Tips for Graduating Students/Young Managers

• Cross Cultural Communication:


A global environment implies business models based on supply or value chains, models resulting from acquisition, mergers and restructuring. This scenario naturally necessitates that we appreciate diverse cultures in our workforce and acquire necessary skills to deal in cross-cultural communication.

• Attrition

With a whole lot of new sectors coming into the fold India today has a lot for opportunities for young professionals than a few years back. This again has a flip side. As ladies and gentleman managing functions, retaining your team is going to be the greatest challenge in the years ahead. You must appreciate this isn’t just a problem for the HR fraternity ---it’s everybody’s problem now.

• HR and Marketing Skills for everyone

Infact, every business model today necessitates that executives be skilled in the HR and Marketing functions because anyways you shall be managing people and your success shall lie in success of those you manage. Again out of pure business need every entrepreneur explicitly or implicitly desires that you market the brand both internally and externally.

• Multitasking

Business today also demands that one gets into the multi-tasking mode. Instead of cribbing about limited or unavailable resources modern managers are expected to make do with available resources and make do in the best possible way.

• Networking

The importance of networking was never so underscored as it is now. From being frowned upon or being branded as “unethical”, managers who are effective in networking at the personal and professional level are not just admired or respected but are undoubtedly in huge demand.

• Good Human Being

I believe if one wishes to be liked and admired by everybody in the circuit one needs to be a good human being. Humility, Compassion, Sense of Humor, Empathy and Honesty – these eternal values are gaining more importance ironically in an age where the human being is often reduced to a robot. Perhaps that is the reason why a good human being in blood and flesh is in great demand! Good Manager or Good Human Being? In the years ahead there won’t be much of a difference between the two.