Finally I joined the dream school IIM-A and one of the most sought after program PGPX. Today was the first official day of the program called Inauguration leading to interaction with professors, admins, chair, director and the founder. We were welcomed by decoration of flowers and greeted by the PGPX admin officials. Every one wearing the white IIMA logo t-shirt looked like a group of 85 white lions ( urf students ) heading to conquer the world ( urf become leaders of the future ).
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PGPX admin head started with a welcome message and then introduced the 3 speakers for the day, one of them the founding member of the PGPX program, chair of the program and the director. They started highlighting the critical angle of the program that the year is going to be tough and the focus should be on learning and introspection rather than the pragmatic goal of placements. A very important point was to have a constant feedback loop within oneself and listen to inner voice to make sure you know where you want to be at the end of the one year. Diversity was highlighted by listing the presence of 13 female students among the 85, highest so far along with average 10 year experience of the batch.
Comparison was done between the 2 year PGP program and the expectations from our 1 year MBA for executives. Spouses of some of the members were present too proudly listening to the speakers and feeling the pride of sitting inside the IIM-A campus. Some people were fiddling with their hairs, a few changing positions and a few staring into the podium trying to concentrate on the words oozing out from the speakers mouth. Few good questions were asked such as what was the mission statement of the program and how far have we progressed to achieve one, what changes were done since the program was found, is the program just focused on fundamental learning or also leadership styles.
I am sure there are lot of questions and lot of curiosity in the mind of the 85's which will be cleared as we progress through the rest of the 364 DAYS in the program.
Good Night for now, hope to write and see you tomorrow.
PGPX admin head started with a welcome message and then introduced the 3 speakers for the day, one of them the founding member of the PGPX program, chair of the program and the director. They started highlighting the critical angle of the program that the year is going to be tough and the focus should be on learning and introspection rather than the pragmatic goal of placements. A very important point was to have a constant feedback loop within oneself and listen to inner voice to make sure you know where you want to be at the end of the one year. Diversity was highlighted by listing the presence of 13 female students among the 85, highest so far along with average 10 year experience of the batch.
Comparison was done between the 2 year PGP program and the expectations from our 1 year MBA for executives. Spouses of some of the members were present too proudly listening to the speakers and feeling the pride of sitting inside the IIM-A campus. Some people were fiddling with their hairs, a few changing positions and a few staring into the podium trying to concentrate on the words oozing out from the speakers mouth. Few good questions were asked such as what was the mission statement of the program and how far have we progressed to achieve one, what changes were done since the program was found, is the program just focused on fundamental learning or also leadership styles.
I am sure there are lot of questions and lot of curiosity in the mind of the 85's which will be cleared as we progress through the rest of the 364 DAYS in the program.
Good Night for now, hope to write and see you tomorrow.
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