Showing posts with label mba exam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mba exam. Show all posts

Essential Management Skills for non-MBAs


Management skills are not the copyright of MBAs only. They can be acquired by all and should be indeed! They can be honed anywhere and there are some basic management skills that one should definitely implement in office, whether you are a post graduate management student or not. These skills don’t require you to do an MBA; just simple practices chalked out well and strategized to perfection can bring the same results for you as it would to anyone else in your office. Here is a lowdown on some essential MBA skills we feel that every non-MBA inculcates as a part of their daily habits. 

Communication Concord
Communication is an essential factor guiding your potential to flourish. This communication entails communication with everyone, be it, the boss, the seniors, your reporting boss, or your parallel colleagues. Opening doors to communication with your seniors and duly informing them about each effort taken by you is a strategic way to make them realize you’re at work and you are constantly contributing yourself in some way for the betterment and growth of the organization as well as the adding value to your area of work. Error free and lucid communication channels make way for informed decision making. However, your reputation is at stake unless your communication, whether written, verbal or pictorials is error-free. 

Relationship Building
Your growth and potential can be easily charted keeping your relations in place. Being in the bad books of even one essential entity in your organization can alter your efforts to nil. Thus, make sure to build strong and friendly relations with all. Most of the people in office spaces are not here to make long term friends, so don’t go ahead with those intentions, build relations in the form of give and take. Don’t keep to yourself, share knowledge even if people don’t share it with you. Your strategy here is to build relations for your interest not to calculate if you are getting more or less than you’re giving. 

Opinions Matter, When?
Opinions and judgments matter, but make sure these judgments are not personal judgments, judgments about colleague, their work profile, their salaries and their work. Your opinions should be business related and must be opined when in business meetings and other professional gatherings where you can draw some mileage out of their substance. Opining your thoughts and ideas in a clout of colleagues in a lunch room is not going to get you anywhere.
These are some of the basic and essential skills that should be considered to achieve the best in an office space. Always remember, office spaces are breeding grounds for senseless rumours and tough cutting edge politics that can make or break one's career, hence use these as daily management mantras for the best.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

Should Work Experience Be Made Mandatory For MBA Aspirants?


Whether work experience should be made mandatory for MBA aspirants is a highly debatable issue. This question has evoked many thoughts in students who are pursuing their MBA and those who are about to venture to do the same. MBAupdates would like to categorize the two significant schools of thought most accepted by the MBA communities in general. One is the old school thought which believes that what matters the most is your basic education till graduation, your grades, your essential scores of GMAT and CAT along with your final dash of group discussion and the personal interview that could help you grab the seat! The second thought promotes the added advantage of work experience to the aforementioned factors in your resume.

First of all, why do institutions want the students to have work experience? The major reasons for this could be the desire for candidates who are more serious. Those having already worked and come for an MBA course portray a rather determined attitude than a college graduate out to maybe merely complete his post-graduation for the sake of it. However, what is important here is to note that the numbers of students are increasingly proportionate to the growing population and thus, this also means that students are applying for MBA programs at a younger age. A trend very discernible and quite upsetting is that students go in for work experience before their opting for MBA and then forgo the actual MBA program because they are too settled at work and are already earning. And yes, it is fact that the process of quitting a well-paying job and coming back to studies after a few years is an ordeal and not quite motivating as the inflow of cash that the person is accustomed to, suddenly experiences a halt. Now imagine, even if an institution does persist on allowing entry to only experienced students what do they actually gain? Yes, they gain more motivated, determined and focussed students who can and are willing to go the extra mile to adopt strategic management practices as they have already worked and know how to segregate the practical from the impractical and the gauge feasibility of actual theory into practice as they already have some ground-zero familiarity.

Thus, MBAupdates, after seeing the basic premises supporting each side of the argument concludes that this is a purely contentious question that is highly subjective in nature. Even if an institution does look for experienced professional to make students of MBAs it really cannot hole up students who desire to pursue further MBA studies right after graduation. However, one really cannot deny that practical work experience does aid classroom learning experiences and other knowledge centres helping you to get even better salaries than you would have got being a fresher. Some institutes ask for work experience whereas some don’t. Most of the IIMs do not. Even the Indian Business School in Hyderabad does not enforce the work experience criteria on the aspirants.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS