Who Inspires a Teacher

Where do the teachers get their inspiration from?
From their publications- research papers or books?
From invited talks or being a keynote speaker?
From bagging a prestgious consulting assignment?
No, none of these!
None of these? You must be mad!

A teacher gets his/her inspiration from the students.
Yes, having taught MBA programs for 15 years outside Navy and several more years while in the Military, I can say so.
Students provide the challenge.
The thrill.
The excitement.
The frustration.
The happiness.
The inspiration.
QED.

So this Teacher's Day Ghumakkad once again thanks his students and former students for making his life worthwhile. We begin this story with a PQ- picturesque quote on flower buds in our garden. Teachers also do gardening. They plant seeds of knowledge.

When a teacher teaches one student, how many learn? One? Wrong! The answer is two. Because while teaching the teacher also learns! Ask any teacher to confirm.

Here are a few glimpses of Ghumakkad's sessions and learnings from a wide variety of audience from students to teachers to social workers from Afghanistan.

Whether introducing a new subject like 'Startup Management' or teaching the existing courses, it is always a great fun. Glimpses:

Apart from teaching budding business leaders, interaction with Social Entrepreneurs is always humbling and enriching.

Teachers also have to be judges or jury members of various events in the campus. These assignments are great learning experiences. Sample some experiences below:

Teaching the teachers gives another level of thrill. Ghumakkad has been fortunate to have conducted many such workshops for faculities of universities, colleges and even schools. 

Teachers expect their students to be 10/10. Are the teachers themselves 10/10? If not, how can they become 10/10? Read the story how Ghumakkad conducted a workshop titled 'Teacher 10 on 10?' for 200+ teachers at Hyderabad

Earlier this year, Ghumakkad conducted a wrokshop for Afghan Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Hyderabad. For full story on Business Plan Workshop for Afghan CSOs click here. Glimpses.






Read how teachers learn from students? Written a year ago but the message remains.

Ghumakkad's earlier greetings on Teachers' Day 2015 and 2014 below:

Ghumakkad's former students and colleagues at IBS Hyderabad may like to browse the story "IBS: Journey of a different kind".

For readers outside India: Every year in India, we celebrate 5th September as Teacher's Day. It commemorates the birthday of a great teacher Dr S Radhakrishnan who rose to become the President of India. We salute him.

We end with another PQ. The picture of a 500 year old gate was taken at Medak Fort, 90 kms from Hyderabad. "Teachers open the door, you enter by yourself"

Incidentally, this happens to be 250th post on Ghumakkad's blog which completed 5 years in May this year.

Thanks for browsing.

   -Harsh-the-teacher-and-Ghumakkad/ 5th Sept 2017


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Social Entrepreneurship

Dear Fellow Citizen of the World,

This post from Ghumakkad, is not on the usual physical plane of places, flora or fauna but on the cerebral plane.
It is about launching of a new course in the PGDM program where Ghumakkad teaches.

Titled 'Social Entrepreneurship', this core course has the following learning objectives:

1.  Respond to the societal realities and how it can create business value
2.  Identify the challenges of setting up and operating an Enterprise for common good of the society
3. Apply inter-disciplinary management knowledge and practices for sustainability of a social venture 

Being the inaugural batch for this course, the students of PGDM graduating class of 2016 at Vishwa Vishwani School of Business, Hyderabad are all charged up. So am I.

It is after a gap of nine years, that a new course designed by me at MBA/PGDM level has been introduced. You can click to read about previous new courses introduced while I was at IBS Hyderabad.

Purpose of this post is to acknowledge the contribution of following individuals who made it happen.

• Dr Archana Pillai
• Dr Ashok Agarwal
• Prof KL Srivastava
• Dr Sabyasachi Rath
• Ms Shree Ravindranath
• Dr Kinnera Murthy
• Dr Malini Reddy
• Mr Verghese Jacob
• Dr B Ranganayakulu

We would also like to thank the social enterprises and NGOs who have agreed to partner with us in this challenging journey of sensitising tomorrow's business leaders about social responsibility.

Ideas and suggestions to make this program more realistic are welcome. We would be happy to help other institutes to introduce similar programs.

Happy browsing

   -  Harsh-the-Ghumakkad/ 21st July 2015