In order to provide soft skills coaching of the industry leaders to graduates from Engineering, Business Management and law institutions, CII and IWN, Finishing School has kickstarted a programme today at IEHE Campus.
The programme will be held for a period of 10 days, wherein the students will receive 15 hours of soft skill training during weekdays from industry leaders and members of CII, YI and IWN.
While giving the opening remarks Ml Nath, Director, Institute of Excellence in Higher Education welcomed the team of CII and IWN and thanked them for their support.
later, Pradeep Karambelkar, Vice Chairman, CII Bhopal Zone and Managing Director, Vision Advisory Services Pvt ltd said that Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has been working actively on Affirmative Action Agenda since 2006 and taking positive steps to encourage affirmative action for the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes in corporate India, through varied successful models. Finishing school is one of them.
He advised the students to take benefit of the Finishing School and strengthen their capability, enhance confidence levels and quality of formal presentation skills which will help improve employability, once they complete their education.
“We want to develop the framework through a collaborative effort between industry, educational institutions and specialised learning management system providers. The focus of the programme is to sharpen soft skills, which have now become extremely important for success in any profession, anywhere in the world,” he added.
The first inaugural session of Finishing School was delivered by Kanchan Yadav, Co-Chair - IWN Madhya Pradesh and Managing Director, GENPRO Technologies Pvt ltd on the topic of ‘Transition from Academic to Business’. “The touch stone of this finishing school will be delivering a more polished budding professional. Meanwhile, the challenge of the school is to build and enhance the confidence level of the students by providing them early exposure to their future work places,” said Kanchan Yadav.