Many
of the top MBA colleges in Delhi NCR have designed their academic curriculum to
offer a window beyond classroom learning. Some of the top MBA colleges in Delhi
NCR have gone an extra mile by incorporating lifestyle management modules as
non-credit courses and organizing cams, workshops and events for aspiring
managers to soak up knowledge form unconventional sources. While the discipline
based teaching methodology continues to be the norm and hence classroom
teaching based on lecture sessions is the finest way to learn technical and
analytical skills, it has been observed that classroom teaching leaves a gap
between knowledge and attitude building. In most cases, as practicing managers
realize the market is a cruel place. It rewards the efficient and punishes the
inefficient. Under such circumstances even the most knowledgeable students may
fail to do justice to their merit owing to lack of attitude and character.
Finding the Missing Link between
Skills and Attitude
At
Ishan Institute of Management & Technology, the first and the best MBA College
in Greater Noida, we have designed an academic curriculum that gives ample
breathing space to students to build attitude, character and hone their
temperament to sustain at the highest level in the corporate sector. In recent years we have also worked closely
with students of the faculty of business administration to find out ways to
close the gap between skills and attitude, potential and performance and groom
them for boiler room situations that they are to face in their careers for the
rest of their lives. One of the most enjoyable ways of learning lifestyle
management and building character in aspiring managers is to push them to hit
the road solo!
Adventures of a Solo Traveler
& Aspiring Manager
There
are tons of similarities between the aspirations of a solo traveler and a
fresh management graduate. The mindset and the temperament that is required to
face a situation that is characterized by unknown people, places and physical
evidences bridges the gap between solo travelling and business. As such most
solo travelers travel for fun while expatriate managers are men on mission and
hardly have any time for recreation. At Ishan Institute, we assert that the
best way to learn handling a mission is to think of it as adventure. Adventure
enables aspiring managers to be driven by a need for achievement and the rush
of the adrenaline. Adventure automatically reinforces the concept of market
based meritocracy that rewards the efficient and penalized the inefficient.
When business academicians at Ishan Institute talk to students on motivation,
many students in the first year assert that their level of motivation depends
on how much they love the end result that they shall gain from completing a
task. We rectify this anomaly telling them it is not the result that matters.
Result goals create negative work pressure and fear in the mind. We urge them
to focus on the performance goal not the result goal. This applies to both solo
travel based adventure and business. Performance goal setting sets the tone for
the rush of adrenaline. More over love for a result that we wish to gain is
looked at from a soft corner and aspiring managers may be dubiously compelled
to believe that in order to win all that they need to do is just hit the road
or as sportsmen say appear on the field. This mindset is a recipe for disaster.
Students need to realize that loving a goal means how much they are willing to
sweat and bleed for it. How much are they willing to sacrifice for it? When you
hit the road alone and know that a reckless move undertaken in gay abandon may
backfire and it usually does, they learn the virtues of being alert, optimizing
their resources like food, clothes, money and time. When there is something at
stake for a traveler he not only paddles his bicycle fast but after a fall or
two, learns to paddle smart.
Marketing is the Biggest Solo
Adventure
Imagine
a boy from the interior of the North East making headway for a place like
Ladakh. Ladakh in itself is not going to be the sole teacher. The journey from
the North East of India through the eastern plains, the Gangetic north and up
the Himalayas shall teach him a lot more. Each journey is a mission for every traveler. Issues like the unknown geographical terrain, unknown language,
unknown food, unknown people and the mist on the screen are challenges that
force him to make the best possible use of every resource at his disposal.
Fraudulent travel agents, thugs at tourist spots, mischievous retailers on the
pavements, a hostile crowd of local people soaked in cultural orthodoxy; delays
in bus, air and rail services, the unusually long waits at the travelers’ lounge and many such annoying experiences are bound to happen. Each such bitter
experience enables learning and makes the traveler more alert and keeps him on
his toes. By the time the traveler reaches home after completing the journey
he has a laptop filled with pictures, a smart phone filled with messages of
family and friends, taste buds that have experienced something new, eyes that
are ready for surprise and shock value, a mind that is all the more alert and a
skin that is much thicker and lots of stories to tell.
The
top MBA colleges in Delhi NCR base their teaching methodology on real life
experiences that men carry in their minds for the rest of their lives, long
after the memories of B-school books have faded away. Ishan Institute of
Management & Technology is the first MBA College in Greater Noida.
