LeadCap: Building a Nation of Leaders

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The LeadCap Way - How Would We Achieve Our Vision?

LeadCap is a movement to empower every individual, helping them to make the leadership decision. LeadCap believes that this would soon create a parallel to the American Dream, where every Indian would be empowered to take up the leadership mantle, in whatever ways, in which ever spheres, transforming the world's largest democracy to the first leadership democracy.

LeadCap would achieve this vision, through a set of

@ Strong Beliefs

@ Innovative Activities

@ Unconventional Delivery Model

Strong Beliefs

@ Teaching how to fish is better than providing fish: Helping marginalized individuals discover their true potential would help them more in the longer term than any other aid. This way they would help themselves, as well as the society

@ Leadership is a decision, not a position: Individuals who emerged as some of the greatest leaders had nothing extraordinary about them. Anyone could be a leader irrespective or birth or living conditions, if willing to decide

@ Leaders breed more leaders: More individuals would embrace the leadership mantle, if they are made aware that leadership is a decision. Hence, true leaders are those who nurture more leaders, not followers

@ More on Our Beliefs

Innovative Activities "Leaders are those individuals who have found their voice, in a cause that they believe in"

1. LeadCap Stand Up, Speak Out: A forum based out of schools/colleges to help more youngsters find their voice about issues they care.

@ Guidance on what to voice, how to voice, where to voice. Interschool interactions (for eg. Between govt. and private schools) help youth discover and appreciate individual level homogeneity and idea level heterogeneity.

@ To promote ability to voice opinion, confidence to stand up for causes, tolerence for diversity of ideas, critical thinking, challenging assumptions and thoughts

@ Activities include debates, rhetoric, group discussions and counselling sessions:

@ "Leaders are writers. Writing amplifies the leader's voice"

2. Write for Right:Forum to help individuals discover their writing potential to magnify their impact on the causes that they stand for.

@ To help them gain more clarity on their ideas. Based on a belief that everyone has a potential to write.

@ Activities include workshops, interactive sessions as well as a forum to start writing.

@ Takes this talent on to the next level by helping them publish columns, articles and books. Columns include Businessworld, Times of India, Vijay Karnataka, Dainik Bhaskar, Lakshya, Divya Bhaskar, Lokmat etc.

@ "Today's leaders expanding tomorrow's leaders"

3. LeadCap Dare to Dream: A series of Panel discussions, expert talks and motivational talks.

@ To empower more leaders through learning and interaction sessions with experts, challenging them to think bigger.

@ To supplement through mentoring sessions.

@ A complementary activity to LeadCap Stand Up Speak Out. Where as Dare to Dream is about learning from an external trigger, Stand Up, Speak Out would be about learning from internal triggers and each other.

@ "Leaders breed more leaders"

4.LeadCap Lead on India ON:Workshops to empower and equip more people with leadership skills.

@ Multidisciplinary workshops drawing from management, sociology, psychology, etc. covering areas like visionising, team building, communication, motivation, driving change, negotiation, breaking thought and action barriers etc.

@ Pushing more people to come out of their comfort zones to drive positive changes in the society.

@ Equipped leaders are empowered to create more leaders around.

5. LeadCap Story Boards: Pin up boards to share leadership stories and experiences of people to encourage more to step in.

6. LeadCap Magazine: To reach out the leadership message to more and more youngsters.

7. LeadCap Leadership Marches: Currently undertaken in Bangalore, to awaken more individuals, to come out of their comfort zones, to take responsibility and to contribute to the development of the nation.

8. LeadCap Everywhere: To spread the leadership message everywhere. By constantly innovating various activities and forums.

@ Volunteer to Build a Nation of Leaders

Unconventional Delivery Model A hub and spoke model, where a hub in every state reaches out to all the areas through spoke centres.

Two kinds of spokes to spread faster:

@ New Spokes: These could be started up by individuals or by organizations/educational institutions aligning to the cause of LeadCap.

@ Existing organizations/clubs: Helping them get on to the next level by associating with the vision of LeadCap. They are allowed to keep their existing organization structure, while benefiting from LeadCap branding, mentoring, media and networks.

@ In both the cases there are some broad guidelines and activities to choose from, and leaders to handhold. The focus is on empowering more leaders, the only parameter on which the success of spokes are measured.

@ Join a LeadCap Spoke