Posts Tagged ‘Professional Development’
Achieving successful external engagement in the face of budget, staff and strategic challenges
Lack of budget, absence of strategy, shortage of staff and short-term thinking are the top challenges faced by professional services staff in business schools from a new report published by Roe Communications, CarringtonCrisp and EFMD Global. The report provides insights into the biggest challenges (pre- and post-COVID), the skills needed, budget expenditure and the channels…
Read MoreFrom Adaptation to Innovation: How the Corona Pandemic Changed Business Education
Written by Andreas Rasche, Associate Dean of Copenhagen Business School and EFMD Executive Academy Alumni and Jordi Diaz, Dean of EADA Business School and Director of EFMD Executive Academy How did the Corona pandemic affect business schools around the world? How do schools prepare for an uncertain Fall Term? Seeking answers to these questions, EFMD…
Read MoreCareer Professionals Development Institute: Lessons learned and implemented
By Rachel Tonner, Head of MBA Careers Provision at Imperial College Business School and a graduate of Career Professionals Development Institute 2019 My colleague and I attended the EFMD Careers Professional Development Institute in November 2019 where we experienced an extremely enjoyable, informative and motivating two days. The environment was informal, welcoming and there was…
Read MoreA pivotal time for business school leaders
Leadership is a concept in perpetual evolution, a mobile target. Being adaptable is, therefore, crucial to effectively navigate the ever-changing political, economic, and cultural contexts. Even though people in leading positions are often well prepared and endowed for the required level of adaptability, the last couple of months have taken the demands on our leaders…
Read MoreEducating the leaders of the post-Covid future
Léon Laulusa of ESCP Business School tells Stephanie Mullins, Account Director at BlueSky Education, how the Covid-19 pandemic has thrust the world into a “new normal” and what the implications are for educating the business leaders of the future. Here’s what he had to say… Over the two centuries of its existence, ESCP Business School…
Read MoreGamification: its place in higher education and how you fit in
Has the digital world brought too many distractions for your learners? Teaching in these digital times means that we all have access to more information immediately, and this has many positives, but it also means that we are “competing” with that access, all the time. Should we forbid digital devices during our face-to-face sessions? What…
Read MoreNext stage: Developing a sustainable online strategy
Business school faculty all over the globe are, as we speak, preparing to move their teaching online. The Covid-19 crisis has forced schools to close down campuses and take action to support student learning using new aids. Transferring lectures online? In this new situation, the first stage for many schools seems to be the transfer…
Read MoreLeading oneself, leading successful programmes
Jordi Diaz, Associate dean at EADA Business School and the Director of the EFMD Executive Academy, has been interviewed by Kate Tattersfield from FULL FABRIC, a software solution helping universities deliver a world-class experience across the whole student journey. Learn more about the Executive Academy and Jordi’s role as a director. Hi Jordi! Firstly, why…
Read MoreKTU researchers created virtual tools to help companies enter international markets
Researchers of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have created a digital assessment tool and first virtual training program that will help businesses to evaluate capabilities and readiness to operate in the international market and develop competencies needed for this. Target group – CEO and owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), startups and prospective entrepreneurs…
Read MoreThe Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Competition
The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Competition –Apply by November 15, 2019 The Rockefeller Foundation is pleased to announce the biannual competition for academic, artist and practitioner residencies at the Bellagio Center. The Center is located in the village of Bellagio on Lake Como in Italy and offers individuals a setting conducive to focused work, as…
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