Highlights of Admission and Information Seminar of myBskool

The admission and information seminar of myBskool was very interactive and informative. Mr. Ranganathan, Head of Business Development, of myBskool spoke about the advantages of doing an online management program.

Ranga told the analogy of ‘Unconference’ and how online social media learning brought out the benefits of an Unconference. Unconference works on the principle that the collective wisdom of the audience/learners is often more than the speaker/teacher. Anyone in the audience can come and speak about the topic the expert speaker has started.  The cloud-based social learning platform of myBskool allows to scale the number of learners to even millions, and so the interactive learning can be massive and collaborative.

Ranga showed a demo of a myBskool video on Economics, the quick streaming on both a PC as well as Tablet. He spoke about the benefits of the PGDM programs offered by myBskool and IMT Ghaziabad.

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A Variety of PGDM Courses by myBskool

Statistics and Decision Making - myBskool

Ms. Padmaja Priyadarshini, M.Sc (Statistics), MBA, M.Phil, (Ph.D), has about 8 yrs of teaching experience. She is a Visiting Faculty @ IGNOU and an Entrepreneur. She has delivered the statistics course for myBskool.

           

Operations Management by myBskool

Operations management course for myBskool was delivered by Thirumalai B.E, M.Tech ( IIT - Madras), Visiting Faculty at IIM - B.

            

Quantitative Techniques - Replacement Models

Quantitative Techniques for Management has been delivered by Ms.Padmaja for myBskool. Ms. Padmaja Priyadarshini, M.Sc (Statistics), MBA, M.Phil, (Ph.D) has about 8 yrs of teaching experience, is a Visiting Faculty @ IGNOU and is a successful Entrepreneur.  

myBskool is a b-school in Chennai

myBskool is a b-school in Chennai, offering a bouquet of management courses for working professionals and also others who look for valuable short-term introductory management programs. myBskool has been operational from Jan 2011. myBskool was started by Dr.Swaminathan.K an IIM-B alumunus. K.B.Chandrasekar is the mentor and venture capitalist supporting myBskool.

myBskool offers one year and two year post graduate management programs from IMT Ghaziabad. They also offer Pre MBA and Mini MBA programs for anyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of accounting, business maths, economics, and finance. 

myBskool office is located in T.Nagar, Chennai near Valluvar Kottam and Vidhyodhaya school. Drop in at our office anytime to meet our academic counsellor. 

Business Communication - myBskool

Nature and Scope of Business Communication module for myBskool PGDM course has been delivered by Prof. Uma Gopalakrishnan , Founder SpringBoard Career Development Services & Corporate Trainer. 

Social Media Marketing by Sorav Jain

Industry experts like Sorav Jain have delivered learning modules for myBskool.

         

Marketing Management by Mr. Chandu Nair

Mr.Chandu Nair, co-founder and Executive Director of Scope e-knowlegde centre, visiting faculty at IIM-K, ACME (UK), and BIM (Trichy), a famous speaker, has delivered the Marketing Management module for myBskool PGDM course. Do you like the video? Share your thoughts with us.

         

What Stephen Covey can Tell Executive MBA Aspirants?

Stephen Covey, the author of the famous book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" is no more. We have lost a great trainer and management guru. But, aspiring management professionals can learn a lot from applying Covey's seven habits.

1. Be Proactive: Say you enroll for an online PGDM from myBskool, then you proactively increase your knowledge of management principles and practical tactics used in the shop floor and market.

2. Begin with the End in the Mind: Ultimately, as you grow up the career ladder, you will become a manager. The highest post you can reach is a CEO of a company or start your own successful business venture. Keeping this end destination of your career in mind, you can equip yourself with an online management education program.

3. Put First things First: First, qualify yourself with a management program from a top-notch institute like IMT Ghaziabad, before you become a top-notch manager. Degree first, job role next.

4. Think Win, Win : When you get to do an online management program, you can continue working and also continue studying. So, your employer wins and you also win.

5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood: When you study management strategies, you understand what your seniors are trying to do. You understand the dynamics behind everyday decisions that your managers make. So, you understand your management before you become a manager.

6. Synergize: You synergize or learn along with other experienced working professionals and interact with them in the virtual chat rooms. You, get to see video lessons delivered by professors from IIT, IIM, and doctorates too. 

7. Sharpen the Saw:  You need to constantly improve yourself. To be a sharp and active manager, you need to sharpen your management skills. 

Stephen Covey - Author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

MBA vs PGDM - Which is a Better Option for You?

The MBA degree is seen as a time-tested tag that can open avenues to all types of career aspirations. But, PGDM, its nearest competitor, is more novel, flexible, and practical. myBskool offers PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad that is approved by the Joint Committee(JC) of India. The JC comprises UGC, AICTE, and Distance Education Council(DEC).  Let us understand the basic difference between MBA and PDGM in India-:

1) Only Universities can offer MBA: In India only those management institutes which are affiliated to a university can offer an MBA degree. For this reason institutes like Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies or Faculty of Management Studies can offer MBA degree, as they are affiliated with Pune, Mumbai, and Delhi Universities. Also IIMs, though being the best of the lot, can’t offer MBAs as they are not affiliated with any university. Institutes which are not affiliated to university are autonomous and can offer PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management) degree. However, some of these programmes are approved by regulatory bodies such as AICTE.

2) Difference in Focus of Curriculum: While there are huge similarities in the curriculum of both MBA and PGDM, there are finer points of difference. While MBA focuses more on theoretical aspects of management and is more exam-oriented, PGDM has a focus on building soft skills and is industry-oriented. It prepares you for the job market.

3) Curriculum of PGDM is Flexible: Since an autonomous institute does not have to follow university standards, it is free to change its curriculum according to industry standards and change in business environment. Also a PGDM gives you an industry exposure. Whereas it will take time to change the curriculum for MBAs as it is affiliated with a university and it will essentially follow the university guidelines and changing this curriculum is a very slow process. 

4) Difference in Target : An MBA will help in developing technical skills and business knowledge whereas a PGDM will prepare graduates for senior level positions in industry and paves the way for a strong corporate career. Hence, if you’re looking for a career in the challenging area of management, you should go for PGDM.

5) MBAs are more Affordable: In compared to PGDM, generally MBAs are more affordable as the fees is almost similar to university standard. You can get a rough idea if you compare the fees of IIM and FMS. myBskool offers PGDM at a nominal cost of Rs,60,000. 

Will Babu Get a Management Qualification?

Babu was involved in his family business right from the age of fifteen. He did his under graduation in economics and continued working in his father's medical equipment factory. He traveled abroad for the business expansion and was very successful as a manager. 

However, one day in the factory, Babu overheard one his juniors pass a comment about him. "When half-baked managers run a business, you expect such decisions." He wondered why his junior, a management graduate from a popular institute made such a remark. 

Babu told this incident to his father. His father said, " I was able to manage and keep loyal employees, even though i did not have a management degree. But these days, employees can be both shrewd and vindictive. I think you should try to get an executive MBA."

myBskool is right place for Babu to pursue his management education. The one year PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad is completely online. Babu can access the video lessons from his smartphone or laptop even when he is travelling. And he will get course materials from IMT and will get a wealth of knowledge about management from practicing industry experts. He will be a more confident manager and a future entrepreneur in his own family business. 

Are You Aspiring for a Doctorate in Management?

Kavitha works for a foreign bank. She enjoys her hectic career which involves travel, events, and late hours. But five years from now, Kavitha did not see herself working for a bank. She wanted to start her own firm, be a consultant, and also teach. Yes, teaching was her passion. And she wanted to get a doctorate in management.

She was slightly overwhelmed by the path she has to take. First, a post-graduation in management, and then a doctorate. Where to study, how long will it take? Will the course be cost-effective and recognized?

myBskool has a solution for Kavitha's need. myBskool offers a two year PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad. Those who complete the two year PGDM, can enroll for the PhD program from IMT.  

Online Management Education - Panel Discussion

The interactive panel discussion about 'Online Management Education" went on well on 8th June, 2012. The expert panel had Prof. M.J. Xavier of IIM Ranchi, Prof. Sriram - executive Director of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Prof Ramanathan - Sr Director of ISB, and Mr.Swaminathan.K - CEO of myBskool. Mr.Chandu Nair was the moderator. 

The discussion started of with a reference to Online Management Education as an evolving animal that can take any shape in the future. There is a need for holistic managers and not managers who are specialists with a big head ( good analytic skills) but a lean torso ( poor soft skills). 

'Rethinking the MBA - Business Education at Crossroads' - a book by Harvard professor Dr.Srikant Datar was mentioned often as giving new insights about the subject. A popular saying goes like, "A fool with a tool is still a fool." But, technology will supplement and not substitute classrooms. And teachers will become tutors and facilitators.

Online Management Education is known as the Facebook of Education. But, people have doubts about the quality of relationships and networks in a social learning network. The panel felt that the intensity of any relationship is more important than the length. So, the learning design and student engagement process must be fun and really interactive. For example, the AIDS vaccine was found by a set of young gamers who never met face-to-face. Their interactions were purely online. They saw each other only at the awards ceremony.

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IMT Ghaziabad PGDM - Learn from the Leaders

It is surprising to know that thousands of students enroll for an executive MBA that is not recognized or accredited.What is the point of slogging for one or two years to get a management qualification that is not recognized anywhere?

How nice it would be if a top-ranked b-school can qualify you as a management professional? You are no more a Tom, Dick, or Harry. IMT Ghaziabad has won several awards for its excellent Distance Learning Program. And the online management programs it offers is recognized throughout the world. Don't you want to learn from the leader? Click here to download brochure.

Panel Discussion about Online Management Education - Emerging Trends

Why Working Professionals Prefer Online MBA?

All aspiring professionals will take up managerial and leadership roles as they climb their career ladder. If you are an aspiring professional, you will look for a chance to get a post graduation in management. You plan to equip yourself with theory before you manage people on a real-time basis.

If you start looking at a full-time MBA degree from a reputed management institute, you need to prepare for the admission process. You need to clear CAT, get very good scores. You need to get past a group discussion round. The process sounds challenging, but do you have the time to prepare for this rigorous admission process? Even if you get admission, you need to shell out around 10 lakhs to 11 lakhs as fees.

Do you have the time and money for such a full-time MBA? If not, are there any alternatives?  Yes. There are almost 480 universities offering distance learning MBA. The cost of an online management education is between Rs.50,000 to 1 lakh. Affordable, but is it from a reputed institute?

myBskool has a solution for all your needs. myBskool has a tie-up with IMT Ghaziabad that ranks amongst top 10 b-schools in India. To download the PGDM brochure and look at our sample videos, click here.

No Ragging Online?

Colleges are all set to reopen and youngsters will enter the college premises with dreams and passion. However, the ragging menace always looms large. Is ragging always a threat? Not necessarily. Ragging is an ice-breaker and brings fun and creativity in the initial days of college. And helps to network with seniors who can guide you in studies and around the college campus. Due to ragging, many people fall in love and get married later.

But sometimes the decency limits are crossed during ragging. As students come from diverse backgrounds, what is good for someone may be bad for another. So, ragging is like gambling. The Tamilnadu government has given a mailid raggingcomplaints@gmail.com to which students affected by ragging can send a message.

Online education overcomes the ragging menace. Students meet in the online chat rooms and are focused on clearing subject queries. Higher education Online learners are working professionals and have the maturity to deal with their juniors and peers. So, ragging is not a big threat in Online Education. 

Alvin Toffler's School of Tomorrow

Alvin Toffler, the author of books about change like "Future Shock" and "Revolutionary Wealth", propounds a list of attributes for the School of Tomorrow. Alvin feels that current educational methods cater to the needs of the Industrial Revolution era. The industrial method of working needs all employees to walk into the factory at the same time, work in tandem in the factory line, and mass produce goods. The same model is employed at the schools too. All children walk into the class at the same time, simultaneously take the same set of lessons, and maintain military discipline.

Alvin Toffler envisions a new model of education that caters to the current Knowledge Era of workers. Children can start schools at the age they prefer - one child may start school at age four and another at age eight.

It's (the new school) open 24 hours a day. Different kids arrive at different times. They don't all come at the same time, like an army. They don't just ring the bells at the same time. They're different kids. They have different potentials. Now, in practice, we're not going to be able to get down to the micro level with all of this, I grant you, but in fact, I would be running a twenty-four-hour school, I would have non-teachers working with teachers in that school, I would have the kids coming and going at different times that make sense for them. 

The schools of today are essentially custodial: They're taking care of kids in work hours that are essentially nine to five -- when the whole society was assumed to work. Clearly, that's changing in our society. So should the timing. We're individualizing time; we're personalizing time. We're not having everyone arrive at the same time, leave at the same time. Why should kids arrive at the same time and leave at the same time? 

The textbooks are the same for every child; every child gets the same textbook. Why should that be? Why shouldn't some kids get a textbook -- and you can do this online a lot more easily than you can in print -- why shouldn't a kid who's interested in one particular thing, whether it's painting or drama, or this or that, get a different version of the textbook than the kid sitting in the next seat, who is interested in engineering?

I think that schools have to be completely integrated into the community, to take advantage of the skills in the community. So, there ought to be business offices in the school, from various kinds of business in the community.

Alvin Tofflers School of Tomorrow:

These are the fundamentals of the futurist's vision for education in the 21st century:

• Open 24 hours a day
• Customized educational experience
• Kids arrive at different times
• Students begin their formalized schooling at different ages
• Curriculum is integrated across disciplines
• Nonteachers work with teachers
• Teachers alternate working in schools and in business world
• Local businesses have offices in the schools
• Increased number of charter schools

The management programs at myBskool match all parameters put across by Alvin Toffler. Check out the PGDM that myBskool offers along with IMT Ghaziabad. Click here.

Great Leaders Inspire Action with the Golden Circle

The communication style of leaders in business and community follows a style - Why, How, and What. They first appeal to your soul with a 'Why' and then give your brain details of 'How' and 'What'.