Gian Jyoti institute of Management and Technology ,15th april 2009
Gian Jyoti institute of Management and Technology organized the first of its kind business presentation competition for its MBA students on the 15th of April 2009. The competition was held in campus and was attended by all members of the faculty and MBA students.Mr JS Bedi,Chairman of the Institute presided over the function and gave away the prizes. Mr JS Bedi said that students have displayed remarkable creative skills and all of them spoke convincingly while giving power point presentations
It was organized by the institute’s soft skills trainer and management faculty Ms. Tanvi K. Goyal.
Ms. Goyal is an MBA from the prestigious Leeds University Business School. She is a multi faceted personality who has entrepreneurial experience in the wellness industry and a soft skills trainer. She is also a trained image consultant and stylist. Her endeavor to bring out the best in students led to the organization of this competition.
It was a group competition where the students were given four topics to choose from. The topics were from various fields in order to encourage students to enhance their knowledge like corporate social responsibility, the Satyam case, the ways of motivating employees during current economic conditions and the reactions on slumdog Millionaire. 6 teams were shortlisted for the final competition after screening.
The panel of judges constituted of the institute’s director Dr. V.K. Agrawal, Dean Academics Dr. Aneet, Deputy Director Dr. Kariminder Ghuman and Prof. Bhupinder Singh,Media Cordinator. All the judges were specialists in their respective fields.
The presentations marked the end of an extensive three months soft skills training program that all MBA students have to undergo as a part of GJIMT curriculum. This competition provided a platform for the students to show their talent and gave them an opportunity to enhance their public speaking and presentation skills. The presentations made by all teams reflected their attention to detail and professionalism.
The question and answer round turned out to be the highlight of the evening as the judges asked interesting questions and the students provided a creative and intelligent answers and handled all queries with panache.
The competition was extremely close but the winning team captured the interest of the judges and audience by their topic of Slumdog Millionaire and dressed in a rugged manner in order to relate more to the topic. The winners were Ms. Barinder Singh, Mr. Kishore Sngh and Mr. Mayank Sharma. The creativity and confidence showed by the team in handling the questions was exceptional. The runners up teams were exceptional and extremely professional in their presentations and query handling. The first runners up were Mr. Binwant Singh, Ms. Kirandeep Kaur and Mr. Ramakant Chauhan. The second runners up were Mr. Rajesh Gera, Ms. Bhawna Sharma, Ms. Himanshi Agarwal, Mr. Gursmiar Shah and Ms. Neha Gupta.
The institute plans on making this competition an annual event after looking at the response of the students and their talent.