A Session on GST - A Game Changer Conducted at IIBS Noida

A session on GST for MBA students was facilitated by Mr. Abhishek Thakur. Who is a CA, CS and CMA founding partner of GSTARK and Associates In his talk, he outlined the importance of GST, Challenges in implementing GST and also the Types of Tax Rates. He mentioned that every citizen wants a civilized society, hence the government collects the tax. He also mentioned the significance of collecting tax in India, unlike some other countries that collect donations.

He highlighted that the major spending of the Government is on Indian Army which protects the nation and hence it becomes our moral responsibility towards tax. The government has a power on a certain portion of the money held by an individual. The current GST structure focuses on “Take it from the have’s and distribute it among the have not’s”. He appreciated the Government in their attempt to wealth re-distribution. While quoting the example of cigarette which falls under a high tax bracket, he mentioned that GST has influenced change in behavior related to sin products/goods.

He also created awareness among the students about how the ignorant are exploited by the learned for Registering to GST. This is a user-friendly process initiated by the Government; however, the agencies are charging high against free registration online for GST.

He walked the students through the various Tax Rates - Nil-Rated, 5%, 12%, 18%, and 28%+cess. The session concluded with Q&A wherein students brought into light the issues faced by them with the implementation of GST and Mr.Abhishek Thakur welcomed any querries and complaints with regards to fraudulent activities that we come across in the name of GST. He concluded his session on Goods and Service Taxes(GST). An emerging opportunity for MBA students.

How to Brand Yourself for Professional Success? Build your professional brand to be successful in the workplace. Aditi Syal Founder of Vocabberry, Columnist at Speaking Tree, Consulting Ease of Doing Business with Innovation in EV & Education conducted the insightful session on Professional Content writing, media, and marketing sectors. She also covered Essentials Tips for Creating Professional Brand on LinkedIn for beginners.

Building your brand isn't a one-shot deal. It takes time to acquire skills and build a solid presence and it should be an ongoing endeavor. The professional brand is what matters to a potential employer, networking contact, or anyone who can help you find a job or grow your career opportunities. It's more than a case of making sure your personal brand reflects who are as a person. It's also making sure that the information available about you online is visible, available, and relevant - to where you are in your career and where you want to go next.

Keep your profiles up-to-date on like update your college brand IIBS in your profile, acquired skills set, stay in touch with your contacts, build and maintain your network with Alumni and Corporate, and work on you’re branding on a regular basis. One goal of personal branding is to increase your presence in the search engines. So, when you (or prospective employers) search Google, Yahoo or the other search engines, your results rank high. Using your name as your URL whenever possible will help you bolster your rankings.

The Skillsoft Leadership Development Program at IIBS Noida

Enhance leadership development programs with best-in-class simulations, engage maps and other experiential learning tools accelerate leadership capability. Mr.Sanjay V Sharma, Founder of Sales Pathshala, facilitated the interesting session on Essential Elements of Communication Skills, Crucial to becoming Successful business Leader. The session covered in-depth understanding of Marketing and sales career opportunities for aspiring business managers. Simulating games tricks and Roleplay in session emphasized on strengthening Sales and Marketing skills, As Gaining sales skills will help in winning finance deal, bring in investors, line up distribution deals, convince and persuade customers.

Understanding the sales process, and how to build long-term customer relationships, is incredibly important regardless of the industry or career students choose. The session concluded with the Thoughtful presentation on Effective Communication skills as the most important weapon in a Manager's arsenal.

Sanjay V Sharma is seasoned sales professional and have worked with various reputed corporate and have served Maruti Suzuki as General Manager Sales. And trained sales to Marketing team of best Global brands including Citi Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Metlife India, ICICI Prudential, Proline fitness, and HDFC.

The next session was facilitated by Mrs. Supriya Kalra, Managing Director of V3S Infotech. She is an Astute HR- Professional with PGDBA- HR from Symbiosis. Her accumulated experience and knowledge are formidable. In her session, she emphasized learning leadership skills, and corporate expectation from MBA Freshers. The students learned to build confidence by learning Concepts and Positive attitude. Through Role play students worked out goals for themselves which they never thought of due to their hesitation of choosing a path to walk on, and Think impossible to possible was leadership Mantra, which students learned with Interactive activities.

Career Guidance Session & Alumni Interaction at IIBS Noida

 MBA Student Alumni Interaction Linkage at IIBS Noida Campus. Alumni IIBS Noida Chapter committee Members Started joined the Panel discussion Role of Management Education in Building Career and Changing Scenario of Employment Innovation and their life journey.

President of Noida Chapter Tarun Rajput working as Senior Manager at HDFC Bank Limited talked about building career in BFSI sector, Neha Chaudhary IAA Joint Secretary, working as Sr. HR Manager Mahle Behar India Pvt ltd.– emphasized on building Proactive attitude essentials in achieving success, Riyaz Alam associate Secretary working as Principal Consultant Manager NowFloats Technology Pvt Ltd, Neha Solanki  working as Assistant Manager at Mogli labs Pvt Ltd IAA Treasurer, Ashish Patel Senior officer IDFC Bank, shared their enriching Experience . It was indeed a very interesting and enlightening Session as it gave students an idea about various Corporate Sectors and its expectation from MBA Graduate.

IAA - NOIDA CHAPTER

• President - Tarun Rajput
• General Secretary - Neha Choudhary
• Joint Secretary - Reyaz Alam
• Associate Secretary - Neha Solanki
• Treasurer - Ananya Srivastava 
• Relationship Manager - Gaurav Sharma

For one to be a successful manager in life, various skills are required. To guide and let the students know about the same, another session was facilitated by Mr.Arpit IIBS Alumni 2015 Batch. He further shared his Journey experience at IIBS Noida Campus.

Welcome MBA 2018 Batch Orientation Program at IIBS Noida

Orientation Day for the Opening MBA batch 2018-20 of IIBS Noida Campus. MOM (Management Orientation Month) is mainly focused on the setting the mind-set for the students who have taken admission in MBA with an aspiration to become professionals in the corporate world. A fresh start of a new journey and a new session began on 3rd September 2018 at IIBS, Noida Campus with the inauguration of the orientation programme. The programme began by introducing the new faces to the college campus. The students of BU S-17 Mahima and Ronita hosted the event. The event began with the lighting of the lamp by dignitaries, faculties and students followed by Saraswati Vandana by Raghwendra Maurya (MBA S17) The Guest of Honour for the day Dr.R.K Chopra and Brig.Dr. Sunil Kr. Moudgil was presented with Plants as Token of Respect by Students.

 Prof. Seema Mishra, Dean IIBS Noida Campus welcomed the dignitaries, staff members, and the students. She highlighted the importance of being disciplined and focused for goal achievement and briefed students on expectations of the industry from MBA students.  She also ensured Students for IIBS commitment of Holistic Development of students to face unique competitive Global business challenges,team-based environment where innovative skills and creativity are critical to success. She urged students to actively participate in all academic and Cultural Activities for development and enriching experience.

Brig. Dr. Sunil Kr.Moudgil, an International Master trainer and motivational speaker. He addressed the students and emphasized that for achieving success in the corporate world right attitude of students is necessary. He shared the pearls of wisdom with the students and enthralled the audience with their highly motivational and inspiring words. He also pointed out that students should be equipped with multiskills, desire for learning and positive restlessness for self-improvement...Furthermore, Brief.Moudgil wished the students for their betterment of future.

Dr. Lalna Sangolkar Deputy Director, IIBS Noida Campus in her address stated the role of Management education in the overall development of future managers. She emphasized the necessity of right attitude to handle challenges.

Dr.R K Chopra who has more than 25 years of experience in higher education, training, personality development and promoting ventures.Prof. Chopra has devoted his career to improving educational opportunity and imparting behavioral and leadership skills. He talked and shared the practical fronts of leading a healthy, ethical and effective life. He also shared the mantra of attaining success in the corporate world and the importance of active listening and communication skills.

Ria, Shubham & Alice (Batch by BU S-17) presented informative and Interesting Introduction of IIBS Team Shared the glimpse of events and activities held at IIBS, Noida Campus in the previous year. Everyone Applauded, Video presentation comprising of memories  Captioned Journey so far had spectacular insights into students learning and development at IIBS Noida Campus. Ashish Singh Khwairakpam (S17Batch) Captured all the moments to add further in their journey of learning and Development.

Prof. Renu Bhardwaj gave the vote of thanks acknowledging the contribution of management, staff, and students for making the event successful.

Post Lunch, the interesting ice-breaking session was facilitated by the Dean. Prof Seema Mishra various Interactive Icebreaking activities were conducted by Dean ma’am so that the new students of the fresh batch could get to learn and know more about each other. The students were able to overcome their nervousness and could openly share their views and communicate through these activities.

The program ended with a cultural program aimed to bring all the students from different states and culture together and perform. Students Enjoyed singing and dancing celebrating their beginning of Promising and Progressive Life Ahead.

A Session on Entrepreneurship & Business Plan at IIBS Noida

Through the course Entrepreneurship and Business Plan you will be able to challenge your abilities and acquire useful and sought-after knowledge.The day started with a session by Prof.Renu Bhardwaj She started the session with a very creative introductory session, where students had to introduce themselves in a novel way. This was followed by a discussion on The Self, one’s desires, dreams, passions, and motivations. Students were told how important their dreams and desires are for developing the personality. It was stressed that they need to have a passion in life. Students were also given tips on how to increase their self-esteem. They were also encouraged to be optimistic and to have a positive approach to everything in life. Most importantly, it was emphasized that they should love themselves and never lose confidence.

Then it was followed with a session by Ms.Sarita Chauhan, Founder of  EVOKE Inspiring Lives & Redefine Skills & Learning Pvt Ltd ,Winner of Women Excellence Awards 2018 by WEF and felicitated twice by Govt of India Former Employee, CII, FICCI, Srei, NIESBUD She is a TEDEX Speaker , and business power coach known for her exemplary contribution in Start to Scale and small to big Business Success journey of her clients benefited from her business consulting and training). She has the unique art of sculpting entrepreneurial mindset, making people write groundbreaking business plans, designing business strategies that work 100% every time and driving businesses towards profitability.

Her session on Business Planning and Entrepreneur Spirit was comprised of many activities which were based on personal and societal judgments, building confidence and knowing their own capabilities.

Another session was facilitated by Ms. Shivani Jha, She has been responsible for building a collaborative environment for the co-workers around by helping them get connected to relevant mentors and organizing various meetups. Presently, as a Senior Community Manager  Of Springboards, she is majorly working along with her team on building WE League Community which is a diverse community of Entrepreneurs which thrives to empower and build the strong community of innovators. She along with her team members Simran and Rashmi guided and let the students know about marketing and encourage the students with the strong motivational session on Networking and Building Net worth.