What participants, employers, institutions and educators say about FLY. FLY Alumni as of Dec 2025 Rate FLY "Excellent" or "Good" Expect to e personally more effective after FLY training Source: CMI Annual Update 2025 Key Testimonials Institution Leaders How can India be globally competitive and reach a 10% growth target it is capable of reaching? CMI's Finding the Leader in You (FLY) program sharpens key competitiveness mindset non-cognitive skills such as Conscientiousness,

How we learnt what must be taught CMI’s flagship program, Finding the Leader in You (FLY), stemmed from a question that took us 2 years to answer: Why does India lag behind in competitiveness? The question led us to look for the traits responsible for workforce competitiveness. We got our answer in 5 non-cognitive skills through our landmark 2017 research. These skills built the foundation of our flagship program, Finding the Leader in You (FLY), focusing on building, as we c

How do you know if leadership training actually changes behavior — not just how people feel about a workshop, but how they act at their desk three months later? CMI's FLY-Professional Effectiveness Study answers that question by asking people who work closely with each participant — colleagues, managers, peers — to observe and rate real-world behavior across five non-cognitive skills: Conscientiousness, Taking Initiative, Perseverance, Innovativeness, and Problem Solving. Obs

A recent peer-reviewed study from Banaras Hindu University offers an independent look at what leadership training actually lands with students — and FLY (Finding the Leader in You) came up as one of the workshops students chose to talk about, unprompted. Published in the Indian Journal of Extension Education (Vol. 62, No. 4, 2026), the study interviewed 48 female students at Mahila Mahavidyalaya, BHU, about their experience with the university's Leadership and Life Skills Dev

CAG and CMI Partner to Launch ‘Finding the Leader in You’ Program for Government Leaders.

Systematic feedback from FLY Scholar, FLY Junior Scholar and FLY Professional cohorts, reported question by question and year by year. FLY (Finding the Leader in You) is CMI’s cohort-based program that builds five non-cognitive skills: Conscientiousness, Taking Initiative, Perseverance, Innovativeness and Problem Solving. It runs in three versions. FLY Scholar is for college students, FLY Junior Scholar is for school students, and FLY Professional is for working professional

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