Welcome June 2012

Corporates and non-profits use calendars to advance their brands. The 2012 year calendar of NGO Pratham Books has beautiful sketches, drawings, and tips that reflect their work - educating poor kids thro picture books. Mediaadds has come out with a calendar that has a fable and management message for each month. At the beginning of the year we get so many calendars that we can hang one in each of our rooms including the bathrooms! So much for branding!

Read, Read, and Read

Everyday, a manager has to take important decisions. So, a manger has to read a lot to know the current economic, political, cultural, technology, and environmental scenarios. Daily, on an average, a good manager will read 50-100 pages of information. The source of information and data can be leading newspapers, magazines, blogs, journals, bestselling non-fiction books, and sometimes even fiction. If you don't have the habit of reading, you need to atleast listen to audiobooks. On the whole, reading is an activity that no manager can escape.

But with information explosion, one needs to have power reading skills. Improving your reading skills will help you to gather key points in a short time. Keeping reading in mind, the IMT Ghaziabad PGDM syllabus includes 'Reading Skills' module under Business Communication.

What is Blue Ocean Strategy?

Blue Ocean Strategy aims at creating new markets and not competing with existing markets. Innovate and succeed.

Tribes and Tribal Leadership

In this interesting TED video, David Logan speaks about the 5 stages of a tribe. All of us live in tribes. And we need to evolve and reach the Level 5 for maximum performance and global good.

Stage 1: People do horrible things - guns, prisons - (2%)
Stage 2: Life sucks - lack initiative, dumb - (25%)
Stage 3: I'm great, and you are not - narcissistic - (48%)
Stage 4: A team passion greater than individual competence - fun, creativity - (22%)
Stage 5: Life is Great - good values - (2%)

Who Can Opt for an One Year Management Program?

Say, you have around 5-15 years of work experience. You are a high performer. You plan to continue in your same field of work e.g electronics, construction engineering, or pharma. You want to equip yourself with a management qualification from a reputed institute - so that you are more confident in front of clients. You also feel that getting a management qualification will help your appraisals and promotion prospects.

Not sure where to take up the course? Visit myBskool. myBskool offers a recognized PGDM in Management from IMT Ghaziabad. It is a one year program. The program has interesting features. 

• Online Course - No Classess to attend
• No break from work
• Anytime, Anywhere learning.
• Widely Recognized by Leading Corporates.
• Exhaustive Study Materials
• Video lectures delivered by Management Gurus 
• Collaborative features for interaction and Social Learning 

To know about IMT advantage, Click here.

Jay Cross - India has to Democratize Learning Now

Informal Learning guru Jay Cross says, "India needs to train 500 million people in the next ten years. Some have proposed building thousands of new schools and colleges. Yet if the building program began in earnest tomorrow, there still wouldn’t be enough time to build the required classrooms — some six times what India has today.

What would those schools teach? The half-life of a professional skill is down to five years and is shrinking fast. It makes no sense to train people on skills that will become obsolete in short order. I’ll suggest that people need to learn meta-skills, such things as:

• learning how to learn
• critical thinking and conceptualization
• pattern recognition
• design thinking
• working with one another
• navigating complex environments
• software literacy

India has neither time nor resources to prepare teachers to transfer these skills to hundreds of millions of people. The answer? Flip Indian education. Delegate the delivery of content to electronic means, and focus teachers on coaching, leading discussions, helping people over hurdles, and relating lessons to real life. Also, teach students and workers to help teach themselves. The time is ripe for India to democratize education, to help students to think for themselves and realize their potential. " 

myBskool offers The Flipped Classroom

What is a Flipped Classroom? In a Flipped Classroom, the student learns curriculum lessons at his/her own pace using a PC, tablet, or mobile. And then comes to class for debates, discussions, and clearing doubts. 

In traditional methods of teaching inside brick-and-mortar classrooms, the student sits in the class for more than six hours. The student cannot take a break from the lecture, switch to a different topic, or replay an interesting chunk of lecture. The Flipped Classroom helps the student to overcome such learning bottlenecks.  

In a Flipped Classroom, the student is proactive in the classroom and is not a passive listener. He or she comes prepared with a set of questions and has a definite purpose while attending the classroom sessions. Networking, communication, and brainstorming happens in the classroom, leading to a lively session. 

To view the Flipped Classroom that myBskool has designed for IMT Ghaziabad, click here.

To know about the Flipped Classroom that myBskool will design for IIM Ranchi, click here.

What does Thomas Friedman feel about Online College Education?

Three times Pulitzer prize winner Thomas Friedman, and author of the book “The World is Flat,” gives a Thumbs Up to Online College Education.

“Welcome to the college education revolution. Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary. The costs of getting a college degree have been rising faster than those of health care, so the need to provide low-cost, quality higher education more acute than ever. At the same time, in a knowledge economy, getting a higher-education degree is more vital than ever,” the Pulitzer prize winner writes. 


“And thanks to the spread of high-speed wireless technology, high-speed Internet, smartphones, Facebook, the cloud and tablet computers, the world has gone from connected to hyperconnected in just seven years. Finally, a generation that has grown up on these technologies is increasingly comfortable learning and interacting with professors through online platforms.” 

Are you convinced about Online Learning? Now are you thinking of an online management program? Then visit myBskool. myBskool programs have been built for a three-screen platform — PC, tablet and smart phone. And offers 6,000 audio/ podcast and 2,500 video lectures, delivered by management professors and experts from around the country.

Look at Online Studyroom of myBskool

How does the Online Study Room of myBskool look like? When you enter the Online Study Room you can see a list of Management Subjects such as Strategic Management, Financial Accounting, Business Law, and Foundation of IT. When you select the Management topic you want to learn, a list of sub-topics are displayed.

Every sub-topic has video lectures, powerpoint presentations and assessments. The video lectures are delivered by highly qualified and experienced management professionals and lecturers. The PowerPoint presentations have accompanying audio. The assessments test the learning outcomes using multiple-choice and other question models. So, the studyroom gives an enriching learning experience.

Do you want to see a demo of the courses? Click here. Register, view, and give us a feedback about the Studyroom.

Studyroom Videos

Studyroom Powerpoint Presentations

Studyroom Assessments

IMT Ghaziabad - Centre for Distance Learning

Do you want a PGDM from a management institute that ranks Number 1 in Online Education? Then contact myBskool to enroll for a IMT Ghaziabad program.

 

myBskool - Online Management Education

Gaurav in an engineer and is eagerly awaiting promotion at work. He is a team player and a good leader and is assured of a promotion. Nevertheless, he has a nagging feeling that he is not an academically qualified  Management Professional. Some of  his juniors have a Management qualification.

"So, its high time i qualify myself," thought Gaurav. But, he is married and cannot not afford to take a break from his career. He has invested in life insurance schemes and has only limited funds for his higher education. Gaurav is also dreaming of a qualification from a reputed management school.

Can Gaurav fulfill his dream? Is there a good solution for his future growth?

Yes.myBskool is a one-stop-solution for all your management degree dreams. myBskool offers a one year PGDM from the reputed Institute of Management and Technology, Ghaziabad. Who will hesitate to get  a cost-effective degree while learning from their home PC? Are you in Gaurav's position today? If so, be quick and contact course counsellors at myBskool.

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