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Monday 13 February 2017

Guest Lecture-4 - Wisdom Learning Series (HR Club Activity)



1.      Ms. Renu Nargunde, HR Psychologist/ Counsellor – British Council of India, was able to relate well with 47 students of HR Specialisation PGDM, 2nd Year, Batch 2015-17 and, PGDM-A/B, 1st Year, Batch 2016-18, on Saturday, 11th February 2017 in Seminar Hall 601, 6th Floor, on the topic, ‘Creativity- the 21st Century Skill for career development’.
2.      She shared her 17+ years of insight into the different ways to build creativity for the workplace.
3.      She explained various exercises of pen-and-paper type variety on each stage of building creativity in the environment.
4.      They are listed as below:
a.       Be inquisitive – She gave the students a mind exercise to interpret the different ways to answer a given question in general and at the interview stage of hiring.
b.      Collaborate – She made the students work individually and then in pairs and made them realize the power of team-work.
c.       Be imaginative – The “iPhone” is a typical ‘21st century example’ of “creativity” in the example of how imagination combines a radio-player, disc-player, TV, video-enabler and camera into one compact form of the -‘iPhone’.
d.      Persist – She replaced the word ‘DON’T QUIT’ with ‘DO IT
e.       Tolerance of ambiguity – She explained how welcoming ambiguity fosters creativity.
f.       Practicing Reflection – She described, “Reflection stage” of ‘creativity’ as, ‘looking back, so that the view looking forward is even clearer.’
5.      On the whole, the session was interesting and there was a good exchange of information.
6.      Visit the links below for this lecture and our other HR Club Guest Lectures:


PGDM student introducing the speaker, Ms. Renu Nargunde, British Council 
  
Alumnus, Mr. Sarang Kulkarni presenting Ms. Renu Nargunde with a memento

Ms. Renu Nargunde delivering the lecture on 21st century skills of 'creativity' & students listening

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