The challenge for women living in rural India is more severe as compared to their urban counterparts. In rural societies, gender discrimination reduces economic opportunities for girls and young women. Deprivation and bias, cultural norms force many girls from poor families into early marriage and childbearing, where they are physically exploited. The burdens of domestic tasks are added. Impoverishment compels several young women to hunt employment within the formal sector, wherever they notice themselves restricted to low-skilled jobs with negligible financial gain potential, long hours and unequal power relations that always cause exploitation. Opportunities for girls in rural areas are restricted, because of restricted mobility and access to education.
WE BELIEVE solution for all these types of problems for rural women is empowering them through skill development and entrepreneurship .
Women have the capability to accelerate the economic growth of the country, if their participation in the workplace is increased.
Sleepwell Foundation presents Chhoti Seekh Badi Jeet, a video series with Richa Anirudh, famous media personality, to skill rural women with soft skills to enhance their personal development and growth. These videos are also intended to create awareness of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Skill India Mission of our Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi.
These video series, comprising various topics from the curriculum of Skill Development for Better Productivity, as is taught for entrepreneurship development, is made for self learning. In content and in language that can be understood by all, we wish these videos enhances skill, change mindset, creates emotional wellness and most of all transform lives.
The first episode of this series to enhance personal skill for better productivity is Cleanliness. Clean Self, Clean Home, Clean Neighbourhood & Clean India.
Chhoti Seekh Badi Jeet is a self learn video series to skill rural women with soft skills to enhance their personal development and growth.
The second episode of this series is to improve interactions with other people. These skills are personal attributes that influence how well you can work or interact with others and they make it easier to form relationships with people, create trust and dependability, and lead teams.
In essence, they are essential for success in the workplace, company’s success and for personal life.
The third episode of this series is on practicing time management and in setting goals, the two necessary elements for success.
Learning how to effectively manage time in setting goals that are specific, measurable, attainable and realistic can significantly reduce the stress and feelings of work overload and make your life more stimulating and emotionally well.
Leadership and Teamwork are the two sides of the same coin and the symbiotic relationship between these two can hardly be overemphasized.
The most competent leader could be staring at the face of failure if the team that is led fails to measure up to the leader’s objectives and teams can be rudderless without effective and wise leadership.
Obviously, leadership and teamwork cannot exist without each other. They have to be balanced, coordinated, and synergized for successful outcomes.
In the fourth episode of this series, let's learn about these and practice them in our work-environment for optimum results and in improving our emotional wellness, too.
Life is full of navigating the decisions we must make, problem solving challenges and resolving big and small conflicts in people, time and situations.
The effect of our decisions, right or wrong decides not only how we steer our professional lives but also effects our personal life.
And a good decision is always rewarding and brings emotional wellness too.
