This is a premium Post Graduate Diploma Program for your brightest and the best Managers - people whom you see as your future Leadership material - whom you Want to retain, invest upon, develop and groom, from the middle to senior management cadre, to prepare them to be Global Business Ready General Managers^TM today and Global Business Ready Leaders tomorrow.

No matter whether they are based in India or anywhere else in the world, the managers of today - and increasingly in the days to come are to manage and perform in an environment that is Global. There are hardly any businesses today whose Value-Creation is without an international component or constituent. Hence to say that managers have to be Global in their perspectives is to state the obvious, especially for the middle and senior management.

The program aims to provide a blend of the fundamentals and the cutting-edge learning of Business Management, by having the best faculty from around the world and India teaching them in the contact sessions and guiding them seamlessly further during the trimesters that follow, through the Learning Management System, the e-learning platform that connects the participants with the faculty and the institute, to ensure more than adequate and indepth learning takes place. This approach is taken to effectively address the needs of a wide spectrum of participants - while all of them commonly are high potential leadership material having a varied academic back-ground, from Engineering to Commerce to Economics etc., while some already having formal management education as well.

The learning will get further reinforced with a unique year-long Country/ Industry Study that each participant will take on, which will culminate in a Report and Presentation at the end of the Program. This is apart from projects that they might do at their work-place as part of the various courses in the Program. They will further learn Chinese- Mandarin, and spend one week overseas during their final contact session in a country appropriate to the program. All of which would round them to be Global Business Ready, which is the raison d'etre of this program.

Prof. R. S. Veeravalli
Director , PGXPM
Great Lakes Institute Of Management