FDP on Art of Managing Stress during Pandemic amongTeaching Fraternity".
SRI GURU TEGH BAHADUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, DELHI
REPORT ON FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME JUNE 15-20, 2020
A Faculty Development Programme was organized by SGTBIMIT from 15 June to 20 June, 2020 on the topic of “Art of Managing Stress during Pandemic amongTeaching Fraternity". In lieu of the efforts to stem the spread of the Pandemic COVID-19 through interventions and preventive measures such as social-distancing and self-isolation, the FDP was organized in the virtual mode. This was a six day Faculty Development Programme where various related subtopics were discussed in detail by eminent educationists and a very beneficial academic environment was experienced by all the participants. The FDP programme received an overwhelming response with participants from various other institutes and colleges.
DAY 1- JUNE 15, 2020
The FDP started with the Inaugural Address by Prof.(Dr.) Navneet Kaur, Director, SGTBIMIT. The speaker was Mr. Utpal Talukdar, Soft skills Trainer, ICT. He is having more than 10 years of experience in training and industries. His core competency includes progammes on corporate trainings, change management and leadership skills workshops.
Mr. Utpal Talukdar focussed on the topic "STRESS AND WORK PERSPECTIVES ON UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING STRESS". He discussed good and bad stress and how one can easily overcome this stress!!
DAY 2- JUNE 16, 2020
Mr. Utpal Talukdar, Soft skills Trainer from ICT was the speaker for the day. He is having more than 10 years of experience in training and industries. His core competency includes programmes on corporate trainings, change management and leadership skills workshops.
Mr. Utpal Talukdar focussed on the topic "CAUSES OF STRESS AND IT's IMPACT ON OUR LIVES". The session was very motivating and encouraged all the faculty members to overcome their stress so that the stress should not be an obstacle in their lives!
DAY 3- JUNE 17, 2020?
The speaker of the day was Mr. M K Tamuly. Mr. M K Tamuly is Principal Director PIBM Group of Institutes. He has over 30 years of experience in Industry in the field of Organization Development, HRD, Training & Development, Total Quality Management, Personnel & Industrial relations, Strategic Management, Operational Management & Project Management. He has worked in both MNC & leading Indian companies in the capacity of VP & Director and headed functions like HR/OD, Operations, Project Management and TQM.
Mr. Tamuly enlightened the Faculty members on “STRESS MANAGEMENT AMONG ACADEMICIANS”. Everyone could easily relate to the topic and it was a very interactive session and all the faculty members actively participated and appreciated the efforts of the speaker.
DAY 4- JUNE 18, 2020?
The speaker for today was Mr. Amit Poddar from TIMES. He is having 16 years of experience in industry, academics, corporate training. He is a graduate from Sri Venkateswara college and an MBA from Indian Institute of planning and Management. He has Worked for a US based MNC-Primus Telecom for two yrs and then shifted to Education Industry and Headed a Pune based Company-Bull's Eye for 3 and a half yrs and looked after Academics and Marketing. He enlightened the Faculty members on "TIME MANAGEMENT TO DEAL WITH STRESS". He focussed on how to manage our work and expectations so that we can live a stress free life. It was a very motivating session for everyone!!
DAY 5- JUNE 19, 2020
Prof. Neeta Mathur was the Key note speaker of the day.As a HR specialist, she has been involved in strategic and results-oriented Organizational Development & Change Management initiatives, Performance Management, Assessment Centres, Management Development including conceptualizing and delivering training programs for enhancing individual / organizational effectiveness. She has delivered programmes in companies like Tanishq (Titan Company Ltd), Jumbo Electronics, SKEC, Indian Oil Corp, NTPC, Excel Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, SM Group, SMS India Pvt Ltd, MECL and GAIL India Ltd to name a few. She is also a certified POSHA educator and is empanelled as External Member in ICC of few organisations.
She focussed on the topic of "ART OF MANAGING STRESS". All the faculty members participated enthusiastically and were motivated to overcome their stress. The session was made interesting by showing videos and calculating stress levels of all the partcipants!!
DAY 6 - JUNE 20, 2020
There were 2 sessions organised on day 6 of the FDP. The first session was the Yoga session for all the Faculty members organized by Dr. Raj Kumar, HOD - I.T Department, SGTBIMIT. The session was dedicated to the Yoga Day which is being celebrated on 21st June. Dr. Raj Kumar focussed on the concept of meditation that how it can be used to live stress free life. He showed various asans of yoga and explained their benefits. All the faculty members practiced those asans along and were very delighted to learn yoga and meditate.
The speaker for the second session was Dr. Bhawna Arora, Consultant Psychiatrist at Fortis Healthcare. She has done her Post graduation in Psychiatry ( DPM) from Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP, Ranchi). Also did DNB from VIMHANS Delhi. She has been contributing to the field of Mental Health by having served at various other prestigious hospitals in Delhi NCR.
SGTBIMIT is very grateful to Dr. Bhawna Arora for such an informative session on Stress and how it can be avoided. She explained the reasons and causes for stress and how it can be medically treated. She focussed on how stress can be so dangerous but at the same time we can certainly overcome it easily.
