• Demonstrate positive attitude in changing scenarios
• Understand the concept of circle of influence and circle of concern

• ways to address their anxiety and overcome them
• How focusing on the circle of influence can result in reduced stress levels.

• Importance of positive attitude and its relation to opportunities in life.
• Concepts – circle of concern and circle of influence
• How to demonstrate positive attitude in life to overcome adverse situations

• To create better understanding among students about equal participation of both Male and Female across the globe.
• To encourage women entrepreneurship

• Session created awareness about social inclusiveness amongst student.
• Student came to know the social entrepreneurial aspect while working with NGO

• To enhance the employability factor of the students by providing them inputs related to developing their competencies
• To nurture collaborative and networking skills in students

• The goal of the club is to bring about a complete metamorphosis of the students after taking the admission for MBA course. It is to prepare the students in communication skills, soft skills and presentation skills by providing training and special guidance, so that the students’ employability is enhanced, they can compete well in the job market and become industry ready to face the new challenges being encountered in their professional careers and take right decisions in life. Another objective of this club is empowering the students to cope with emotions and stress.

• The present job market demands candidates who are proficient in communication and soft skills while being able to blend well with a global workforce. Today’s graduates lack proper training and confidence. Hence there is a need to bridge this gap. There is also a need to inspire and motivate these students for excellence in every sphere of life.

• MBA department has taken initiative to enhance skill and competencies by arranging sessions for communication skills, written skills technical skills

• In the academic year 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 students of MBA department consecutively completed their experiential learning and sponsored project in companies such as Vijaya Bank, Big Bazar, Bajaj Finserv, Tata Ion, Kirloskar. Companies appreciated the students’ skills and offered them internships. Various certification courses completed by the students.

• To give the overview of various functions of management
• To make students ready for the course of Business Administration

• To encourage students to get clarity on their career path.
• To inspire and instigate the students to improve industry required skillset.

• To help students identify visually aesthetic images
• To create an idea about use of visual imagery in advertising
• To showcase the photographs for identifying effective visual communication

• The students submitted visually aesthetic images and understood the importance of visual imagery in advertising.
• They learnt how to display images for effective visual communication
• Management traits such as Patience, Perseverance, Preparedness, Perspective, Perception, Passion and Perfection were demonstrated through the event

• To encourage the habit of reading
• To celebrate the new forms of knowledge repositories
• To build confidence in presentation skills

• To make students aware about importance of "Gender equality” in today’s world
• To encourage budding women entrepreneurs in the Department

• The session helped all girls to understand what they can do and how they can do to create good career for themselves. It also helped boys and men to understand their role in creating a more equal world

The international Women’s Day is an opportunity to rejoice and recharge together in society with women across the world. Mrs. Sunita Shetty in her talk on "Gender equality and it’s important for the growth of organization and for a healthy society”. She said that young women can make a difference in the workplace for themselves and for the organization if they seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. She also helped men in the audience understand the challenges women face and what they can do to support them. In the second half of the program Ms. Prashanti Bijapur, MBA I student shared her journey as a budding blogger. Then, Ms. Aishwarya Satam, MBA II student also shared her experience as a first generation women entrepreneur in a creative venture. She said that her mantra is “Take challenges and never give up.”

• To share information about skills required by students in the journey from Campus to Corporate

The session was initiated by Mr. Sharad Gangal. He shared his views on good listening skills and its impact in today’s life. He enumerated his experience with different examples. Mr. Badbade emphasized on the concept “BE YOURSELF” Mr. Aniruddha Kaul discussed on manual for MBA Students where he shared that students should look, dress, think, act and behave like managers. The session was inaugurated by Dr. Kalyani Srinivas HoD, MBA Department and vote of thanks was proposed by Ms. Swati More.

• To familiarize students in R software which is used for the research activities in academics
• To enhance the analytical skills for research
• To equip students to gain understanding of basics of analytics using language R and Excel

Businesses are generating humungous amount of data now a days through various sources. In order to be employable students needs to enhance the analytical skills in the area of research. Total number of students registered were 58 from MBA I and II.
They are finding it difficult to make sense of that data and gain meaningful insight. As these students face acute shortage of basic analytics skills. The main reason of conducting this workshop is to equip the students so that they can gain in-depth understanding of analytical tools like R and Excel. The endeavour of this workshop was to learn to swim in an ocean called Analytics. This is one of the most popular courses to bridge the gap between students from non-analytical background.

• To inspire a spirit of entrepreneurship among the students
• To know the factors which are helpful for building entrepreneurship
• To understand the highs and lows of the life of an entrepreneur

A video presentation competition “Bottom of Entrepreneurship Pyramid” was organized to instill a spirit of entrepreneurship among the student.
This activity was conducted to provide the students an opportunity to know about the competencies, skills and attitude required to become an entrepreneur. Students groups interviewed first generation entrepreneur and presented their learning in the form of group presentation and film clipping. The experts judged the event and shared their own experiences as an entrepreneur.

• To create awareness among students about need of information security in an organization

Regardless of the size of the organization, there is a need to ensure the security of the information assets. A seminar was organized by the MBA Department to build this awareness.
The C-I-A triangle states that protecting data means protecting its confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Failure to protect all three of these aspects includes business losses, legal liability, and loss of company goodwill. Mr. Nikhil Marathe spoke on basics of Information Security, Security Threats and Vulnerabilities, Cryptography, Encryption, Server Management, Firewalls and Security Management.

• Understanding importance of public speaking skills
• Sharing tips for effective public speaking

• Participants appreciated that Public Speaking Skills are essential for over all development and is the key to success in corporate life.

The seminar on Skills development for effective public speaking was organized at the MBA department. Public speaking skills help everyone to communicate important messages within and outside the organization.
Mr. Raghav Khaddkar said communication is the backbone of our society. It allows us to set connections, influence decisions, and stimulate change. Without communication skills, the ability to progress in the corporate world would be nearly impossible. He shared basic tips which everyone can adopt for effective communication.

• To inspire creativity and enhance writing skills in the students
• To encourage in-depth analysis on the given topic

• To list the criticality of emotional intelligence in work, life and relationships
• To distinguish emotional intelligence from other forms of intelligences

• To correlate theoretical concepts in management by idea generation
• To develop managerial vision among students by adopting various management theories

My Friend Ganesha- "The Management Leader" activity was conducted in the department. This innovative Activity was conducted in order to boost novel ideas by students.

It seems Lord Ganesha is not just the remover of obstacles and a god of knowledge. He's also a management guru who embodies the qualities needed by a smart manager. His big head inspires us to dream big and profitably, his big ears instruct us to listen attentively to new ideas and suggestions, his narrow eyes signify the need to concentrate, and his small mouth reminds us that silence is golden.

In order to highlight key leadership traits, MBA students have taken the symbolic meaning of Lord Ganesha’s body image and come up with few lessons that help us become successful leaders.

• To understand and communicate various forms of argument effectively in a variety of contexts.
• To develop the ability to analyze controversies, select and evaluate evidence, construct and disprove arguments.

• To learn the process of communicating arguments with people.
• To clarify ones personal and social values through argument with the value judgments of others.

• To create belongingness towards our Nation

The War of Words was a group discussion organized by MBA department under Metamorph Club. There were thirteen groups from MBA first year and second year students. The topic for discussion was "India and Independence". Each group performed well with unique ideas and thoughts.

• To make the students familiar with group dynamics concepts
• To understand the impact of grapevine communication in the organization.
• To learn how to resolve stress
• To introduce concepts like leadership, Quality management

Bumble Bee workshop was organised by MBA Department of PES Modern College of Engineering. This workshop was conducted by the Management trainers, Ms. Padmini Panse and Mr. Saumitra Marathe from the organisation Bumble Bee. The workshop focused on learning management concepts through games such as:

• Snakes and ladders: The game was about vertical growth as well as sudden decline in the manager’s career. A manager should necessarily be able to cope up with changes in his/ her corporate career Here the snakes depicts obstacles in the career and ladders represent growth opportunities.
• Team management game etc.