Corporate Theatre Experience - Jul 23rd

CT – Jul 23rd – S5 IT Batch – B

Today's Corporate Theatre Session was one among the best workshop which we had experienced. S5 IT batch is having so much of love, passion and energy for team work. Iam sure once they are channelised properly , they will set an example to all in our campus. Sekarji and myself were at our best and best in our delivery with higher comfort level and freedom, which we experienced after a gap of so many workshops. This is our 31st workshop today with 40 participants - Grace of AMMA that we were able to carry out the workshop in a powerful way.

Today's workshop saw an Extra-ordinary performance from Innovative Techies where they were able to manage roles , create sets with optimal resources, portrayed situations in a brilliant way. Feedbacks are - - - - -

[ Participants said that they never expected earlier that this CT will change everyone's life. "CT is Truly amazing". Participants said that We came to know the importance of each person in a team. Everyone is brilliant in some area or other. We tasted success today because of good coordination in each and every step of the process. My confidence level has grown so high to take any challenge in life. No more mental barriers and shyness. It was a great platform to showcase our talents. Team work created magic. There was proper communication in our team that made us succeed. It was beyond my expectations. I learnt more about time management, Collaboration and the kind of response we need to give for changes in life and manage time to execute a task. So let us all get a plan, start working on it and execute it with the things learnt from CT. Really fantastic. Nobody will forget these 3 hours of college life. And CT will be one thing , which will remain in our heart even after college life. No shyness, No ego and we enjoyed to the core. Relaxed state of mind is great. It helped me learn about my talents. Nothing is impossible in this world. You made us so vibrant. Fabulous time of 3 hours, breath taking performance from everyone. Through CT, i have changed myself to an Extrovert. We thank you from the heart for making us realise our true abilities and success often comes to those who dare and act. ]


One thing , i would really compliment these IT ians for their acceptance level and the energy they created for a meaningful workshop. We thank them deeply and pray to Almighty for this batch to give more opportunities for exhibiting their core strengths

Corporate Theatre Experience

Reflection of Corporate Theatre Workshops

CT workshops stress more on Team Building, Self Expression and Self-Confidence.

Well...Jul 16th and 20th workshop did bring in lot of difference to many participants. There was an occasion where the participants got to feel how better they can work in a team when they played game 3...The nuances of competency- energy level - planning were effectively drawn in comparison by the facilitators.

After the workshop was over, we had many people who conveyed in silence that it was a beautiful experience where they had the exhilaration at the peak..And of course, there were some participants who came and thanked us for working a magic in their life through the work

Majority of them stressed on the importance of energy level, team spirit, innovation and how ego can be removed. Many people felt the same experience which we had felt when we took the workshop 4 years ago.

Its all about love in a team. When you live with the team's goal, you could always see vibration that sounds so positive, where each and every individual's brilliance comes to the fore in contributing to the success of theme. There are so many people with hidden talents and CT brings them together as a TEAM.

Thanks to all IT and MCA participants who gave a powerful learning experience for the facilitators.

Successful People

Often we get caught in the mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action. It is a gift that any of us can develop within ourselves. After all, other people had the same knowledge. People other than Ted Turner could have figured out that cable had enormous economic potential. But Turner and Jobs were able to take action, and by doing so, they changed the way of many experience the world.
We all produce two forms of communication from which the experience of our lives is fashioned. First, we conduct internal communications; those things we picture, say, and feel within ourselves. Second, we experience external communications: words, tonalities, facial expressions, body postures, and physical actions to communicate with the world. Every communication we make is an action, a cause set in motion. And all communications have some kind of effect on ourselves and on others.
Communication is power. Those who have mastered its effective use can change their own experience of the worlds and the world’s experience of them. All behaviors and feelings find their original roots in some form of communication. Those who affect the thought, feelings, and actions of the majority of us are those who know how to use this tool of power. Think of the people who have changed our world – John F Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi. In a much grimmer vein, think of Hitler. What these men all had in common was that they were master communicators. They were able to take their vision, whether it was to transport people into space or to create a hate filled Third Reich, and communicate it to others with such congruency that they influenced the way the masses through and acted. Through their communication power, they changed the world.
In fact, isn’t this also what sets a Spielberg, a Springsteen, an Iacocca, a Fonda, or a Reagan apart from others? Are they not masters of the tool of human communication, or influence? Just as these people are able to move the masses with communication, it’s the tool we also to move ourselves.
Your level of communication mastery in the external world will determine your level of success with others – personally, emotionally, socially, and financially. More important, the level of success you experience internally – the happiness, joy, ecstasy, love, or anything else you desire – is the direct result of how you communicate to yourself. How you feel is not the result of what is happening. Successful people’s lives have shown us over and over again that the quality of our lives is determined not by what happens to us, but rather by what we do about what happens.
You are the one who decides how to feel and act based upon the ways you choose to perceive your life. Nothing has any meaning except the meaning we give it. Most of us have turned this process of interpretation on automatic, but we can take that power back and immediately change our experience of the world.
This article is about taking the kinds of massive, focused, congruent actions that lead to overwhelming results. Producing results! Think about it. Isn’t that what you’re really interested in? May be you want to change how you feel about yourself and your world. May be you’d like to be a better communicator, develop a more loving relationship, learn more rapidly, become healthier, or earn more money. You can create all of these things for yourself, and much more, through the effective use of the information in this book. Before you can produce new results, however, you must first realize that you’re already producing results. They just may not be the results you desire. Most of us think of our mental states and most of what goes on in our minds as things that happen outside our control. But the truth is you can control your mental activities and your behaviors to a degree you never believed possible before. If you’re depressed you created and produced that show you call depression. If you’re ecstatic you created that, too.

Students say about Corporate Theatre

Feedback of CT from B tech Batches

This workshop conducted by CCR helped us boost the qualities of self confidence, teamwork and a will to succeed. You won’t be left with the slightest stage fear. - Sridhar NS CSE

The Corporate theatre you offered was the best . It gave a lot of confidence and the feeling of “ even you can do it” - Devika Varma EEE

Corporate theatre gave me a lot of confidence to succeed in campus placements. Thanks to rajesh sir for his corporate theatre – Nupur Prakash IT

It was an unforgettable experience - Anonymous

Juniors need more confidence. Please give them corporate theatre - Anonymous

I thank each and every CCR member for whatever they had done…Esp. the Corporate theater. It did help us a lot in getting to know our inner talents – Swathi B IT

Confidence is the key. Present yourself bold and utter each and every word confidently. Everyone should go through ‘Corporate Theatre’. – Balaji from EEE

BBM Batch

Learnt more about Leadership – Understanding teamwork, free expression of ideas, managing pressure, creating positive attitude, Increasing confidence level, Higher energy level, Coming out of shyness, bringing out inherent qualities.
We can form core groups for each subject. Every subject can have a core group of 4 people who can teach the rest of the students who are interested to learn more and improve the conceptual knowledge of a particular subject. Thanks to Corporate Theatre. We realized that we can do wonders as a TEAM.

Motivation as an attitude

Whenever we start something new – a new project, job or assignment, usually we all are enthusiastic about what we are doing. So we work really hard to create it. But slowly as time passes, people have the tendency to mellow down and end up becoming a bit slack about their work. This is because people have started getting used to what they do and then there is no more enthusiasm left. But, while working in an organization, it is important to keep the momentum up to be a super performer at all times. So, how do we keep the steam going? Does motivation solely lie on the leader’s shoulders to motivate the team?

Motivation is not like a daily dose of medicine. It is a matter of each person’s attitude. If you are thinking long term, you must ensure that your goal is clearly a matter of personal achievement. Motivating oneself is not seasonal. Just because we are now in a recession economy does not mean you should be negative. Motivation should be developed as an attitude.

So what should we do to keep ourselves motivated, alert and kicking? Here are some pointers:

It is important to be connected with successful and motivated people. For instance, our immediate supervisor plays an important role here. As young people we can look up to our boss for motivation based on the quality of his guidance. It has the power to shape our initial experiences in your job. Successful people have the power to charge the environment they are in and this well to get us started.

Though very mundane, it’s a nice idea to keep a record of all our achievements. It can do wonders for our performance. One can write down tasks for the day in a daily diary and tick it off as he/she completes them. This makes the individual feel good at the end of the day as he/she knows how much work is completed. Maintaining this kind of record is also useful during our performance appraisal as we can easily find out the list of things we do daily, plus the extra responsibilities that we have taken up.

It is necessary that we set goals for ourselves and ensure that we achieve them individually. If we are not seeking to add value, we are not aspiring to grow. We cannot concede to become status quo. That is both unnatural and not conducive to personal well being. In growth, we are thriving, learning and changing. In order to change continually, we must learn. A responsible risk taking mentality and trust are the two factors necessary for growth. In an environment of gossip and malice there is only negativity and mistrust. With these two elements, one cannot manage to even think of motivation let alone practice it. So if we have our personal goals in place and want to achieve them, irrespective of the market scenario, and the people around us, we will succeed.

It is important to be proactive with learning. At least once a month let us give an opportunity to learn something new – a skill, knowledge or a new perspective. Every once a quarter, it is nice to do a new task. Doing something different and new keeps us charged up to face challenges. Also we learn various things outside of just our regular job at work. We can even offer to help out with something in other departments to increase our knowledge. This might also earn us the respect of people from other departments.

Negativity or pessimism will only make us feel low. So Let us try taking up a personal pledge never to be negative in any situation. Believe in ourselves. It’s important to believe that good people always have a job. Growth may come slowly but pay packets will get rationalized only over a period of time. A positive person always radiates positivity and thus motivates not just himself but also others around him. Companies/ Educational Institutions usually look out for positive and self motivated people.

Meditation helps calm the mind and think rationally while exercise keeps the mind active. Both of this is important to keep us going. A few minutes of meditation daily, and an extended walk or jog down our alley can go a long way in keeping us way ahead of others.

Personal Qualities and Personality of Leaders

Emotional Resilience: Emotional stress arises in managerial positions because they work in situations that involved authority leadership, power, interpersonal conflict, meeting deadlines all with some degree of uncertainty and ambiguity. Successful Managers need resiliency to cope.

Mental Agility & Creativity: Mental agility includes the ability to grasp problems quickly, to think of several things at once to switch rapidly from one situation to another, to see quickly the whole situation (rather than ponderously plough through all its components) and to think on one’s facts. Because of the hectic nature of managerial work, successful managers must posses these abilities.

Creativity means the ability to come up with new responses and to recognize useful approaches. It involves not only having fresh ideas, but also the ability to recognize good ideas when they come from other sources.

Balanced Learning Habits & Skills: Successful managers learn independently. They take responsibility for the rightness of what they learn, rather than passively depending on an authority figure of expert. Successful managers can think abstractly as well as concretely. The relative concrete ideas to attract one (and vice versa) rather quickly. This ability, sometimes known as a helicopter mind enables them to generate theories to develop their own practical ideas.

Self awareness: The way managers view their roles affect their values, their feelings, strengths and weaknesses, and a host of other people factors. Therefore, we must help them be aware of their abilities and the part they play in determining leadership behavior.

Factors Influencing Leadership Styles:

Personality of leaderships:

Value Systems: How strongly do they feel that individuals should share in decision making? How convinced are they that the officials paid or chosen to assume responsibility should personally carry out the burden of decision making? What relative importance do they attach to organizational efficiency and personal growth of subordinates?

Confidence in Group Members: Leaders differ in the amount of trust they have in other people. After considering the knowledge and competence of a group in dealing with problems, leaders may (justifiably or not) have more confidence in their own capabilities than in those of group members.

Leadership Inclinations: Leaders differ in the way they function most comfortably. For example, directive leaders issue orders and resolve problems easily. Some leaders operate best in a team role where they continually share functions with subordinates.

Feelings of Security in Uncertain Situations: Leaders who release control over the decision making process reduce the predictability of the outcome. Leaders with greater needs for predictability and stability are more likely to “tell” or “sell” than to “join”. Social psychologists increasingly view tolerance for ambiguity as a key in people’s manner of dealing with problems.

Personality of group members: Before deciding how to lead groups, leaders also need to understand the influence of personality variables. Generally, leaders permit groups greater freedom if the following conditions exist:

1. If members have relatively high need for independence;
2. If members have a readiness to assume responsibility;
3. If they have a relatively high tolerance for ambiguity;
4. If they are interested in the problem and feel that it is important;
5. If they understand the identity with the goals of the organizations;
6. If they have the necessary knowledge and experience to deal with the problem.
7. If they expect to share in decision making.

How to be an effective Discussion Leader:

Lending a discussion effectively is a skill that few possess. This ability to bring the combined intelligence and experience of many to bear on a problem effectively and congenially can be developed with practice.

1. Make sure the discussion room is as pleasant as possible and the chairs for the participants arranged in a circle so that all participants can see each other equally easily.
2. Your first task as discussion or group leader is to explain the purposes of the meeting or the precise questions(s) to be discussed.
3. Let the group know exactly its role, e.g. to react to give recommendations, or to decide.
4. Remember the principle: Don’t do it yourself. Let someone else take minutes or be reorder. Redirect questions back to the group. Be a traffic policeman, not a goalkeeper.
5. Don’t be afraid of a little silence at the beginning as members focus on the problem.

Positive Attitude on Work Performance

Surviving a recession needs no superficial platitude. But being positive really helps. When times are uncertain the best you can do is build a positive attitude that brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking especially when you are in the workplace.

What is attitude?
Understanding the connotation of attitude is a complex task. Attitude is our acceptance and reactions of certain ways of life which stems from our individual mindset, which again develops from various factors which can be family and upbringing, environment experiences in human relations etc. Attitude could be rigid, flexible or moderate. The rigidity leads to becoming pessimistic or negative in approach.

Required at Workplace:

Flexibility in your attitude results in optimistic or positive approach. It is this positive approach that employers seek in their employees. They want to hire people who take the initiative and have the motivation to get the job done in a reasonable period of time. It is this passionate employee who creates an environment of good will and who provides a positive role model for others.

A positive something that is most valued by supervisors and co-workers; and it also makes the workplace more pleasant and fun to be in each day.

Better workplace skills:

Research has shown that employees with a brighter outlook tend to demonstrate better workplace skills, simply because:

1. Positivity and optimism develop strong ties with others – employees who are happy spread cheer.
2. Positive people are good communicators and thus the work gets done without much effort.
3. Optimists tend to develop better coping skills and a more supportive social network.
4. Positivity wards off stress.

Develop Positive attitude:

The process of developing positive attitude is gradual and a conscious effort. There are no easy answers to how you can build one, but the following suggestions do stand the test of time.

1. Know yourself – which means you need to be aware of your strengths and weakness.
2. Draw a balance between your outer and the inner self.
3. Appreciate your positive qualities and work on rectifying the negatives.
4. Contemplate upon the futility of negative thinking and worries.
5. Do not be critical of others. Instead be appreciative and respectful
6. Associate yourself with happy employees
7. Respect relationships at work and never take either your seniors or your juniors for granted.
8. Be self-reliant
9. Meditate if required.

Dealing with Negative Co-workers:

Always remember, negativity mongers need a new job, a new company a new career, a new outlook, or counseling. They don’t need you. You need to deal with genuinely negative people by spending as much time as possible. Here are some tips that will come to your rescue:

1. Avoid befriending a negative co-worker
2. Refrain from providing a sympathetic audience to the negative conversations
3. Suggest the negative person seek assistance from human resources or their supervisor
4. Persistent negativity, that impacts co-workers’ work is a work behavior that may require disciplinary action. Speak to your boss or HR manager about it.

There are people who are always complaining either about their boss, their work, their home or social life. At the same time, we also see people who are perpetually smiling and are happy. Does this mean that they are blessed in life with no problems or difficulties? Or is it just a positive attitude?

Satisfied employees are more productive, work more diligently and enhance the organization’s brand value. Satisfied employees demonstrate commitment to service with every customer/client. Pessimistic employees, on the other hand, work to the advantage of your competition while on your payroll. They are usually depressed and transmit these emotions not only to fellow colleagues but also to the clients/ customers.

Well, positive attitude is rated as one of the best traits. Being positive puts a person in command of his entire faculties.