"The purpose of life is to live the life of purpose" You’re busy with your technical job, doing what is required to be done. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with that. However, is that the career path you’re meant to pursue? Do your strengths allow you to be more aligned with management roles? If yes, then of what kind? Give yourself an opportunity to get inspired, receive thoughtful answers to your key questions, and learn to discover your true potential from Leadership expert Mr. Anil Sachdev – founder & CEO of School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL). Key Questions Answered How do I know my strengths and areas of improvement? Am I building a career around my strengths? Why do I need to move from a technical role to a management role? How can I leverage my strengths to move from an individual contributor to a manager and then to a leader? How do I know whether I should choose Marketing/HR/Finance/Technology etc. as my career stream? What should be my short term and long term objective and how should I devise a strategy for my career?

2. Why do I need to change my
career track?
Anil Sachdev

3. The Context
• The economic crisis
• The challenges of new social upheavals,
climate changes, terrorism
• Emerging Markets and BRIC
• Off shoring- the ‘Flat World’ or the ‘Curved
One’
• Opportunities in new demographics
• The metaphor of Obama and its difficulties

4. The 4 most critical questions
• Who am I ?
• Why am I here ?
• Where do I want to go ?
• How do I get there ?

5. Life giving force – Truth - “Union”
Mindfulness
Ego - Values/Habits/Fears - “Wisdom”
Sustainability
Intellect – Choices -“Knowledge”
Ethics
Relationship/Emotions/ - the mind
–“Emotions”- Compassion- Meaning
Instinct, Reaction - “Information”
Body, 5 senses, Perceptions –
“Data”- Diversity
6 Layers of SELF

6. The message of Self Leadership
• Organizations of consequence require inspired
leadership
• Inspired Leaders have understanding of the
impact of the six layers of ‘Self’
• They are led by their core or inner most circle
and that enables them to lead in an inspired
manner in the outer circles

7. The Essence
• Leadership is about leading one’s body and actions,
heart and emotions and intellect and thoughts
• It is about being led by one’s consciousness and
Spirit
• It is about making conscious choices
• It is about enabling others to be leaders

8. The 4 D model
Dream
“What might be?”
(What is the world calling for)
Envisioning Results
Design
“What should be--the ideal?”
Co-constructing
Deliver
“How to empower, learn,
and adjust/improvise?”
Sustaining
Discovery
“What gives life?”
(The best of what is)
Appreciating
Source – David L. Cooperrider – Weatherhead School of Management

9. Discovering our gifts
• Interview yourself based on the Appreciative Inquiry
framework by asking questions such as:
– When were you at your best and the most joyful?
– What happened ?
– Who were the people involved ?
– What was special about this experience ?
– What enabled you to give off your best and have long
lasting joy ? What does this teach you about your unique
gifts?
• Listen to your inner voice with child like enthusiasm
and treat the narrative as a special treasure

10. The Narrative of my life
• What is the story I tell about myself to My Self
? What have been the high points and low
points of my life ? What has given me long
lasting joy and true happiness ? What has
caused sadness/regret/guilt?
• What would I like my narrative to be ? What
matters most to me at this stage of my life ?

11. Self Improvement Plan
• Based on the narrative of your life, what is your ‘calling’?
• To what extent is your personal and professional life aligned to this
calling?
• What changes would you like to make to transform your life
towards your calling?
• What competencies do you need to develop to make this happen?
• What are your unique gifts?
• How can you leverage these gifts to develop these competencies?
• What are the specific steps you will take to develop these
competencies and use them to transform your life for the better ?
• How are you spending time today? What do you need to do to
eliminate activities that are not aligned to your calling and deploy
the freed up time towards your plan?
• What could go wrong? What do you plan to do to counter this?

12. Time Utilization Survey
• Please look at the way you are spending your time today and divide 24 hours of
your typical day on what you actually do and not what you would like to do:
1. Sleeping
2. Eating
3. Personal Chores-Bathing, toilet, dressing up, make up , sex etc
4. Prayers and meditation
5. Exercise-Yoga, Gym, Walk etc
6. Commuting to work
7. Work and professional development including networking
8. Spending time with family
9. Socializing with friends
10. Community service
11. Reading (not work related)
12. Watching TV
13. Surfing on the net(not work related)
14. Hobbies- music, sports, dancing etc
15. Any other- please specify

13. Time Investment Plan
• What are the changes that you would like to
bring about in the way you invest time so that
it is aligned to your SIP?
• What would you start doing?
• What would you do more of?
• What would you stop doing?
• What would you do less of?

14. So what happens next?
• Once you realize that you have a “cause” that you
deeply care about, begin the journey of
developing yourself
• What kind of education would enable my
development?
• Which are the sources of this learning?
• How can I get meaningful information to act on
the answers of these questions?

15. Stories of Transformation

16. Stories of Transformation
“The knowledge, experience and insights that SOIL has provided was an important ingredient
in bringing success in being chosen as one of India’s top 25 future HR leaders. I today feel
more competent and confident. I am filled with eagerness to follow the path SOIL has shown
me. Ethics, Sustainability, Diversity, Mindfulness and Compassion, no longer mean words to
me but are an integral part of me. They are the foundation which is shaping my today,
tomorrow and the future..”
“This complete year in SOIL changed my way of looking at things: the way I approach
things, the way I carry myself , the way I perform in a team or as a matter of fact the way I
lead a team. All this came from the entire eco-system and environment provided by the
school and the way it nurtured our gradual transformation. At the end, I was not only an
MBA graduate with higher skills but also a charged up human being ready to do something
for the organization, society and the country at large..”
Avirup Mukherjee
HR Leadership Program | Batch of 2012-13
Sahil Seth
Business Leadership Program
Batch of 2012-13

17. Stories of Transformation
“The first change that I noticed was a dramatic increase in her concern for the
family, and I realized that inculcating deep family values was a strongpoint at SOIL,
a quality much needed in every individual who will eventually bond with his/her
organization as a family..”
“Professionalism and ability to learn are the qualities demonstrated by the SOIL students
hired at HCL. Ability to collaborate and apply their problem solving abilities so as to add
value to the work assigned and produce results in line with desired business outcomes is
highly appreciated..”
Dr. Smita
Mother of Sukriti Sinha Apale
HR leadership program| 2012-13
Prithvi Shergill
Chief Human Resources Officer
HCL Technologies Ltd.

18. Stories of Transformation
“I joined SOIL not just to learn about academics, but to improve myself as a person. I got
a lot of encouragement from staff members and colleagues to participate in unique
events, and this positive energy made me win many events and helped me understand
my strengths. I was blessed with a highly motivational mentor who played a key role in
guiding me about my career path and important decisions in life..”
Sabrish Munendran
Current Batch student –
Marketing Leadership Program
“SOIL is making an attempt to build leaders who are ethical to engage and challenge negative
groups of corrupt policy makers and service providers, compassionate to deal with rising
aspirations and anger & antipathy, at the same time willing to create products and services
which protects and sustains environment and communities around them. Moreover, it is SOIL’s
endeavor to develop leaders who are energetic and passionate to perform better in the
marketplace..”
Yogesh Andlay
Board Member – SOIL
Founder | Nucleus Software

19. “MBA at SOIL gave me a platform for holistic learning and helped me to realize
my unknown self, thereby leading to discover where I want to go and what I want
to do.”
- Gurleen Kaur, SOIL Alumnus, HR Leadership Program, Batch of 2011-12
Present role – HR Consultant, Mercer Consulting Private Limited
Past role – Software Engineer, Infosys Technologies Pvt. Lmt.

20. “Unless we have a definite faith in the goal of our
existence, and unless we believe, work for, and
actually come to experience the goal positively as an
existent factor, there is no hope of any plan becoming
successful.”
By: SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA