Personal Development (PD): An essential component of the FPM & EFPM

“Optimizing Personal Development During Research”

Success as a researcher goes beyond academic knowledge. To reach your potential, you also need to develop your personal qualities and transferrable skills. A doctoral degree requires you to cultivate your creativity, and ability to engage the public, work in a team, and manage your time well. In addition, these skills will help you succeed in your career. Whether you intend to pursue academia or another career path, employers will have high expectations. They will want you to demonstrate knowledge and skills beyond an in-depth understanding of your field.

To facilitate a continuous evolution of management theory and practice, the Fellowship Programme in Management & Executive Fellowship Programme in Management at FIIB offer a rigorous academic and research platform in diverse management areas, designed for academicians, students, and professionals who have a passion for changing the world. This program offers excellent opportunities for personal development as well as helps cultivate additional skills beyond it. 

FIIB’s exclusive non-credit course on “Personal Development’ provides an opportunity for scholars to explore questions of identity, self-awareness, growth, and development throughout the program. The course enables scholars to navigate the many challenges and paradoxes they face during their doctoral journey concerning the development of their academic and research skills. Moreover, it fosters curiosity to discuss identity in the fields of practice and scholarship by asking how you can develop as a practitioner and scholar.

Why the Personal Development Course?

In general, business education consists of technical management courses and some soft skills development, such as communication and emotional intelligence. Changing or enhancing careers and the associated identities may often mean tolerating ambiguities or unlearning what has already been taught. Through this course of personal development, we aim to help our scholars think freely, act effectively and eventually function beyond boundaries. 

What are its benefits to students? 

Through the personal development module in FIIB’s FPM & EFPM programs, students are exposed to issues of navigating identity transitions through intra-level & inter-level dialogue. 

The PD module specifically aims to help you:

•  facilitate continuous development during and after the program. 
• develop an awareness of the knowledge of your development.
• reinvent yourselves towards more scholarly identities. 
• recognise the significance of any tensions experienced in developing professional knowledge, skills, and capabilities alongside existing practices. 
• contribute to the development of knowledge through reflective thought concerning theory & practice. 

To conclude, the objective of the ‘personal development’ component in FIIB’s doctoral programs is to help each student understand their frameworks, propensities, role-taking, and defenses that hold them in achieving their full potential and thus create a forward path for themselves to complete the journey.