Peer Learning, Leadership And Teamwork At IIM Raipur

Leadership and teamwork are the two extremes of a continuum. While we do not undermine the importance of a leader in the success of a team, the critical factor always remains to be the team itself, as a single unit. At IIM Raipur, teamwork has evolved to be an integrated part of the culture over the past 5 years. The students take great pride in what they achieve while working together and go to great lengths to co-ordinate with the team, at times sacrificing their individual goals. They achieve this by individually playing to their strengths and complementing each other as a team. Mostly the team work is done when students have to work on assignments or group projects. A team of 5 to 6 work together with each working in their respective areas of interest and strengths. Seeing this from a different perspective, whole of the institute works as team during important events like HR summit, GSMC, etc. The best example of this is when our director himself helped students with arranging the infrastructure during the initial years of the institute. This shows the importance of teamwork as a part of the culture and how it developed over the years at IIM Raipur.

While working in a team, one gets to see everyone at their best helping him or her to learn from their peers and add value to one’s own professional as well as personal life. The profiles of the students cater to various educational backgrounds enabling them with a wide variety of skill sets. Peer learning starts right from day one, when the students attend the orientation programme and get to know each other for the first time. This is enhanced when they work on the assignments, presentations and prepare for the exam in a group and enhance each other’s knowledge. This learning leaves a deep impact on the personality of the student and develops them into a better person by changing them from the inside out. By the end of the programme, each one of them carries a little bit of the other students in his nature and personality.

Students enter the campus with a lot of dreams, hopes and aspirations and IIM Raipur ensures that they take away more than what they can ask for or dream of. The memories of team work, of occasions where one had to lead and of the learning that one gets from his peers, transforms one into an entirely different individual by the end of their journey. All in all, we can conclude that IIM Raipur adds lot more than a professional degree to one’s life.