Hear from keynote speaker Professor Richard Welford and a panel of experts from Wesfarmers, WA Sustainability Energy Assoc and Curtin University, discussing emerging trends and strategies for business sustainability.
Date: Wednesday 12 November 2008
Time: 5:30pm
Location: City of Perth Town Hall
The event is free, RSVP is essential. Please email: registrations@gsb.curtin.edu.au or phone (08) 9266 1037.
Choosing the right course can be a daunting task. There are many unique situations to take into consideration – employment needs, study preferences, lifestyle, prior study etc. The GSB hosts a series of information evenings to help you choose a course to suit your career and your professional development.
Check out the GSB premises, mix with Alumni and present students- and do me a favour, look for an MLM to talk, not only an MBA. Get them to explain to you the difference between the two courses to get a well-rounded perspective!
RSVP: 9266 3460 or enquiries@gsb.curtin.edu.au
Wednesday 25 June 2008 at GSB.
Thought of a great new idea, service or product? Time to become the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates? Check out the IP event and the opportunity to catch up with old, current and new friends at GSB.
Curtin University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) has won a national tender to manage the Australian Leadership Awards: Leadership Development Program (LDP), part of a prestigious scholarship program targeted at future leaders from the Asia-Pacific region.
Janet Sutherland, Curtin’s Leadership Development Program Manager said that this contract is a significant recognition of GSB’s innovation and excellence in leadership education in a global environment.
“We are the only university in the country to have an accredited Masters program in leadership and management and this contract recognises us as a leading provider of education internationally and particularly in the Asia-Pacific region,” Ms Sutherland said.
Read the whole article on the GSB website. Read more about the government initiative of the Leadership Development Program on this site.
Most MLM’lers resume or start their degree with the “Organisational Behaviour 550 unit“. According to the unit outline:
…through the analysis of local and international case studies and individual and group exercises, students gain knowledge of practical and theoretical approaches adopted by organisations to improve and enhance the quality of life in the workplace. The unit also focuses on building students’ skills in academic writing and research required at postgraduate level in business.
This last sentence is the lasting first impression I got when I had completed the unit- “the student skills in writing”. Or rather: the impression, that some students write (more) than others in group assignments.
Group assignments are a central part of the whole experience unless you do the unit online instead of face-to-face. You will quickly get accustomed to meetings and group dynamics, to people, who say that they contribute and then forget to deliver their part 10 hrs before you are responsible to hand in the assignment on the group’s behalf.
You will experience the whole palette of humanly possible disasters (“my boy was poisoned and threw up on my only hard copy”… “I am telling you a secret- I’m with the SAS and we had a mission on the weekend I could not reveal”.)
I kid you not, you will hear the most amazing stories why people could not deliver what they say they would. I don’t say they lie, but you got to take away one pearl of wisdom from this: make sure you have a backup PLAN B.
Organisational Behaviour 550 is one of the in-depth and rich experiences and the last thing you will need is a laggard amongst the lot of reading and presenting you will have to do. But remember, OB (as the unit is affectionately known) is all about HUMAN behaviour. Don’t forget that while you’re having fun with your group who will, in the best case scenario, really turn into a team.
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