Sponsored by BNU MBA Education Center, the MBA Business Promotion Lecture Series --“Winning Way in Workplace” Symposium observed a grand opening in Jingshi Hotel at 18:00pm today. The Symposium invited Zhen Cheng, the president of SUCCESS, as an honored guest. As an old fellow of MBA and an educator with long-term commitment in MBA industry, Mr. Zhen represented a lecture named MBA -- Winning Way in Workplace and shared his ten-year experiences, stories and suggestions in workplace. Students listened to him carefully and reacted actively. Du Jing, the director assistant and marketing director of BNU MBA Education Center, Zhang Jingbo, the director of MBAedu and 2015 MBA students attended the Symposium. Li Jingya, the career development director of MBA Education Center, hosted the Symposium.
Pic 1: Teacher Li hosting the Symposium
First of all, Du Jing, the director assistant and marketing director of BNU MBA Education Center, delivered the opening remarks.She extended her warm welcome to Mr. Zhen and said that though many attendees are middle managers, they will definitely get promotions in the future. The Symposium is a great opportunity for learning and improvement, hoping it could be helpful for your career development. In the end, She also made a detailed introduction about the background of Mr. Zhen to students.
Then, the Symposium kicked off in warm applause. Mr. Zhen used “Planning and Accumulation” as the title and started his speech with reflection of MBA study. He asked the attendees to examine themselves with the following questions: What’s your plan for the two-to-three-yearMBA study? What will you get from MBA study? What have left for us after graduation? Why is it like this?
Pic 2: Du Jing making an introduction onstage
These questions threw by Mr. Zhen left the attendees in deep thinking. Mr. Zhen said that over 80% of MBA students were not satisfied with their gains after graduation. Because they thought that the study schedule of MBA was too tight, the lectures and communication opportunities, though abundant enough, are not insightful enough, and teachers are not like as considerable as nannies any more. What you can get from a teacher actually depends on your learning ability. MBA is a precious resources repository, whether you can make a good use of it or not is all up to you. Your choice is much more important than your effort. In this process, a correct method is crucial and accumulation is also of great significance.
Pic 3: Zhen Cheng, the president of SUCCESS
How could we maximize the value of MBA education? Mr. Zhen adopted a physical equation, Vt=VO+a*t, to vividly express to students that: before studying MBA, everything is just like“VO”, which can never change even with “t”(time), the only thing that can be changed is the “a”(acceleration), which is also what we can do for now. Therefore, We should try our best to achieve a good career planning and life goals.
Pic 4: The Symposium
Mr. Zhen said that we might have many purposes for studying MBA, for example, taking diploma, learning knowledge, making friends, expanding horizon, enhancing confidence, career transition or promotion, but all in all, we study MBA to gain wonderful life in the future. In order realize these purposes, we should cultivate 7 good habits that widely shared by successful men, which are: passion, focus, execution, study, reflection, gratitude, and self-discipline.
Then, Mr. Zhen elaborated the way of planning MBA study. According to him, learning can be divided into three levels, which are learning knowledge, learning methods and tools to solve problems, and learning concept. As for learning knowledge, we should accumulate as much knowledge as possible. We can go to other schools to listen to interesting lectures, but it is totally pointless listening to lecture for its own sake. Preliminary learning is very important. It is necessary to prepare several in-depth, challenging questions in advance, take notes and keep in touch with the lecturer. Good accumulation can help us form our core competitiveness, including English oral test, GMAT, and certification.
Pic 5: Students raising questions
Mr. Zhen also offered students some practical tips: remembering people’s name is a kind of capability, making others remember you is a kind of technique, you can form your name into a story; you should learn to make friends on dinner table and try to interact with different people in different occasions; present in return is very important and it need to be special and sincere; you should try to be the monitor or director of other organizations so that you can have a reason to return to school constantly after graduation; and you should participate in more competitions and games.
The Symposium lasted for over two hours. The wonderful speech delivered by Mr. Zhen received unanimous praise from teachers and students of BNU MBA and the Symposium ended successfully in thunderous applause.
Pic 6: Group photo
