Certificate Programs & Masterclasses
We are very excited to announce the launch of Arthan's certificate programs and masterclasses for the social impact community. These will be run by renowned faculty that include experts, practitioners, researchers and educators from across the world, who will provide their specialised expertise on different topics and enable learning that will build effective organisations.
Satyam Vyas, Founder & CEO, Arthan
Rahul Balakrishnan, Co-founder, Arthan
Masterclass: Impact Careers - Making the Right Choices
Looking to build and advance you career in social impact? Join Arthan for a masterclass that takes you through the nuts and bolts of searching for jobs, finding the right opportunities and making the right choices, negotiating salaries and more. You can also get answers to specific questions related to your profile that can help you create opportunities and take you towards your ideal career.
The country is reeling under the devastating impact of Covid - 19. Citizens, organisations. healthcare professionals are doing their utmost to support affected families and individuals in any way they can. We are using this masterclass as an opportunity to help support the many wonderful initiatives out there. To register:
1. Select any of the Covid relief initiatives and fundraisers that you believe in
2. Donate any amount of your choice
3. Share a screenshot/acknowledgment of the donation with us at: info@arthancareers.com. We will share the Zoom meeting credentials for the Masterclass with you
DATE:
May 28, 2021 | 4:30 - 5:30 PM
Certificate: Achieving Organisational Success Through Integrated People Strategies
Led by: Kattie Capozza (Founder, Disco Porcupine LLC, Former Executive at The Walt Disney Company, and Global Head of Talent for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Do you find that your people strategies constantly lag your business strategy making it challenging to achieve your goals? You developed a program or business strategy that you are excited about but then discover you don’t have the talent or people processes in place to activate that plan? Do you find yourself constantly reorganising people in order to be more effective at achieving your goals? Do you struggle to find the talent you need or to retain the talent you have?
Join us for this course with Kattie Capozza, Founder of Disco Porcupine LLC, to explore an approach to creating a people strategy that is deeply entrenched and integrated with your organisations strategies and financial framework. This course is presented in 3-4 modules focused on: Strategy Exploration, Creating the Path and Implementing Your Plan. The course will start in November and will be conducted virtually in 2020.
What you will take away from this program series by Kattie Capozza/Disco Porcupine?
A holistic approach to strategy development that partners program/business priorities, financial responsibilities, and people strategies
An understanding of the three phases to strategy development, their importance, and some approaches to consider within each phase
Awareness of the benefits of this approach and the pitfalls many organisations experience by not having people strategies developed as a component of organisation strategy
DATE: Dec-Jan 2020
DURATION: 10 hours (6 hours classroom and 4 hours of assignments)
FEE:
INR 4999/- for practitioners/students from India (PAY HERE)
USD 99/- for international practitioners/students (PAY HERE)
Mandy Chooi
Elizabeth Lembke
Masterclass: Designing your organization for the 21st century
Newsflash: you do not need to model your Organization after one from 1962. There are other ways.
Type: Certification Program. Open Masterclass as the first session. Followed by 5-7 sessions in the program.
Presenter: Mandy Chooi & Elizabeth Lembke
Designing an organization is not hard – but it does require conscious thought around what kind of organization you want to be. We will help you gain the competence and confidence to do just that, with this practical, modern, well-researched course, that manages to offer serious learning, serious fun, and serious social connections!
When setting up (or planning to change) an organization, the first important thing is knowing what your organization stands for and where you want to go. The second is understanding that everything that happens in an organization is driven by human needs and motives. Therefore our structure, processes and ways-of-working, needs to work with, and not against these. And if you’ve set up these things to flow together, your organization will have a good chance of achieving its purpose, while enjoying a vibrant culture where people thrive.
Guaranteed benefits
This will reduce the chicken-without-a-head mad chase, or the copy-paste-and-pray method, both of which suck up a lot of energy and produce significant casualties!
We will help you first think through what kind of organization do we want to be, and immediately experiment with practical tips for what could work to make that happen.
By taking the time to become clear on the ground you stand on (your context, principles and beliefs), how you show up (the culture and leadership that will make you proud), and what you do everyday (talent ecosystem, power structure, processes and ways of working) that makes for a healthier organization - we help leaders build organizations that are not only better to work for, are effective in accomplishing what they set out to do, but also one people believe in and can see their impact directly.
Who should attend:
This course on how to build organizations is helpful for social impact orgs; volunteer orgs, small, medium sized or large establishments, as well community activist networks. It’s for all of you who've experienced the pains of a traditional, hierarchical organization but are unaware - as of yet - of other ways to set-up an organization that actually works well and is based in a common purpose.
If you currently lead, are setting up, or need to change, the workings of one of these types of organizations, this course is for you. Attend individually, or bring your entire team with you.
What you will take away:
Understand the major shifts that shape organizations and work, and how these shifts are accelerating, often in unpredictable ways, in our current volatile and uncertain world context.
Learn to choose purposefully what really matters, and how to flex with agility, responding and improvising to all the rest.
Practical tools and frameworks to think and do things differently.
Apply hands-on practice to a real life case you bring.
Time to apply and debrief outcomes and learnings over the course of the weeks.
To find yourself in these aspirational yet challenging goals – what is most difficult for you personally to make this change happen? What strengths do you have that sets you apart?
Learning, supporting and bonding with a community of thinkers and doers – going farther together with people who share your passion.
‘Only Wicked Minds Solve Wicked Problems’: Systems Thinking for the 21st Century
Led by Rajesh Kasturirangan, Socratus
India's social sector has always faced complex challenges, but with the COVID19 crisis, these problems have become 'wicked,' i.e., characterized by extreme complexity, where some stakeholders have a vested interest in keeping the system the way it is and where every pathway has moral as well as material dimensions. The human tragedy of migrant labourers stuck in large cities and making their way back home on their own is a good example.
Socratus is pioneering a fresh approach to wicked problems, where we believe that instead of solving them 'directly' we are better off looking at them along with the minds of the people embedded in the problem; make those minds wiser and we have a better chance overall. In other words: only wicked minds solve wicked problems.
The natural question: how to cultivate wicked minds? This session will expose you to some of the approaches to cultivating wicked minds and some of the tools we are building to help do so.
Write to us at info@arthancareers.com if you are interested in this program.
Understanding State Capabilities
By Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research
Public systems across sectors in India are inadequate and lack of accountability is a binding constraint. Weak technical and administrative capacity of public authorities act as an impediment in running a transparent, decentralised and well-functioning state.
‘Understanding State Capabilities’ places state capability at the front of this debate on governance and accountability. By underlining the capability gap in the governance structure, participants are equipped to understand the root causes of administrative failure on the ground. The course will take you on a journey through India’s complex government system from the lens of decentralisation. You will undertake a critical analysis of the two mechanics of government functioning - public administration and public finance, and finally evaluate your own role as citizens in strengthening accountability.
The course draws on real examples from Accountability Initative’s own research work in sectors such as education, health, sanitation, nutrition from across India. Through a mix of presentations, videos, handouts, quizzes and interactive learning tools, you will:
● Build a nuanced understanding of government structures
● Learn why state capability matters in service delivery implementation
● Be able to assess weaknesses and gaps in service delivery implementation based on the foundation of your understanding of state capability
● Learn about the importance and relevance of social accountability
● Be able to apply a systems thinking approach to building state capability at the frontline
Who should participate?
If you are a young professional in the development sector or a student interested in knowing more about the Indian state, this course is for you.
Format: The course is entirely online and delivered in English. It is self-paced. Duration: Through the year. You will have access to the course for 2 months from the date of signing-up.
Effort: Approximately 20 hours (recommended: 4 hours a week for 5 weeks) Certificate: You will receive a certificate from the Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research on successful completion of the course.
Fee: TBA
For more details and queries, write to usc@accountabilityindia.org