Dr. Ashish Dikshit has been working as the Dean of Research, Training and Development for Poddar Group of Institutions. He has a wonderful 22+ years of corporate experience and 10 years of experience in academic research and training. He has done B. Sc. and LLB in Administrative Laws from University of Lucknow in 1986 and 1989 respectively, PGDBA in Marketing Management and Information Systems from Jaipuria Institute of Management in 1999 and Ph.D. in Human Resources Management from Suresh Gyan Vihar University of Jaipur in 2019 as part of his academics. He has in-depth knowledge and exposure of Human Resources, Sales and Business Development, Client Management primarily in the Banking and Finance Domain, Media, Hospitality and Social Development Sector. And his core strengths include Strategic Planning, Corporate Presentations, Portfolio Management, Branch Management, Advisory Services, Business Development, Equity Operations, Marketing, Training & Development, Sales Promotion, CRM - Team Management, Liaison/ Coordination - Reports and Documentation. He has published 4 research papers, attended 4 international conferences and 6 Faculty Development Programs and workshops. He has earned certification of Licentiate Examination of the Insurance Institute of India and 100 Hours of training from an IRDA accredited institute.

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What are your roles and responsibilities towards the students?

"I am responsible for the supervision and monitoring of college activities and ensuring best facilities for students and teachers"

Being the Dean, the scope of my responsibilities is very vast and dynamic in nature and I am primarily responsible for educating students, making sure they are punctual for their classes and also for doing internal assessments and conducting evaluations of students after exams. Apart from this, developing best practical learning methodologies, course material, audiovisual/multimedia materials and PowerPoint presentations to teach students, organizing group discussions, completing syllabus within stipulated time, preparing question papers after consultation with the Course Coordinator to make sure course content allows students to meet outcomes associated with that course also comes under the scope of my responsibilities. Also, guiding students whenever they get stuck somewhere, solving their issues on time, regularly updating Course Coordinator about students' progress, maintaining students' attendance records, providing job updates and opportunities to them, maintaining teachers’ handbooks, attending meetings with the course instructors and coordinators to discuss issues affecting learning process of students and conducting innovative research programs, workshops, seminars, symposia, visits and excursions etc.is also part of my day to day tasks.

How do you introduce a practical and industry-oriented approach toward subjects?

"We organize expert sessions for corporate managers and industrial visits for industrial exposure of students" 

For the purpose of introducing an industry-driven and practical learning approach towards subjects, I take my students on industrial visits and also arrange expert talks in collaboration with Corporate Managers to give an overview to our students of how exactly things work on a ground level and how people and processes work together to fulfill shared goals of an organization

How do you establish healthy relations with the students and fellow faculty?

"By being a regular communicator and good listener for them"

With the intention of maintaining a good relationship with everyone, I regularly communicate with them and try to explore their background and the cultural environment they have been brought up in during our interaction. And my interaction time with my students is not restricted to the classroom only but I stay in touch with them after classes as well so that I can know their personal and academic issues and queries and can fix them on time. I also play games with them to teach them the importance of teamwork and that games are fun and also improve learning outcomes. In addition to this, we attend extracurricular events for students, and conduct Role Plays and Activity based Learning programs in the classroom. 

And with Faculty members we all work as a team and whenever they need my support, I guide them to the best of my capabilities and also encourage them to collaborate on research work.

How do you guide and prepare your students to survive in such a competitive world?

"By providing customized training programs to them and full support for research projects"

We prepare our students to face this cut-throat competitive world by offering them training suitably as per the current market scenario and helping them in building up a strong personality, knowledge base, communication skills and self-confidence. Therefore, we use case studies to explain concepts to them so that they can relate the things with practical scenarios. Apart from all this, I encourage them to maintain a healthy competitive spirit and compete amongst themselves. And we provide our full support to them to update their knowledge so that participating in the competition will not be stressful and embarrassing. Lastly, they are motivated to consider participating in competitions so that they can assess their strengths and weaknesses.

Being the Dean of the institution, what is your philosophy of leadership?

"Leaderships for me is all about empowering others and making best use of their expertise to achieve institution goals"

I believe in teamwork and a collaborative way of working. And from my experiences, I know that a leader's strength depends upon his bonding with his team members, so a leader should always encourage the team members to provide suggestions and give their best for tasks assigned to them. 

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How do you strategize and update the curriculum to make it befitting for the students? 

"Curriculum has been developed keeping in mind the strategies followed by other Business Schools"

Our PGDM Curriculum has been designed strategically as per the curriculum followed by top Business Schools and updates are incorporated into it on a regular basis as per the industry norms, developments and expectations to make our students market ready.

How is the teaching style of your college unique and different from others?

"We follow the practical learning approach and use case studies to teach our students"

As far as I have observed the outside world, both market and economy are becoming more dynamic day by day and the market is becoming cut-throat competitive also. Hence, we follow some of the best teaching practices and methodologies including case studies-based teaching, team based and experiential learning. In addition to this, we regularly evaluate students' academic performance and progress to accordingly modify our techniques and also organize guest lectures, workshops, study trips/ GIP, simulation games, situation handling role plays from time to time. Last but not the least, Field Projects and Assignments are assigned too to students on a regular basis and they are asked to give presentations and hands-on learning methods are used as and when required.

Which extracurricular activities are organized in your college to enhance the skills of students?

"Debates, quiz competitions and sports events are regularly conducted by us"

Our college understands the fact that co-curricular activities are very important for students complete development, hence we regularly organiz Intercollege competitions, sports meet and championships, quiz competitions, debates, volunteering and social service related activities along with Entrepreneurship events with the support of our Academic and Professional Clubs, Student Councils and Incubation Center.

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Any valuable advice which you would like to give to the students for a prosperous career ahead?

"Stay focused, disciplined and honest towards your personal and professional goals"

I would like to advise my dear students and ambitious youths of our society to stay focused towards their studies, develop a strong knowledge base and keep themselves updated. Also, participate in all kinds of skill development activities, strengthen your communication and IT Skills, maintain healthy relationships with your peer groups and faculties and always have a healthy competitive spirit.