The two day's workshop on the 23rd and 24th of September 09 for RGI group's colleges of management and business administration was a thrilling one where the faculties from all the domains of management were brought together to understand, analyze, disseminate and percolate the ideas gathered to the students and the peers who couldn't make it to the forum.The workshop chaired by yours truly, as the facilitator, was broken into components like "How to write a case","Teaching through Case Studies","Myths about Case Based Teaching", "How to Write Articles", "How to make and run projects","Global happenings in the Management Education", followed by an open house.A total of 25 teaching staff from different domains of management representing different B-schools under the RGI banner, hailing from Nagpur, Amravati,Jalgaon, Pune participated in the two days deliberations.The homework sent to all the delegates comprised of a 30 page case study for their critical analysis. The title of the case was "HRM in Affiliates of companies working in Estonia". Another homework in the form of spadework for "Article Writing" was also given to the delegates,whereby they were supposed to gather the information, which in turn was to be converted into an article. Five power point presentations detailing the topic, apart from a simulated case presentation was put forth by the workshop facilitator.He also shared few of his published articles, research papers and case studies.The workshop hovered around the model of learning by doing as the delegates were either involved in group or individual exercises.
The workshop was inaugurated at the august hands of group chairman, Mr. Sunilji Raisoni, in the presence of Executive Directors and Directors, Mr. Mahadev Shastri and Mr. Yasin Sheikh respectively. Mr. Varadpande, Placement Manager compared the inaugural event, followed by the extempores by Mr. Shastri and Mr. Sheikh. They empahsized the importance of learning and novel training techniques in the modern day management learning.The event was managed by GH Raisoni Academy For Human Execllence Pvt. Ltd.
In a nutshell, my small Eid vacation in India was a perfect blend of earn, learn and some fun!!!