Showing posts with label IIM PGPX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IIM PGPX. Show all posts

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Get ready for a PGPX

The first few years of our career doesn’t leave you with much time for other pursuits. It is amidst this madness that you are thinking of taking a break for education. Here comes then the need for certain preparations before embarking on a business course.

Firstly, if you are going for a residential program, you must not take a headful of family issues to the campus. Do the necessary arrangements well in advance to ensure that your family can do without you for the one year duration ( some B schools allow family to accompany the candidate to campus during the course)

Secondly, catch up with academics. It may be a good 4 years that you left regular study. Now that you have chosen to pursue executive MBA from a top ranked college, you have to catch up on your quantitative and verbal skills. This is because entry to top PGPX programs requires GMAT/CAT scores. Besides excellent business English, critical thinking and quantitative aptitude are integral to B school rigor too.
Find a trainer who can prepare you both for the GMAT and CAT as well as for the business school rigor. Handholding by an experienced trainer can help ease the experience of getting back to learning

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Executive MBA

Transform the manger in you to a business leader

Gone are the days when a 30 plus executive, resigns his job, packs his bags and set out for a 2 year full time MBA, with a 700 plus GMAT score neatly tucked away in his laptop bag.
During recession, if you are not given a pink slip you are plain lucky. You hold  tightly on  to your present job. For you got to pay your EMIs, credit card bills and the like. Can you afford the luxury of a 2 yr study abroad? The answer is No.

The X factor
Called the executive program ( for work ex guys), the PGPX is the new hope. ‘Learn while you earn’ literally works.  There are wide variety of executive programs to choose from- Indian and international.
The program duration ranges from a few weeks to one year.
ISB Hyderabad to MDI Gurgaon to INSEAD France offers such courses. Some are full time campus programs, others partly distance, partly on campus. Courses designed, delivered and certified by prestigious B.Schools. Platforms are offered by HughesNet and NIIT for videoconference lessons. The advantage aspirants can attend live lessons delivered from real campuses and interact with faculty. They can network with fellow learners form across cities.
Both public sector and private sector executives take up executive programs.

What they teach
A sense of direction,  business strategies and personal effectiveness; ability to manage conflict; clarity in decision making and the skill to manage people of all dispositions and temperaments.
Course variations: I year fulltime executive program/ 1 yr certificate program(satellite), 6 month campus programs/ 5 week campus program/ online MBA
Sought after specializations
  • HRM
  • Finance
  • Operations
  • IT
  • General management
  • International business
  • Public management and policy
A partial list of prestigious programs
ISB’s executive MBA , IIMA’s PGPX, IIM L’s IMPX, IIM Indore’s PGCBM, XLRI’s Executive MBA, MDP(a few weeks to 6 month) of many top B Schools
NIIT Imperia, HughesNet programs, U21, e-MBA , 5 week Advanced Management program INSEAD France…