We have a course called OBPPD (Organisation behaviour and personal and professional development) which helps us to understand ourselves and each other. It focuses on the psychology of individuals, groups and the organisations. This is one area on which Cranfield MBA focuses its attention, as a part of the personal and professional development of the individuals.
In the first week itself, I learnt about various learning styles (activists, theorists, pragmatists & reflectors) and other personality types. Another requirement of our course is to give feedbacks to team members, to teachers and to everyone who is involved in MBA. This is good as it allows you to speak- about what you liked and more importantly, what you did not. Moreover, the Indians have reputation of agreeing even when they actually disagree. I think this is probably because of our culture which teaches us to respect elders and not to confront them. And we respect our elders and teachers much more than anybody else. I have found here that my colleagues from other parts of the world are more professional and somewhat disrespectful too.
The feedbacks are very interesting as I have found that people are ready to give feedback even when it’s not desired rather when it is completely unwanted. I have seen live examples of this but won’t divulge much detail here. So there is a lesson to be learnt. Give constructive feedback. Make sure that the receptor is willing to listen and accept positively. Feedbacks should never be person-orientated rather they should be task and process orientated.
I have also got feedbacks regarding this blog from my friends and well wishers, who have compared this blog to the likes of ‘Chetan Bhagat’ and ‘Harbhajan Jolly’. One of my friends termed me as a prolific writer- I think I am flattered and feeling on top of the world. Well all that I can say is that this has motivated me to write more and make it sure that I find time to maintain my blog.
There is one more observation that I have made recently. We guys [I mean all of us youngsters- I feel I m still young :) ] have become so much net-savvy that now its almost impossible to imagine life without internet these days. Can you go without internet for a day, leave apart a week? Come on! Be true. You can’t! You would be wondering all the time if someone has sent you a new mail or you got any messages on the facebook/ orkut (the two most probable social networking sites I know). And you will be dying to have a glimpse of the same!!!
I’ll share more and more….whenever I get time (God help me with some more time please! :)
14 October 2007
Its Your MBA
Hey! Its Friday but it seems as if last day was Monday!
This is not at all an exaggeration of whats happening in my life. And I am enjoying it to the most- cos after all, its ‘My MBA’. The ‘orienters’ taught us some ‘mantras’ about Cranfield MBA:
It’s Your MBA- you have to plan it and execute it the way you want!
The more you put in, the more you get.
Don’t study, only socialise. MBA will help only for 1-2 years but the network you build will last forever.
Any score above 51% is waste of effort.
There were many more teachings but these were the prominent rather the funniest ones.
From Monday, our normal classes began and our teachers & faculty finally came into action. But the impact which our ‘fresh alumni’ made on us will last with me forever and ever. They were so energetic, cheerful and motivated people.
The classes are going on very well- faculty is great and all very experienced guys. There are lectures by professionals from various backgrounds in evenings (not daily) and I try not to miss any opportunity to listen to them.
On thursday evening, we had 70s n 80s night where everybody was dressed up in that attire. It was a fantastic evening. There were drinks, food n music and of course dance too. Great fun! We have many more such weekly events coming our way. And I am very eagerly looking forward to more of such get-togethers.
In between I try to squeeze out some time to play badminton. Even if it’s for half hour I do go, as the badminton courts are just a minute’s walk from my place and of course I love this game. There are many more opportunities to try various games and new experiences.
This week also saw ‘AT Kearney’ visiting the campus and giving a presentation on ‘AT Kearney Annual MBA Consultancy Competition’. This is a competition in which various European schools participate and the team which wins the European competition will compete with the American winner. In the first round, 10 teams from Cranfield will participate, out of which 3 will move to next round. From these 3, only one will go further to compete at European stage.
Our batch is full of active people and there were 19 teams which wanted to participate; ATK allowed only 10! So it was decided by our careers team that 10 teams will be screened out of 19 on the basis of a 5-minute presentation. My team includes Anil, Marina (from Russia) and Ugo (from Nigeria). We purposely wanted to have a diverse team and we gave the name of ‘Synergy Consulting’ to our team and our team has been screened through for the first round. Gosh…..what a great relief!!!!
This is not at all an exaggeration of whats happening in my life. And I am enjoying it to the most- cos after all, its ‘My MBA’. The ‘orienters’ taught us some ‘mantras’ about Cranfield MBA:
It’s Your MBA- you have to plan it and execute it the way you want!
The more you put in, the more you get.
Don’t study, only socialise. MBA will help only for 1-2 years but the network you build will last forever.
Any score above 51% is waste of effort.
There were many more teachings but these were the prominent rather the funniest ones.
From Monday, our normal classes began and our teachers & faculty finally came into action. But the impact which our ‘fresh alumni’ made on us will last with me forever and ever. They were so energetic, cheerful and motivated people.
The classes are going on very well- faculty is great and all very experienced guys. There are lectures by professionals from various backgrounds in evenings (not daily) and I try not to miss any opportunity to listen to them.
On thursday evening, we had 70s n 80s night where everybody was dressed up in that attire. It was a fantastic evening. There were drinks, food n music and of course dance too. Great fun! We have many more such weekly events coming our way. And I am very eagerly looking forward to more of such get-togethers.
In between I try to squeeze out some time to play badminton. Even if it’s for half hour I do go, as the badminton courts are just a minute’s walk from my place and of course I love this game. There are many more opportunities to try various games and new experiences.
This week also saw ‘AT Kearney’ visiting the campus and giving a presentation on ‘AT Kearney Annual MBA Consultancy Competition’. This is a competition in which various European schools participate and the team which wins the European competition will compete with the American winner. In the first round, 10 teams from Cranfield will participate, out of which 3 will move to next round. From these 3, only one will go further to compete at European stage.
Our batch is full of active people and there were 19 teams which wanted to participate; ATK allowed only 10! So it was decided by our careers team that 10 teams will be screened out of 19 on the basis of a 5-minute presentation. My team includes Anil, Marina (from Russia) and Ugo (from Nigeria). We purposely wanted to have a diverse team and we gave the name of ‘Synergy Consulting’ to our team and our team has been screened through for the first round. Gosh…..what a great relief!!!!
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