VINDHYA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH, SATNA (M.P.

GUEST LECTURES

Session 2021-22

VIMR consciously encourages to provide a forum for students to interact with subject experts and a
wide cross section of professionals in the industry. Guest Lectures conducted to bring conceptual
knowledge, corporate experience and entrepreneurial attitude through intensive sessions and
workshops by eminent speakers from both the corporate and academic world.

Guest Date of No. of

S. No. Topic Organization Designation
Speaker Session Participants

Global Ms. Divya

Strategic HRM development Head of HR
1 Mishra 30/07/2021 317
Center
Landis+Gyr

Recent Mr.
Regional
Marketing LG Electronics Ashutosh
2 Marketing 13/08/2021 305
Strategies India Pvt. Ltd. Agrawal
Manager

Decision Making
Mr. Manish
3 for the New Era Acompworld CEO 27/08/2021 312
Shrivastava

Corporate
Dr. Isha Kaur
4 Etiquettes APSU, Rewa Professor 09/09/2021 309
Rakhra

5 FIE, FSPE Dr. A. K. Professor 24/09/2021 319

 How to conduct
Market Survey Singh

Digital
Dr. Atul Dean,
Transformation
6 APSU, Rewa Pandey Business 01/10/2021 315
and Winning in Studies
the New

Tips and tricks to

improve
Dr. Isha Kaur
7 Communication APSU, Rewa Professor 11/10/2021 323
Rakhra
Skills and
Personality
Development

Campus to
Mr. Pramod
Corporate
8 The Enablers Solanki Founder 22/10/2021 320
transformation

Management
Mr.
lessons from
Nagendra
9 Swami VITS (B.Ed.) HOD 29/10/2021 312
Pratap Singh
Vivekanand ji

Total Quality Dr. K. P.

10 Management VIMS Tripathi Principal 12/11/2021 323

Happiness:
Nature and
Mrs. Pragya Assistant
11 Concept in VIMS 26/11/2021 321
Shukla Professor
Positive
Psychology
Perspective
12 Jawaharlal Nehru Professor 10/12/2021 309
University
 Prof. Rajeev
E-learning
Sijariya

Emotional VITS (English Mr. Amit Assistant

13 24/12/2021 311
Intelligence dept.) Singh Professor

Recent Trends
Mr. Santosh
in Talent
14 UCL Dwivedi HR Manager 07/01/2022 317
Management
Practices

CA Vivek Nigam CA Vivek

15 Trade Finance Owner 13/01/2021 309
& Co. Nigam

Business Shree Shakti

Mr. Praveen
16 Opportunities as Grah Udyog, Owner 28/01/2022 209
Mishra
an Entrepreneur Satna (MSME)

Career
Mr. shivendra Development
17 Opportunities in LIC India 04/2/2022 311
Pandey Officer
Insurance Sector

Global
Development Ms. Divya
18 Reality check Head of HR 18/02/2022 320
Center Mishra
Landis+Gyr
Director &
Ravi Shankar
Strategy For Dean, faculty
Shukla Prof. Ashish
19 of 25/02/2022 319
Success University, Shrivastava
Management
Raipur
Studies

How To Start A Dr. Pramod

20 The Enablers Founder 04/03/2022 302
Startup Solanki

Jawaharlal Nehru Prof. Rajeev

21 Goal Setting Professor 08/4/2022 317
University Sijariya

Living to your Dr. Pramod

22 The Enablers Founder 20/4/2022 323
potential Solanki
 Role of Youths in
Nation’s
Development and Dr. Rajkumar Vice
23 APSU, Rewa 21/4/2022 303
integrating it with Acharya Chancellor
Skill
Development

Dr. Rakesh
24 Leadership VITS Vice-Principal 29/04/2022 307
Tiwari

E-Filing of
CA Vivek Nigam CA Vivek
25 Income Tax Owner 06/05/2022 317
& Co. Nigam
Return

Attributes of
future managers Mr. Manish
26 Acompworld CEO 11/5/2022 320
in post pandemic Shrivastava
era “Digitize or
Perish”

Paradigm shift in
Parul University, Dr. Sapna
27 skills required for HR Manager 21/5/2022 321
Vadodara (Guj) Chauhan
being industry
ready

Ms.
28 Business Law Amazon Mahalakshmi Risk Manager 26/05/2022 308
P.G

Banking and Mr.

Financial Shivendra Development
29 LIC India 31/05/2022 305
Services : The Pandey Officer
Expectations

Changing Role of
Managers Due to Prof A. K.
30 FIE, FSPE Professor 06/6/2022 313
Rapid Change in Singh
Technology
 GUEST LECTURE-1

TOPIC: Strategic HRM

GUEST SPEAKER: Ms. Divya Mishra

Date of Session: 30/07/2021

No. of participants: 317

Objective: To provide students with real-life insights into strategic HRM and help them understand
the relation between theory and practice.

PO Attainment: PO1 & PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Ms. Divya Mishra is Head of HR at Global development Center
Landis+Gyr

Brief Description of the Session: The session started with insightful lessons which she learned
throughout his career. Talking about the importance of Strategic HRM, she talked about Uberization
of Manpower in the modern days and how it is expected to create an impact in the way
organisations would need to handle its employees. Continuing with the lecture, Ms. Divya
highlighted various challenges which HR faces in the family-owned businesses from the strategic
decision-making point of view. HR continuous to face barriers when it comes to making strategic
level decisions and it is important for any HR manager to continuously prove their worth not just by
mere words but in terms of business numbers. Touching upon the theory, Ms. Divya talked about
various levels of strategy namely – Corporate Level, Business Level and Operational / Functional
Level. She explained them all through a real-life example highlighting how such strategic decision
making involves HR at times when the company faces the major business challenge of ‘growth’.
 GUEST LECTURE-2

TOPIC: Recent Marketing Strategies

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Ashutosh Agrawal

Date of Session: 13/08//2021

No. of participants: 305

Objective: To learn how the customers are evolving and understand the strategies to grow the
business.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Mr. Ashutosh Agrawal is Regional Marketing Manager in LG Electronics
India Pvt. Ltd. at Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh.

Brief Description of the Session: In his Session, he discussed how to align marketing strategies
with corporate strategies, inputs and components of a marketing strategy, development of strategies
with customers to grow and maintain customer relationships, formulation of strategies for
developing new and modified products, concepts, goods and services and for the efficient and
effective distribution of products, concepts, goods and services that respond to evolving market
needs.
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TOPIC: Decision Making for the New Era

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Manish Shrivastava

Date of Session: 27/08/2021

No. of participants: 312

Objective:. To learn the decision making keeping in view industry requirements of the current scenario.

PO Attainment: PO2

Brief Profile of Guest: Mr. Manish Shrivastava is a CEO of Acompworld. The company
“Acompworld” is a solution provider for Corporates, Government and Startups. He had done his
graduation from Vindhya Region.

Brief Description of the session: The session focussed on the importance of managerial decision making
keeping in view industry requirements of the current scenario. Student took keen interest and participate as
Decision Maker in few scenarios through case studies of Big Bazar, Artificial Intelligence and many more. He
also suggested students with various certified courses related to the area, explaining their global presence,
internship and placement opportunities and other important information.
 GUEST LECTURE-4

TOPIC: Corporate Etiquettes

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Isha Kaur Rakhra

Date of Session: 09/09/2021

No. of participants: 309

Objective: To understand the changing cultural dimensions and the importance of etiquette in
today’s business scenario.

PO Attainment: PO4 & PO5

Brief Profile of Guest: Dr. Isha Kaur Rakhra is a faculty of Management Studies at Department of
Business Administration, Awadhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa (M.P.). She had experience in
Serving on faculty committees dealing with research, budgets, curriculum planning and
requirements and staffing.

Brief Description: The lecture started with this quote emphasizing the importance of etiquettes in the
modern times, especially in the formal business scenario. Dr. Rakhra believed that business etiquettes can
make a huge difference in a person’s future success. Talking about the benefits of having good business
etiquettes, Dr. Rakhra highlighted that a person etiquette will reflect his or her first impression which decides
how that person will be judged. Professional Business Etiquette not only helps a person in building their
rapport with his co-workers but also with the customers of the company which ultimately helps in business
growth. Dr. Rakhra reminded the students of the ABC of communication, showing how important the non-
verbal communication is. Many tips regarding how to maintain a positive business etiquette included –
Treating people the way you want to be treated, A genuinely smiling face and Eye contact. The discussions
were complemented by some small informative fun activities. The session continued with attention being
given to topics like – Attitude, Dressing sense, How to introduce oneself, Meeting Etiquette and E-Mail
etiquette which hold a lot of significance for the future managers.
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TOPIC: How to conduct Market Survey

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. A. K. Singh

Date of Session: 24/09/2021

No. of participants: 319

Objective: To understand the future changes, changing role of managers due to rapid change in
technology and need to adapt it.

PO Attainment: PO3 & PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Mr. Awadhesh Kumar Singh is a reputed professional in the Power Sector.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Science and Engineering and Master's degree in Technology. He has
been in Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur and IIT Delhi alumnus. Prof. A K
Singh has worked with many leading industrial organizations of the country like BHEL, ABB, L&T
etc.

Brief Description of the session: During the Session, Mr. Awadhesh Kumar Singh told that
technological change will force changes in basic managerial functions. There will be increased
responsibility on management for organization outcomes leading to added emphasis on planning,
decision making, control and coordination. A changing tech landscape will require managers to
keep on top of not only their team’s skills and training, but their own, too Technology has helped
businesses effectively manage, retrieve and organize documents, not only increasing productivity,
but also reducing storage and operational costs.
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TOPIC: Digital Transformation and Winning in the New

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Atul Pandey

Date of Session: 01/10/2021

No. of participants: 315

Objective: To know about the concept and implementation of Digital marketing and Digital
Transformation in Technology industry. .

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Dr. Atul Pandey is Professor & Head of Department of Business
Administration, Awadhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa.

Brief Description of the Session: Dr. Atul Pandey opened the session with how technology industry
transforming in the digital world. It was an eye opener for the students. He explained how digital
transformation has changed our world by quoting the real time examples like PayTM, Aadhaar card, Tesla
car for automobile industry and many more. He gave few guide lines for students regarding employment and
corporate world. Dr. Atul Pandey during his Lecture covered the areas like Search Engine Optimization,
Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Content
Marketing & Scope of Digital Marketing. 
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TOPIC: Tips and Tricks to improve Communication Skills and Personality Development

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Isha Kaur Rakhra

Date of Session: 11/10/2021

No. of participants: 323

Objective: To Improve Communication Skills &

Personality Development of students.

PO Attainment: PO2 & PO3

Brief Profile of Guest: Dr. Isha Kaur Rakhra is a faculty of Management Studies at Department of
Business Administration, Awadhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa (M.P.). She had experience in
Serving on faculty committees dealing with research, budgets, curriculum planning and
requirements and staffing.

Brief Description: In her Session, She told the skills to improve communication including 7 C’s of
Communication, 20 adjectives to describe someone’s personality, commonly mispronounced silent
letter words in English, facts about glassophobia, its symptoms, reasons, great people who had
glossophobia and overcoming glassophobia. She also gave the tips for personality development of
students.
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TOPIC: Campus to Corporate transformation 

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Pramod Solanki

Date of Session: 22/10/2021

No. of participants: 320

Objective: To understand the

PO Attainment: PO3 & PO4

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the Session: He talked about the importance of understanding subjects from a
macro level and he further spoke on how one can get an idea of what lies where in their respective jobs by
putting themselves in the shoes of their bosses and obtaining a holistic vision. Mr. Solanki then discussed
the new emerging trends in technology and in marketing domain which are challenging the status
quo. He stressed how success is not determined by the ranks one holds but by focusing on the
longevity of career and evolving oneself as leaders. Further, he advised choosing a career option
which immediately puts oneself in a situation to learn at the grassroots level.
He also talked on how to manage people, be it the boss or the subordinates, and gave insights on
right kind of behaviour to possess while interacting with people around in ones work setup. He
further spoke about the importance of ethics and personal values in corporate life. He then
concluded by urging the students to be humble, to learn from the shop floor and to never
compromise in their value system.

GUEST LECTURE-09

TOPIC: Management lessons from Swami Vivekanand ji

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Nagendra Pratap Singh

Date of Session: 29/10/2021

No. of participants: 312

Objective: To learn the teachings of Swami Vivekananda for management and Understand the relevance of
Swami Vivekananda’s lessons in 21st century.

PO Attainment: PO1

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the Session: Resource person has delivered the ideals of Swami Vivekananda
among the students community from Ramakrishna matt and make aware on Indian culture. He
convey the message to the students youth to inculcate ideals of Vivekananda in their life and
actively participate in the Nation Building Process.

GUEST LECTURE-10

TOPIC: Total Quality Management

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. K. P. Tripathi

Date of Session: 12/11/2021

No. of participants: 323

Objective:

PO Attainment: PO1

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the Session: He discussed the usage of quality control and quality systems by
manufacturing companies all over the world, particularly notably Toyota Motors of Japan. The
following QMS subjects were covered by him: TQM, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Kanban, Lean
Manufacturing, JIT Management, and QC, SQC, and TQM. By introducing TQM, the speaker
enabled the students to reframe their way of thinking. Consumers are willing to pay more for
quality. He has provided an overview of the development of quality by emphasising Six Sigma and
lean sigma.

GUEST LECTURE-11

TOPIC: Happiness: Nature and Concept in Positive Psychology Perspective 

GUEST SPEAKER: Mrs. Pragya Shukla

Date of Session: 26/11/2021

No. of participants: 321

Objective: To understand the different perspectives of positive psychology, learn effective

strategies to manage positivity in life & understand the nature of happiness and well-being.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the Session: In her lecture, she said that happiness is a kind of positive emotion that
led to human beings to positivity. In the first part of the lecture, Mrs. Pragya Shukla threw light upon the
theoretical aspect of the theme “Happiness” from a positive psychology perspective. She explored the
various theories and models related to happiness and subjective well-being. She also explained that
happiness and satisfaction have a positive correlation. She delivered some strategies to be happier in life. She
also explored the culinary aspect relationship of happiness with other factors such as education, culture,
health, social economic status, climate, etc. At the end of the event, participants will be aware of the
nature of positive psychology. They will be able to apply the different positive emotions in their
lives & will be able to apply the concept of positive psychology in their academics.
 GUEST LECTURE-12

TOPIC: E-learning

GUEST SPEAKER: Prof. Rajeev Sijariya

Date of Session: 10/12/2021

No. of participants: 309

Objective: To enhance the quality of learning and teaching and improve user-accessibility and time
flexibility to engage learners in the learning process and make teaching more effective for
continuous improvement in study and innovation in education.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Prof. Rajeev Sijariya is Chairman of E-Learning Special Center,
international Student, Advisor and Professor, Management, ABVSME at Jawaharlal Nehru
University, Delhi.

Brief Description of the session: Dr. Rajiv Sijaria, Professor of Management Faculty of Jawaharlal
Nehru University, took the session on the subject "E-learning". During the session, he told that the
biggest feature of E-learning is that students can do their academic work at anytime and anywhere
according to their convenience. Through E-learning, students can access web based study as well as
understand its complex aspects by watching it again and again.

GUEST LECTURE-13

TOPIC: Emotional Intelligence

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Amit Singh

Date of Session: 24/12/2021

No. of participants: 311

Objective:

PO Attainment: PO2

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the session: Mr. Amit Singh addressed the students on various aspects on
Emotional Intelligence. He said that IQ is limited by birth, but EQ i.e. Emotional intelligence is
learned. Today, Emotional intelligence is an important factor for hiring and managing employees. 
He helped students understanding different types of positive (joy, appreciation, adoration, pride,
excitement ...etc.) and negative emotions (frustration, fear, Contempt…. etc.) with the help of few
stories and videos. He explained that Emotional Intelligence can be gained by understanding self
(self-awareness & self-management) or personal skills and understanding others (social awareness
& behaviour) or social skills. According to him, Empathy is one of the important aspects of
emotional intelligence. A person with low EQ will behave in aggressive, demanding and bossy
manner and will always be resisting to change whereas a person with high EQ will be having
assertive, ambitious and strong-willed nature. In order to have high EQ, it is important to be
assertive rather than aggressive, proactive and good listener. One should also be able to control
negative emotions, handle criticism, manage stress and remain calm. He said that one should choose
people wisely as the people around a person influence him the most. It is very important to embrace
change and give one’s 100% in every situation for maintaining high level of Emotional Intelligence.
At the end of session, he gave some ways to students to improve EI such as reading a book on EI,
or rating oneself.

GUEST LECTURE-14

TOPIC: Recent Trends in Talent Management Practices

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Santosh Dwivedi

Date of Session: 07/01/2022

No. of participants: 317

Objective: To provide deep insights to students about the key issues in talent planning, identifying
and assessing high-potential talent in current scenario and redesigning the performance & reward
system in current scenario.

PO Attainment: PO2 & PO3

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the session: He talked in detail about talent planning and its lifecycle process
of four stages that include talent acquisition, talent development, talent planning and talent reward.
Mr. Santosh Dwivedi gave great wisdom on how to reject the unfit from group rather than selecting the
‘right fit’. He stressed on how more than the right fit, it is now important to align the right USP of the talent
pool with that of the company.In the current corporate scenario, supply has exceeded the demand and
it has become crucial to showcase ones’ USP to be able to be recognized as an asset for the
company. With advancements in technology and with artificial intelligence slowly gripping the
world, talent acquisition is slowly shifting onto a digitalized platform.. Mr. Santosh Dwivedi gave
the example of Steve Jobs of Apple and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, who are mustangs,
respected more for their intellectual capability rather than their behavioural aspects.

GUEST LECTURE-15

TOPIC: Trade Finance

GUEST SPEAKER:

Date of Session: 13/01/2021

No. of participants: 309

Objective:

PO Attainment: PO3, PO4 & PO5

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the Session: The lecture commenced with a presentation on Indian banking
system, it included meaning of bank, products and services offered by banks, types of banks in
India, management hierarchy of Indian banks. The second part of the lecture was about Trade
Finance, its governing body, key players in international trade, products of trade finance, role of
banks in export and imports. He also spoke about the careers in banking (IBPS and management
trainees). At the end of the lecture, there was a Quiz for the students.

GUEST LECTURE-16

TOPIC: Business Opportunities as an entrepreneur

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Praveen Mishra

Date of Session: 28/01/2022

No. of participants: 209

Objective: To Know the different business career and opportunities for entrepreneurs in MSME.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Mr. Praveen Mishra is Owner of Shree Shakti Grah Udyog.
Brief Description of the Session: During the session, he talked about the different business ideas
for MSME, purpose and importance of MSME to our economy. He also told the qualification,
procedure and documents required for registration. He told about the different sectors of MSME
and most common types of small businesses. He also discussed the skills required for career as an
entrepreneur in MSME and the reasons to choose a career in MSME.

GUEST LECTURE-17

TOPIC: Career Opportunities in Insurance Sector

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Shivendra Pandey

Date of Session: 04/02/2022

No. of participants: 311

Objective: To Know the different areas of specialism/Career in

Insurance.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Mr. Shivendra Pandey is a development officer in LIC. He had 11 years of
experience in Insurance Sector.
Brief Description of the Session: In his session, he told the different areas of insurance and types
of jobs in the insurance industry and career paths with job duties and salaries. He also discussed the
skills required for career in insurance and the reasons to choose a career in insurance sector. Mr.
Pandey discussed in detail about the insurance companies working in government and private sector
to the students. He told that insurance not only makes life easier for the common man, but it also
contributes a lot in increasing the country's income. There is also an opportunity for students in
insurance for the posts ranging from insurance agent to ADO, DO etc., for which students can
prepare from today itself.

GUEST LECTURE-18

TOPIC: Reality check

GUEST SPEAKER: Ms. Divya Mishra

Date of Session: 18/02/2022

No. of participants: 320

Objective:

PO Attainment: PO3, PO4 & PO5

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the Session: He has covered all the aspects under the topic, as how to develop
mental ability as well as technical skills to achieve success in practical world. Her methodology of
presenting was excellent, as the information was in points, graphically represented which was
delightful and easy to remember. Students were into the session and her humor made it even more
interesting. They were really moved by her presence of mind when she jot down few points
regarding making a difference globally. She also explained what happens in reality & connected to
the present millennials perspective. As she spoke to students with so much ease they started sharing
their own amazing experiences. She answered all the questions patiently and listened to all the
answers, soon it became an enthusiastic and interactive session. Overall it was an amazing lecture
from an experienced person, to conclude she was an inspiration to the crowd "To not stop learning".

GUEST LECTURE-19

TOPIC: Strategy For Success

GUEST SPEAKER: Prof. Ashish Shrivastava

Date of Session: 25/02/2022

No. of participants: 320

Objective:

PO Attainment: PO3, PO4 & PO5

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the Session: The lecture began with a definition of success and what it meant
in different parameters. Explaining that success is relative, he discussed the parameters of success
in an organization as:
Profit
Scale of volume or reach
Market share
Service
Length of success period

There are certain costs at stake when you choose a wrong strategy. He explained the costs of
resources, opportunity and time. In order that a correct strategy is chosen for success, there is a
strategy that can be adopted. Firstly, the concept of 5 Why's can be applied to find the cause of the
problems hindering an organization's success. Secondly, understanding the marketing mix of an
organization for finding better ways of achieving success. It is also important to set goals and
introduce innovation into strategy. The concept of SMART is generally used. He concludes by
quoting several examples from companies that are contemporarily adopting strategies for success.
The lecture was informative and insightful. It also provided us information on importance of
marketing in an organization and the several opportunities one can take up in the field of sales and
marketing. It told us the importance of having a strategy in order to attain success. The underlying
tagline of the lecture was "HAVE A STRATEGY, BE A WINNER!"

GUEST LECTURE-20

TOPIC: How To Start A Startup

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Pramod solanki

Date of Session: 04/03/2022

No. of participants: 302

Objective: PO Attainment: PO3, PO4 & PO5

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the Session: He explained about the most important things to keep in mind
while starting a start-up. He explained that one of the most important thing of a start-up is to start
one with co-founders. This helps in not just providing varied ideas, but also for sharing
responsibility between couple of people. The investors are usually looking to invest in start-ups
which are co-founded. The start-up begins with the inception of an idea. This idea, is a result of
identifying what is missing in the world. An entrepreneur identifies this and converts this idea into a
viable product or service. The next step is to create prototypes of the product/service, and introduce
this to a sample target customer base to gain feedback. Based on the feedback received from the
customers, the entrepreneur should constantly make iterations and improve the products/services.
The start-up needs to be open to feedback while being vocal and proactive to receive the same from
the customers.

GUEST LECTURE-21

TOPIC: Living to your potential

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Pramod Solanki

Date of Session: 20/04/2022

No. of participants: 118

Objective: To understand life skills & right attitude necessary to be effective in global
environment.

PO Attainment: PO3 & PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Dr. Pramod Solanki is founder of Performance Enablers, consulting
company which is giving services to country and abroad. He got his early education from Satna. He
has worked in many reputed companies like Sun Pharma, L&T, etc.

Brief Description of the session: In his talk, Dr. Pramod Solanki emphasized on being able to live
the life of your choice, fully leveraging your capabilities. He told that always determine your values
because to realize our full potential, we need to know our values and live according to them. He
pointed out that once we consider our values, we begin to devote time to sketch what we envision as
realizing our true potential. During the lecture, he encouraged the students to set values in life,
make maximum use their potentials, keep a positive attitude, recognize their strengths and
weaknesses.

GUEST LECTURE-19

TOPIC: Role of Youths in Nation’s Development and

integrating it with Skill Development

GUEST SPEAKER : Dr. Rajkumar Acharya

Date of Session: 21/04/2022

No. of participants: 186

Objective: To understand skill development necessary to be effective in global environment.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Dr. Rajkumar Acharya is Vice Chancellor of Awadhesh Pratap Singh
University, Rewa (M.P.)

Brief Description of the session: In his Session, Dr. Rajkumar Acharya portrayed glorious history
of India, inspired the students to follow life values and ideals. Referring to the philosophy of
education of Swami Vivekananda, he said that education means the development of the inherent
powers in man. Education should be such that a person can develop physically, mentally and
spiritually. Education is not only the study of books, but the knowledge is present in the person
from which he himself learns.

GUEST LECTURE-20

TOPIC: Attributes of future managers in post pandemic era

“Digitize or Perish”

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Manish Shrivastava

Date of Session: 11/05/2022

No. of participants: 24
Objective: To understand the current changes and demand in the communication and technology
sector and learn skills needed to create digital culture and connecting with online platforms to work.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Mr. Manish Srivastava is a CEO of Acompworld. The company
“Acompworld” is a solution provider for Corporates, Government and Startups. He had done his
graduation from Vindhya Region.

Brief Description of the session: In his Session, Mr. Manish Shrivastava

said that new skills and strategies are needed to remain competitive in the
current business and economic environment. Focusing on the human resource
sector, he said that work from home, hybrid working, commitment to work,
finding good employees and retaining existing employees is a challenge for
the current human resource manager. To work in these challenges, there is a
need for skills like connecting with online platforms, digital recruitment,
creating digital culture etc.

GUEST LECTURE-21

TOPIC: Business Law

GUEST SPEAKER: Ms. Mahalakshmi P.G

Date of Session: /05/2022

No. of participants: 24

Objective: To enhance the knowledge and understanding of the students on the various types of
business structures as well as on the responsibility and duties imposed on directors when managing a
business.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the session: Ms. Mahalakshmi started the lecture by explaining ‘Legal Intention
and Capacity of contract’ to the students. Further, Ms. Mahalakshmi gave valuable insights to the
student managers on ‘Consideration and Free Consent’. They speakers also briefed students about,
how to form agreements, and what differentiates a void contract with the illegal one etc. She discussed
practical case studies with the students.. The need and importance of legal provisions was also shared
with students. Mainly some important cases dealing with business were very interesting.

GUEST LECTURE-22

TOPIC: Leadership

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Rakesh Tiwari

Date of Session: /05/2022

No. of participants:

Objective: To provide valuable insights to enable students to identify actions that set the stage for a
leader’s success in an organization.

PO Attainment: PO3

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the session: The lecture basically focused on leadership and the key factors that
are required to become a leader. As per the conversation, leadership is a guidance that is given to
others. Leadership cannot be taught. It comes from experience. In this context, he also said that the key
to success in an endeavor is the ability to lead others successfully. But before leading others you also
need to know how to lead yourself. He said that the basic definition of leadership is to influence
others. The next important point was to priorities things and that is the key to leadership. He also said
that the most important ingredient of leadership is Integrity. A leader should also have right attitude.
What happens to a person does not matter but how that person respond to that situation is more
important. He also mentioned that a leader should have a clear vision because it is the indispensable
quality of a leader.

GUEST LECTURE-23

TOPIC: Paradigm shift in skills required for being industry ready

GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Sapna Chauhan

Date of Session: 21/05/2022

No. of participants: 140

Objective: To understand the current change and demand in the skill and technology and learn
competitive skills and strategies required for business and economic environment.

PO Attainment: PO3 & PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Dr. Sapna Chauhan is entrusted with the role of HR Manager at Parul
University and is additionally working as an Assistant Professor at Parul Institute of Engineering
and Technology (PIET) for MBA Program, Faculty of Management Studies, Parul University
(Vadodara, Gujarat). She has got around 12+ year of diverse experience in Industry and Academia.

Brief Description of the session: Dr. Chauhan said that new skills and strategies are needed to
remain competitive in the current business and economic environment. He said that the world and
our future are changing, uncertain, complex, diverse. The jobs that are available at present, more
than half of the jobs will not exist in future. Through various inspirational stories, she described in
detail the power of faith, success through struggle, opportunity in challenges, teamwork, urge to
move forward, adaptability in every environment, success with consistency.

GUEST LECTURE-24

TOPIC: Changing Role of Managers Due to Rapid Change in

Technology
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. A. K. Singh

Date of Session: 06/06/2022

No. of participants: 142

Objective: To understand the future changes, changing role of managers due to rapid change in
technology and need to adapt it.

PO Attainment: PO3 & PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Mr. Awadhesh Kumar Singh is a reputed professional in the Power Sector.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Science and Engineering and Master's degree in Technology. He has
been in Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur and IIT Delhi alumnus. Prof. A K
Singh has worked with many leading industrial organizations of the country like BHEL, ABB, L&T
etc.

Brief Description of the session: During the Session, Mr. Awadhesh Kumar Singh told that
technological change will force changes in basic managerial functions. There will be increased
responsibility on management for organization outcomes leading to added emphasis on planning,
decision making, control and coordination. A changing tech landscape will require managers to
keep on top of not only their team’s skills and training, but their own, too Technology has helped
businesses effectively manage, retrieve and organize documents, not only increasing productivity,
but also reducing storage and operational costs.

GUEST LECTURE-25
TOPIC: E-Filing of Income Tax Return

GUEST SPEAKER: CA Vivek Nigam

Date of Session: 06/06/2022

No. of participants: 142

Objective: To understand the importance and process for E- filing of income tax return.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest:

Brief Description of the session: The session started with an explanation of the basic concepts of Income
Tax. Students were briefed about computation of taxable income and application of deductions under various
sections. Provisions and pre-requisites for filing return of Income were also explained thoroughly. For ease
of understanding the filing of Income Tax Return, a demo was given to the students through
www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in . The information shared raised the inquisitiveness of the students who
asked questions related to the topic. The session was informative and educative for the management students
 GUEST LECTURE-6

TOPIC: Banking and Financial Services : The Expectations

GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. Shivendra Pandey

Date of Session: 04/02/2022

No. of participants: 49

Objective: To equip the students with the expectations of banking and financial services and skills
required for it.

PO Attainment: PO4

Brief Profile of Guest: Mr. Shivendra Pandey is a development officer in LIC. He had 11 years of
experience in Insurance Sector and 5 years of experience in Corporate Sector.

Brief Description of the session: During the session, he discussed that landing a job after MBA
degree has never been straightforward. Students should prepare themselves for an ever-changing market.
Soft skills are more important skills to earn the first job, than the core MBA subjects of finance and
marketing. During this knowledge-enriching and informative session, Mr. Shivendra addressed the
MBA students on Corporate Expectations from Students and Overview of Banking and Financial
Services Industry. Further, he discussed that Recruitment operations are becoming a much more short
term with changing market and technology scenarios. Companies seek a specific combination of skills and
this combination keeps on changing from time to time. Just an MBA degree does not suffice to the skill
requirements in a fresh MBA graduate. While the ability to work with a wide variety of people is one of the
most important skills, time management, understanding of the digital impact on businesses and building a
sustaining people network is considered as highly rated skills in an MBA graduate today.