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 Uday Salunkhe Hosts  The NHRDN Conference At Bengaluru

Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, anchored the session on Overhauling Our Education System to meet India’s Human Capability Needs. The 15th national conference was organized by NHRD Network at Palace Grounds in Bengaluru. The theme of the event was ‘Live and Breathe the Change.’

The event was graced by academic luminaries including Dileep Ranjekar – CEO of Azim Premji Foundation, Anand Sudarshan – CEO of Manipal Education and Dr. Pankaj Chandra – Director of IIM Bangalore. Dr. Uday Salunkhe introduced these guest speakers to the audience.

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Why An Interactive Workshop Is The Next Best Thing To A Lecture

Lectures – the traditional method of imparting education – require students to concentrate on the knowledge provider without demanding much participation. Even the most conscientious student can find his attention wavering in the face of an uninterrupted stream of information. Taking down notes is a great way to make a lecture seem less monotonous. But, if you don’t find the idea of attending a classroom lecture very appealing, it may want to consider a learning approach that is more fun and almost as effective.

An interactive workshop is a high-energy learning experience which is packed in a short duration of time. It allows students to try out classroom concepts and find solutions to specific problems in an entertaining, yet practical manner.

“A workshop is a more participatory platform than a lecture. Participants get to think for themselves, receive inputs from others, and learn in a collaborative environment”, says Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Research and Development (WeSchool). An interactive workshop utilizes a variety of learning tools and methods, such as interesting multimedia, role-playing simulations, presentations and interactive games, that are well-equipped to keep the students engaged. The increased level of participation ensures that the mind does not drift and learning is maximised. Moreover, on-the-spot assignments test the students’ resourcefulness and ability to work under pressure. The feedback from the presenter and the group can significantly enhance the students’ quality of work.

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Welingkar - Rising Globally With Alliances

Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Mumbai, has formed an alliance with Curtin Business School in order to facilitate mutual cooperation in the field of educational research. WeSchool is one of the top 10 management institutions in India and CBS is a part of Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. This partnership is a step towards cooperation between Australia & India in the field of education and research.

Curtin Business School (CBS), the largest teaching division of Curtin University, is one of the most comprehensive business schools in Australia. The Economist ranked CBS #2 globally under Student Quality.

The MoU (memorandum of understanding) was signed by Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Welingkar Institute with Prof. David Wood, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Curtin University. The event was graced by the presence of various authorities from the office of Australia’s Counsul General and from CBS, the faculty, students of Welingkar Institute and other leading personalities from the academia & industry.

Prof.Dr.Uday Salunkhe said, “This MOU with Curtin University will facilitate exchange of students and faculty members on reciprocal basis and help conduct and organize cultural projects, study tours and opportunities to conduct joint research projects in emerging fields. It will also offer new avenues for our students to study in an international environment  I am confident that our association will accomplish a  balanced and broad based cooperation not only between the two institutes but also between two countries in various areas of mutual interest.”

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Dr Uday Salunkhe Speaks To The Financial Express

WeSchool bagged two awards at Assocham’s 9th Higher Education Summit in New Delhi for the ‘Best Innovative Institute’ while Dr. Uday Salunkhe was honoured as ‘Best Education Entrepreneur’.

Here are some bytes from his interview with Vikram Chaudhary of The Financial Express:

Expectations from the upcoming Union Budget: Education needs more resources, funds and focus. The government must spend more on infrastructure with intense focus on quality and expanse.

“Higher Education creates professionals who can fuel the growth engine,” says Dr. Uday Salunkhe.

Views on Start-up India: Start-ups are going mainstream as they create wealth and generate employment. This is fourth industrial revolution. During such times, the start-up culture is bound to grow, and must grow.

Universities’ role in Start-up India and Skill India: Universities will help create an atmosphere to promote entrepreneurial mindset, risk-taking and, most importantly, an attitude that is not averse to failures. A few institutions, like IIT Bombay, The Munktell Science Park of Malardalen University in Stockholm are good examples.

Entrepreneurship cannot be taught in just two years at a business school. Thoughts? The statement is partially true. Entrepreneurship is a culture, not a workshop. It needs to be imbibed from an early age. Training is pivotal here. Two years of business school provides live projects, industry interface, EQ training, soft skills, internships and much more that help in creating entrepreneurs.

On the experience of working at the Nashik Kumbh: It was launched in collaboration with the MIT to resolve several civic issues. The initiative gave students a platform to complement technological solutions with management innovation. Students worked on several projects ranging from basic amenities to traffic management and health services.

Association with MIT: WeSchool has signed an MoU with MIT’s Venture Mentoring Services that gives access to methodologies used by them for mentoring ventures on their campus.

On Welingkar’s Venture Mentoring Platform? Welingkar has a mentor board comprising entrepreneurs, investors and attorneys. They interact with student to provide views on the concepts of ventures, the business model, and target groups. There are over 33 successful ventures that have taken off from this platform in the past three years.

On training corporates: Our MDPs cater to over 70 corporate houses, training personnel at different levels of their career.

Efforts on assimilating youth from Northeast India: We are working on enhanced interaction, representation and academic connectivity with the Northeast. The region has about 36 business schools. WeSchool will devise a plan on how to give them a bigger and meaningful exposure.

For More On Story Follow The Link: The Financial Express

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WeSchool Awarded Best Innovative Institute And Dr Uday Salunkhe The Best Education Entrepreneur

WeSchool Awarded “Best Innovative Institute” and Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe the “Best Education Entrepreneur” Award at ASSOCHAM’s 9th Higher Education Summit, National Excellence Awards at the hands of Union HRD Minister of State, Prof Dr. Ram Shankar Katheria

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Dr. Uday Salunkhe Recognized With Best Teacher Award by Higher Education Forum

In a welcoming moment for Welingkar, Group Director and Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe has been recognized by Higher Education Forum for his contribution to the management education in India. He was awarded the ‘Best Teacher Award’ in Global Leadership category. The award was presented by Ms Jaya Row, Founder of Vedanta Vision.

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Maharashtra Times Maifal, A Treat For The Literature Buffs At Welingkar

Maharashtra Times Maifal (MATA Maifal)was a Litfest hosted by Maharashtra Times for 2 days on 21st and 22nd January 2016. Welingkar was an Academic Partner to the event and the host. The chief guests at the event were Ashok Panvalkar, Group Editor, MaTa; Prof Dr Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, WeSchool and Prof Dr Sanjay Deshmukh, Vice Chancellor, University of Mumbai.

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Dr Uday Salunkhe At Loksatta Anniversary

Prof Dr Uday Salunkhe was a one of the special guest invitees at the Loksatta anniversary function on 19.1.2016.

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Maharashtra Times Maifal At Welingkar Institute

Renowned author Amish Tripathi inaugurated Maharashtra Times Maifal at Welingkar Institute. On this occasion, CM Of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis also attended this function. Prof Dr Uday Salunkhe linking WeSchool with national and state agenda unfolds the vision.

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Exhibition On Healthcare Technology Held At Welingkar

Welingkar, in partnership with Camera Culture Group and MIT Media Lab (USA) organized a prototype exhibition and open house of redefining diagnostics at Welingkar campus. Student of Welingkar Varun Vartak,PGDM(Healthcare) explains ARAM ,the sleep apnea. Also ARAM demo . We can see visitors taking it all in at Cardio 24 display also lightear

The diagnostic equippment developed in MIT Maker space at WeSchool are :ARAM ,skinspect and Lightear . Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director of WeSchool, congratulated the team and said, “ReDx 2016 is another milestone in our collaborative journey towards creating innovations that aim to provide healthcare solutions for people across the globe.

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MaharashtraTimes Maifal With WeSchool As Academic Partner

The event saw writers, poets, critics,translators and bloggers coming together at WeSchool in a spirit to be there and share their diversity of experiences. We were also privileged to have Devendra Fadnavis,Hon'ble CM of Maharashtra State who shared his journey as a reader and how it influenced his persona. Mr Ashok Panvalkar,Group Editor,Ma Ta welcomes Prof Dr Uday Salunkhe,Group Director, Welingkar. Linking WeSchool with national and state agenda, Prof Dr Uday Salunkhe unfolds the vision. Also Dr Uday Salunke greeting Hon'ble CM of Maharashtra

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The Nobel Creativity At Welingkar

On his visit to Mumbai at the Welingkar Institute of Management, Tobias Degsell, the curator at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, emphasised on the importance of creativity for innovation. He said that the forbidden acts of disrespect, question, playfulness, failure or mistakes can be the key to unleashing the creativity inherent in everybody.

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Exhibition On Technology In Healthcare Held At Welingkar

Welingkar, in partnership with Camera Culture Group and MIT Media Lab (USA) organized a prototype exhibition and open house of redefining diagnostics at WeSchool campus.

The exhibition brought together nearly hundred students, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and investors to address healthcare issues in India. Most promising projects were selected for further development at WeSchool campus.

Innovators will work on development of prototypes for different healthcare solutions with the guidance from researchers.

Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director of WeSchool, congratulated the team and said, “ReDx 2016 is another milestone in our collaborative journey towards creating innovations that aim to provide healthcare solutions for people across the globe. This convergence of design thinking, technology and empathy has created a wonderful platform for stakeholders from diverse streams to get together to design the much needed healthcare diagnostic devices which will have immense social value and impact in the times to come.

During ReDx, Welingkar students have helped transform potentially high impact ideas sourced from health researchers and doctors and transformed them into working prototypes and executable business solutions and we are looking forward to taking them ahead.”

Prof. Dr Ramesh Raskar of MIT Media labs described ReDx as a joint venture between USA and India in a bid to solve healthcare challenges. The collaboration works with number of stakeholders to enable young minds in finding innovative solutions by rethinking, engineering and designing towards executable business solutions.

Some of the prototypes displayed at the open-house were, Apnea Rest Analysis Mask (ARAM), Cardio24, SkinSpect, LightEar, SenseCam, Anterior segment imaging device, Portable pupilometer, EpiMetrics.

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Controlling Attrition With Training And Retraining By Uday Salunkhe

Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe, group director, Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, justifies Training and Retraining as the perfect tool to tackle attrition

Corporates are thinking about retaining over firing because of the huge shortage of trained manpower across industries. There are confronting complex issues today with ill-defined problems and unclear solutions. It is evident that people produce and innovate better in collaborative networks and not individually.

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The trait finds roots in the natural evolution process as the females were to keep the clan together while the males went out looking for resources.

Men seem to be more individualistic and rigid while women have a more fluid personality. The skills of managing come naturally to women. Decision-making insight that requires diligent handling of human resources, with the involved tangibles and intangibles is innate in women. The higher EQ in women helps them in taking people along and also perform a range of tasks, in all roles.

Women are more passionate; and can pull out all stops to ensure that definitive moves are made with the team in the tow towards the desired direction. They are masters in multi-tasking with their multi-faceted personae; and their cohesion and traction among the team is adorable. Women are better sensed to gauge the real situation, the constituents, their roles, risk and possible outcome. They are good at risk management.

Another view says that there is no difference between successful women managers and successful male managers. Both demonstrate high levels of those competencies that are required for delivering top performance and sustaining the same. “Women have proved their credentials and are respected to what they bring to the table; gender becomes a non-issue.” says Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Welingkar Institute of Management. Gender neutrality has already made its entry in most of the sectors. And the trend is here for good.

For where the nuances of women managers and how they manage male direct reports are concerned, a bit of common sense and professionalism is what the male followers need to keep in mind and practice. Male followers should know the style of working of their female bosses and when in doubt ask for clarity. And the rest falls in place. All bosses are human and colleagues albeit senior.

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Governance and Thought Leadership, A Symbiotic Relationship

“Governance and thought leadership are two inextricably entwined traits.” says Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Welingkar Institute of Management.

Without effective thought leadership, governance remains a myth; it becomes effective and inclusive only if the element of thought leadership is at its core, which is reflected in the inclusive progress of all sections of society. The extreme challenges thrown up by the turbulent transition in our ecosystem can be solved with thought-leadership. Thought-leadership helps us face the external fluctuation and internal challenges smoothly.

Thought leadership configures feasible solutions considering even the last man and paves the way for governance works its way towards aspired goals, through challenges, dilemmas, and diversity. Thought leaders are futuristic and have the ability to connect the dots — their policies are set accordingly. A similar pattern can be observed in the government targets and their efforts in the direction.

A huge task for the leadership is to invest in the people and their mindsets. Attitude changes are required to yield optimum results. The recent visit by our Prime Minister to Silicon Valley brought forth the grey areas holding back innovation culture and growth of our own Silicon Valleys. These attitude changes have to be delicately worked upon and may call for bold reforms. Thought leadership has to be utilised to stitch together conflicting, but worthy mindsets seamlessly.

A thought leader ensures effective partnership among various stakeholders by taking them along, drawing out the best and willing cooperation from all, with tact, equanimity and vision. It needs incisive details of all the various elements at play.  

A huge demographic section lives in inhabitable conditions. Effective thought leadership can enable the governance to reach the accruing benefits to people at large and mitigate the huge inequities. Thought leadership gives the leaders an enabling infrastructure to execute their ideas and innovations customised to meet the needs of the underprivileged in a system. Thought leadership is quintessentially inherent in governance.

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4 mantras to possibly becoming a Noble Laureate are, Creativity, Persistency, Collaboration and Diversity. Tobias Degsell, Curator at Nobel Museum addresses students at WeSchool, Mumbai

We believe the inspiration for creativity and the ability to turn this creativity into something meaningful for businesses and society increases multifold with a diverse ecosystem that channelizes this energy. So as educators if we focus on creating such ecosystems, the youth will make in India and ensure we are a nation to be proud of.” Prof Dr Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Welingkar.

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