MBA Students Motivated To Look Beyond

A meaningful talk was organized for MBA students on 19^th November 2019 in the Management Block, CIML. The keynote speaker was Mr Satish Koshal, a professionally qualified and experienced consultant, with a positive attitude. This is augmented with mentoring for managements of medium industry and their senior working professionals.

Mr Koshal has had extensive experience of working in large government and banking projects integrating multiple technologies, process design and deployment, large work-force management, customer and service delivery management, MIS, IT infrastructure/ Data centre management and all allied aspects of Project Management including Change/Risk/Client management.
Besides an engineering degree – B Tech (Hons), from IIT Kharagpur, Senior Life Member, Computer Society of India; Life Member, Indian Society of Training and Development (ISTD); a Certified Quality Analyst, Quality Assurance Institute, USA; Certified Internal Assessor for Tata Business Excellence Model (equivalent of Malcolm Balridge model); Certified Lead Auditor for Information Security Management System.

The lecture began on a positive note when Mr Koshal congratulated the students for being a part of CHRIST, Lavasa. The entire talk was intertwined with personal anecdotes. He enquired about the group composition and tried to analyze their mindset. He helped the students to look beyond the obvious and be well prepared for an interview well in advance. He related it to a mixture of people in an industry who hail from various disciplines and work in coordination with each other. Mr Koshal informed them that an industry deals with customer service orientation and the right perspective has to be always in focus.

Mr Koshal inspired them to always strive to be the best out of the rest and addressed students as possible resources for future. He further added that the students ought to arm themselves with the right knowledge, and attitude for their professional career. They have to learn to formulate a strategy and reinvent themselves.

According to Mr Koshal the need of the hour is to be an edge over others in the world of competition and deliver quality assurance to those who will hire them. They also have to be tech savvy to be in sync with the latest trend in the market.  He further elaborated on a serious matter which deals with acceptance of uncertainty in the present ever changing world. The competition will strive a student to be par excellence in order to be accepted. Mr Koshal gave real time examples of Uber, Airbnb, cloud kitchen, Oyo, Shaarktank etc. to drive across his point of view, which were highly relatable.

He further inspired the young MBA students to broaden their vision and use technology extensively. Mr Satish motivated them to be knowledgeable and read beyond measure. He further added that they must give an edge of practicability to their projects and must begin to think differently. The lecture was highly interactive and the students shared their views, dreams, ambitions with the keynote speaker and got valuable guidance in response to their doubts, thoughts and feelings. The students could be seen interacting with Mr Koshal during the short break in between the sessions.