Monday, March 23, 2009

Guest speech of Ramji Raghavan

Report on guest speaker

Mr. Ramji Raghavan   was born in Tamilnadu and  studied in USA. He consulted to Morgan Stanley & Company International Limited and served as a Director of the Ayurvedic Company in London

 After quitting his job from City Bank he  formed Agastya International Foundation in April, 1999. It is an innovative education model in India.  Agastya is promoting science education through mobile labs, science centres, in three states.

He spoke for 2 hour, his talk focused on the journey of Agastya foundation. But it also a learning’s to us how the organization bloom. What are the challenges an organizer may face during the course of starting an organization.

The people learn things in different ways. Only 5% people learn by lecture, 10% from readings, and 50% by seeing and hearing, 80% by discussion and 90% by experience.

The good listener will be a good speaker; a good speaker can get the confidence of the people, confidence of the people make big difference in scaling the work.

These are the important things spoke by the speaker in the class.

 

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