Talk Right And Communicate Right – The Core Of Soft Skill Training For PGDM Students

Soft skills are important in every profession, but their significance in the world of management is perhaps the highest. This is because the manner in which management professionals present themselves and communicate with the outer world can deeply influence their own success and the success of their organization. This is perhaps why the best management programs lay so much stress on training their students in the key soft skills of talking right and communicating right. In fact, the best PGDM colleges in Hyderabad consider it extremely essential for the students to master these skills for paving the way for a successful career.

What Makes These Skills So Important

The ability to talk and communicate in the most appropriate manner matters a lot in the corporate culture. This is because it reflects the interpersonal abilities and attributes of an individual’s personality. Mastering these skills makes it easier for management professionals to gain a clear understanding of the best way to react and respond in a given business situation. The higher the students aspire to move on the management ladder, the more important it becomes for them to gain a proper hold of these skills. Moreover, talking right and communicating right form the basis for developing other soft skills, such as optimism, responsibility, sense of humor, good manners, sociability, and empathy to name a few.

Why These Skills  Matter More For Management Professionals

The reason that makes business organizations invest in hiring management trainees is their belief that these aspiring professionals are best suited to take the venture to new heights of success. However, doing business is all about interacting with people, which is why the students opting for a PGDM in Hyderabad need to master the skills of taking and communicating in the right manner. The three most common business scenarios where these skills come in quite handy are discussed as follows.

For Business Generation

Management professionals are often tasked with the responsibility of generating greater business for their organization. This requires them to have excellent interpersonal skills and a great command over their communication. Having the right business etiquette and good communication skills can help management professionals to win over new clients in an almost effortless manner.

Efficiently Manage People From Diverse Cultures

The management professionals are required to deal with people from diverse cultures backgrounds as a part of their job. Without proper soft skill training, this can prove to be extremely challenging. That is why the top PGDM colleges in Hyderabad, pay special attention to imbibing these key soft skills in their students.  This prepares them to adjust and deal with the people from different cultures, environments, and languages in the most efficient manner.

For Personal Career Growth

The ability to talk and communicate in an effective manner can play a vital role in enhancing the career growth of management students. In fact, these skills are essential to help the candidates to evolve as successful leaders making it easier for them to manage the workforce. It will also help them to establish a strong relationship with individual team members and motivate them to contribute towards business growth and success in an optimal way.

VJIM'S ONGOING PLACEMENT FOR PGDM CLASS 2015- 2017 IS WORTH THE ATTENTION

Placements at Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management, Hyderabad reach new heights this season with recruiters having snapped up students as early as September. With 60 students already placed in reputed companies across industries, VJIM has made its mark in the onoing placement season for Management students. Read More  

“You can manage things but how about knowing how to manage people?”

A session at VJIM Hyderabad with Ms. Vijay Lakshmi, Head, L & D, Nspira Management Services and Mr. Phani Kumar, Manager HR, Kogentix on the importance of HR in any organization

“Things can be managed but a true manager is someone who knows how to manage people,” said Ms. Vijay Lakshmi, Head L & D, Nspira Management Services at a latest seminar at Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management, Hyderabad which was around the topic- "Role of HR in Organisational Citizenship Behavior (OCB).

Hosted for the PGDM students of the school by the HR Committee, this 20^th August seminar also had Mr. Phani Kumar, Manager, HR, Kogentix interacting with the students and taking their questions.

Ms. Lakshmi explained how the role of an HR has come a long way in India and how it is evolving every single day. “It isn’t easy to handle the Human Resource of a company because managing people is the toughest job ever in the field of management, and the expectation of the organization on HR is high because now a days people not only want smart TV and mobile but also smart employees,” exclaimed Ms. Lakshmi. 

The OCB interaction touched topics like-

a. Organizational Citizenship Behavior

b. Importance of HR in developing OCB

c. Understanding the impact of effectiveness of OCB in organizations

Organizational Citizenship Behavior is something an individual plays independently within an organization and unless you are trained in it or attentive towards it, you will not contribute to the overall growth of the organization. To define it in simpler ways, OCB is a person's voluntary commitment within an organization or company that is not part of his or her contractual tasks.

Mr. Kumar simplified it for the students further by explaining how one can achieve OCB by following the below listed factors:

·         Altruism – quality of unselfish concern of others

·         Courtesy – polite behavior

·         Sportsmanship – fairness in following rules

·         Conscientiousness – reasonable level of self-control

·         Civic sense how well a person represents an organization

“Anybody can perform well in work allotted to him/her, but a true employee is he who goes an extra mile to perform extraordinarily,” said Manager, HR, Kogentix in his speech. “He’s the successful employee and organization needs such people,” Mr Kumar added further.

5 TOP PG DIPLOMA COURSES CURRENTLY IN INDIA

The world today is neither satisfied nor completely taken in with your bachelor’s degree. Now that you have a bachelor’s degree, what comes next? A postgraduate degree or a diploma? How do you pick? Where do you go?

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To make your job easier, we cherry-picked five most trending diplomas courses for you.

 POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT :

This equips and hones you in the art of decision making and a keen understating of the more minute nuances of business. It is a two year programme which relies for the job market with extremely bright prospects. To really make the most your PGDM in India understanding the present economy, consider B-schools around Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Delhi.

 POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN TECHNICAL WRITING:

For people want to take up technical writing, this course is a tailor made fit. Clocking a total of 150 hrs, spread over time, this fine tunes your writing skills and helps you become better versed in the language you use anywhere. Buffer is an online site that offers this course. Check it out today!

 POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MARKETING:

A specialization in Marketing during your PGDM/ MBA years gives you an edge over the others in the field of Marketing because it helps you learn about markets, market monitoring and product development. This course gives you an effective one up on usual management degrees. As you pursue a better career, it is wise to pick a great B-school from Hyderabad or Bangalore currently. Reason being- these two cities are presently hot spots of Marketing opportunities.

 POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN FASHION DESIGN:

You can challenge the creative individual in you by taking this course that is offered by Pearl Academy. Here you don't just learn about fashion but get an added advantage since you taught skills pertaining to Design Process, Visualisation, Presentation and an understanding of the market behaves and responds to different things differently.

The duration of this course is two years- four semesters.

 POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT:

This one/ two years’ diploma makes you an Entrepreneur with confidence and with an ability to gauge market, to understand it and run a business more efficiently. Mostly, the curriculum deals with managing a business with more efficiency than those who don’t have the advantage of this particular diploma.

WHY PGDM AND NOT MBA?

Very often, management students stand on this cross road and wonder, PGDM or MBA? Which one will land me my dream job? Which one makes me academically better? Which one is meant more for me and is not the way of the herd? A very common debate! Let us sort this out for you.

“An MBA is for those who seek a university programme to get a holistic view of Management while the PGDM is for those who seek specialisation in a particular area of their interest,” feels V. Venkataramana, Dean, School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad.

PGDM, strictly speaking, isn't a degree. So, in a degree hungry country like ours, why at all should a person go for it? As stated above, PGDM gives you a tunnel vision, yes, but keeps you focused on what you want to achieve rather than give you a broad based idea of things. While MBA is seen as a natural set up after a graduate degree, PGDM is seen as a diploma pursued for professional advancement and a very relevant one for growing fast in your profession.

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As far credibility of a diploma vs. degree stand, there are times a PGDM might end up scoring higher than a plain MBA because it might be suited better to the job description.

         

While an MBA is regulated by the UGC, a PGDM is regulated by the AICTE. This gives institutions offering a PGDM course higher autonomy than those offering plain, vanilla MBA courses. Even though both courses give you an insight into and knowledge of Business Administration, the approach and concentration of what is taught is fairly different.

         

PGDM tackles the more practical fields of education as compared to MBA that provides you academic knowledge. The basic difference between the two is that the former makes you street smart and the other makes you book wise. Hence, more of professionals who want to advance their fields should usually go in for a PGDM.

Fee structure for PGDM courses is much higher as compared to MBAs but if your purpose is to seek advancement in your chosen field, a PGDM might be a better card to pick over a generic MBA which might end up not helping you at all. Since a person would be devoting an exact same amount of time (i.e. 2 years) one might want to work toward a specific goal than being the jack of all trade and master of none.

One of the key things where PGDM triumphs over MBA is the interval in which the curriculum is updated. Since recognised universities hand out MBAs, the curriculum there is a little rigid compared to the fairly autonomous institutes that aren’t governed by the UGC. Usually, a curriculum update takes less time and is more fluid while pursuing PGDM.

As far as placements depend, the onus goes to the institution more than the course and though there are arguers in favour of and against both courses, they would seem neck to neck to an unbiased eye.

VignanaJyothi Institute of Management (VJIM), Hyderabad’s PGDM Admissions Now Open. Apply before April 30, 2016

VignanaJyothi Institute of Management (VJIM), Hyderabad has announced admissions to the 2016-18 batch, beginning February 2016.  

Extending the core principles of Ethics, Knowledge and Public Service, VJIM, Hyderabad established in the year 1991, has continually undertaken initiatives for preparing leaders of tomorrow. VJIM, Hyderabad is an AICTE approved private Business School that also has professional society membership with bodies like: AIMA, NHRD, AMDISA, AIMS-Intl, HMA, CDC, CII, AIMS and EPSI.

The school aims to provide high quality professional education to students in order to make them ‘career ready’.

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The two years’ full time PGDM and part-time PGDM courses of VJIM, Hyderabadfocuses to develop managerial talent for tomorrow’s needs through a rigorous academic curriculum combined with practical industry exposure. The school’s academic curriculum is designed to provide the students with a platform for holistic learning. The end objective is to create effective managers capable of meeting the challenges of a global workplace.

Things you need to know before applying to VJIM’s PGDM:

- VJIM accepts CAT/MAT/XAT/ATMA/CMAT/GMAT scores

- VJIM gets 95% of its class consistently placed every year

- More than 75 companies recruited from Class of 2015

- VJIM has generous scholarship for deserving applicants to avail

- The school has 2000+ alumni spread across the country and the world

Dr. Kamal Ghosh Ray, Director, VJIM says, “VignanaJyothi Institute of Management, Hyderabad is actively engaged in repositioning business education. We, at VJIM have redefined business education as a perfect mix of ‘global width’ with ‘local depth’. We seek to achieve the ‘global width’ by adopting the international curriculum, pedagogy and best practices, which are applied in the local business settings. The ‘local depth’ is explored through developing ‘industry-specific skills’, while meeting the needs of Indian businesses for which, VJIM has repositioned business education.”

Application procedure

Applications are available online (http://vjim.edu.in/apply-online/)

Alternatively, offline applications can be made by either downloading the form from our website or obtaining it from the college’s office in Hyderabad and submitting the same at the office.

Important dates

The issue of application forms started from 15 January 2016. The last date for submission of application form is 30 April, 2016.

Contact information

Admission Counsellor – +91-98498-00819, +91-96186-68765

E-mail: admissions@vjim.edu.in