YMT Dean talks about the benefits of having a soft skills trainer
1. What are the top challenges that you are currently working to solve for your institute this year?
The main challenge we face today are that there are too many institutes mushrooming all around without proper infrastructure and facility to justify management education , as a result of which the students don’t take dedicated institutes like us seriously. So we are trying to offer the best facility and infrastructure that suits a management institute.
2. What according to you have been your most significant progress your institute has made in the last one year?
Our institute has tried and even succeeded in giving students complete development, which is a combination of academic and personality development. We have Mr.Sarang Yande, who is a certified trainer from the industry and ex HR manager of a five star hotel and now owner of Will n Skill Training Consultants Mumbai, as trainer and life coach for our students. Being an HR manager and training manager from the industry with vast HR and training experience , he trains our students in interview skills , group discussion and presentation techniques to name a few. We have been able to bring the best names of the industry to our campus, for e.g. Mr.Radhakrishnan Pillai, author Corporate Chankaya, Ms.Padma Gupta – Director, HR, Hafele India Ltd , Mr.Anil Banchor – Chief executive – Concrete Business – ACC cement so on and so forth.
3. What are the qualities you look for in an applicant when shortlisting for your final selections?
We generally look at the English language ability, the personality of the student and most important their viewpoints and attitude towards their careers.
4. What according to you is the one progressive change that you’d like to see in the management education scenario in the country today?
One major change that is required is to make the management education more corporate and practical, than theoretical. More corporate have to get involved in designing the course curriculum so that management education can reclaim the glory that it deserves.