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Leadership Skills

What Makes a Good Leader?
Why is Teamwork Important?
Why Leadership Is Important in Business organizations and Workplace?

Leadership Training Program was created with an aim to help you analyze yourself and assess your skills, interest, personality and aptitude. Creating and leading a successful team needs time, dedication, effort and skill. With our program, you will learn what it takes to be a good leader, how to form a team, and how to continuously improve the way your team functions and lead it to success.

Our program helps you know yourself and your team better and analyze how well your team works in decision making, problem solving, time management and adapting to change. We also provide interactive sessions and games where your entire team is involved in activities.

There are three levels for different age groups.
Some Leadership Myths:

·         Myth 1 - Leadership is innate and you need to be born with it
Leadership develops through hard work and careful observation. Usually people learn it by experience and waste a lot of time to understand its principles. However, the good news is that leadership skills and qualities can also be taught.

·         Myth 2 -Leadership is possessing power over others
Leadership is a power with people that exists as a reciprocal relationship between a leader and his/her followers. A good leader will have many followers even though he/she may not have authoritative powers.

·         Myth 3 - Leadership and management are the same
The biggest difference between managers and leaders is the way they motivate the people who work or follow them, and this sets the tone for most other aspects of what they do. Leaders lead people to a destiny, while managers manage resources.

What you can expect from this program

·         Learn valuable lessons of leadership and teamwork in fun manner

·         Understand and develop leadership skills and principles

·         Create and motivate effective and successful teams

·         Promote better communication and trust

·         Apply your team's best personality traits to organization's advantage

·         Transform from Good to Great!

  

5 jobs expected to boom this year

1. Business Operations Manager

Leaving their imprint throughout several company departments, operations managers hire people, acquire materials for customers, and attempt to predict what products are most likely to sell.

The field can be characterized as high-demand and low-supply, with plenty of opportunity for those thinking of dipping their toe in it. "If we talk to any employer, that's the [position] they're most interested in, especially around the idea of project management," Cote notes. "So being able to run an operation and [in] particular, to manage complex projects, there's an increasing demand and fewer people there to fill it."

It's also a profession welcoming of individuals who possess the rare duel qualities of business instinct and a penchant for number-crunching. "It tends to require a blending of quantitative skills and qualitative skills, and that seems to be an area where people fall on one side or the other, but that middle road is not one people pursue," he says.

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2. HR Specialist

Depending on the size of a company, the responsibilities of a human resources (HR) specialist can include recruitment, hiring, training, employee benefits, compensation, job enrichment, relocation, performance, termination, and outplacement. Over the coming decade, the field is expected to grow by 20.5 percent.

With a brighter economic picture, companies are seeking more HR specialists to help integrate new employees. "As we come out of the recession, companies are adding people, and you need HR people to take care of the people coming in," says Sharmyn Calhoun, president of the National Human Resources Association.

To achieve success in the field, Calhoun recommends a formal education and possibly a graduate degree in an area like human-resource management or labor relations. A law degree can also be a great asset if you work for a unionized company, she notes.

If the company you work for has a large staff and the area of your focus is singular, it's still important to be well-versed in all HR disciplines and know how they affect the company as a whole. "You have to be able to think strategically across all the disciplines to be successful in an HR specialist or generalist role," Calhoun says.

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3. Market Research Analyst

Conducting polls, crunching numbers, analyzing human behavior--these are a few of the techniques market research analysts use to decipher the shopping patterns and trends of consumers. The field is expected to grow by about 41 percent in the coming decade.

A key driver of that growth is the business world's love of data. By dissecting and analyzing data, companies not only gain a strategy for increasing their bottom line, but for understanding what makes consumers tick.

"The more we have of data and the better quality that data is, the more useful it will be in creating strategy, and so I just don't see the market research analyst as a position going away anytime soon," says Joseph Cote, professor of marketing at Washington State University.

Financial Adviser

Mutual funds, asset classes, diversification--these are a few investment terms financial advisers break down as they direct you on where to allocate your money. Employment in the field is expected to grow by 32 percent by the decade's end.

Thomas Blanchfield, managing director of investments for the private banking and investment group at Merrill Lynch, notes that the need for financial advisers has grown in part because employees are increasingly managing their own retirement savings these days.

"I think that person is obligated to look after their own finances in a way that they perhaps weren't in a previous generation," he says. "For those people that don't feel they are prepared to do it themselves, they are seeking advice," he says.

While successful financial advisers are savvy money managers, they must also understand their clients. "The understanding of human emotions and how that affects people's desire, or lack of desire, to be an investor, is really an important part of the job," Blanchfield says.

Management Analyst

Companies hampered by disorganization often turn to management analysts for thoughtful strategies to shave away inefficiency and increase profits. Between 2010 and 2020, employment in the field is expected to grow by 22 percent.

Good management analysts, according to Cote, grasp how various organizational players create wealth for a firm. Another piece to that puzzle, he notes, is having the skills to manage stakeholder relationships to maximize a company's profits. "As you move into a more global economy, what we're seeing is that what makes a firm successful is understanding how to balance the [corporate] network or ecosystem around it," says Cote.

In that new business climate, "really understanding how an organization functions and how you structure an organization to gain its maximum value--I think that's going to become an increasingly important function," he adds.

TCS Recruitment for BU students

BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY – COIMBATORE - 641 046

Department of Extension and Career Guidance

TCS Campus Placements

October 11-14, 2012

Eligible students

Organized only for the student of the

• University Departments and Affiliated Colleges
• 2013 Passing out students and 2012 graduates
• B.Sc. all streams (except Statistics)

·         B.A. all streams (except Economics)

·         B.Com. (all streams)

·         B.B.M. / B.B.A. (all streams)

·         M.Com. (all streams)

·         M.A. (all streams except Economics)

·         B.C.A.

·         M.B.A, M.C.A, M.Sc. (all subjects) students are not eligible. M.Sc graduates (all subjects) will be considered for KPO

·         Students / graduates from other Universities are not eligible to attend the event

·         Register with your Placement Officers to attend the event

·         Not More than two years of gap in Education

Selection process:

·         An Aptitude test for 40-50 minutes to check Basic Maths, English, Logical Reasoning and Mental Application

·         G.D. and H.R Round

Initial Posting

·         Chennai / Bangalore

Fees

·         There is no Registration fee for the Universities and Colleges. Event conducted directly by M/s TCS, Chennai.

Model Test

·         Visit www.careervarsity.com, www.aptitudecoach.com for Model Aptitude test, G.D. and Interview tips.

Venue and Dates

Date	Place	Colleges
11.10.2012	Kongu Arts and Science College, Erode	Erode District colleges except Gobi.
11.10.2012	P.K.R. Arts College, Gobi	Gobi Area colleges.
12.10.2012	PSGR Krishnammal College for Women (Golden  jubilee Placement event) (Girls only)	Coimbatore District colleges
12.10.2012	VLB Janakiammal College, Kovaipudur	Coimbatore District colleges
12.10.2012	SNR Sons College Silver jubilee Placement event	Coimbatore District colleges
12.10.2012	Hindusthan College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore	Coimbatore District colleges
12.10.2012	Kovai Kalaimagal College of Arts and Science	Coimbatore District colleges
13.10.2012	Saraswathi Thiyagaraja College of Arts and Science, Pollachi	Pollachi and Udumelpet colleges
11.10.2012	Tirupur Kumaran College for Women	Tirupur District colleges
14.10.2012	Providence  College for Women, Coonoor	Nilgiris District colleges