Workshop on Effective Business Plan

Date: 24^th – 25^th November 2022

Time: 9 am – 5 PM

Participants: 45

Venue: AV Hall

Name of the resource person – Mr. Ashish Anand

Coordinators – Dr. Mahima Rai, Ms. Gunjan Rawat & Dr. Khushbu Bhardwaj

DAY 1

The training and Placement cell IIS University, Jaipur in association with the IISU E-cell Incubation centre had organized a 2 day workshop on “Effective Business Plan” held on 24^th and 25^th November 2022 for the students of the university. There were 45 students participated for the workshop. They were felicitated and warmly welcomed with the memento. The workshop was conducted by Makeintern in collaboration with IIM Calcutta, Mr. Asish Anand was invited as the guest speaker and trainer for the business plan competition.

Mr. Ashish Anand is recognized for his leadership skills he is the Senior Training Manager at Aakash Educational Services Limited and trainer at Karma Recycling Pvt. Limited and Communication Trainer at Stellar Information Technology. He has numerous professional experiences in Start-ups and top Indian MNCs like Bajaj General Insurance, ITC, Madison Media Infinity and Eveready Industries that has helped him to acquire essential skills of Personality Development. He has been instrumental in leading cross-functional teams of 200+ staff members, managing 30+projects ranging from INR 50k - INR 25 Cr budget.

The purpose of the workshop was to provide an opportunity to all the students to polish their attitude, aptitude and inculcate confidence in them.

The session begin with self-introduction and elevator pitch. He further discussed SWOT matrix and its importance for the individual and the organization. Students prepared their personal SWOT matrix, talked about their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, how to use their strengths to find place in the career and work on weaknesses to stay in the career. He also discussed how to answer basic interview questions. Mr. Ashish talked about the Business plan concepts and explained various modules using examples. In the second half of the day, the students were divided into 8 groups and each group was assigned a product as the case study and they were to plan entire concept around it, how they will make their product different and be able to sell it in the market as well. The students were excited and enthusiastic, the role play and case study taught students skills.

While playing the role we all were excited and enthusiastic. The role has taught the students how the time management, coordination and cooperation are important in daily lives as well as in the organisation. Every team discussed their b-plan with different products and learnt the strategies of making the plan with different ideas. Towards end of the session the students probed queries.

DAY 2

The day started with the same energy level of students about B plan modules. Firstly we discussed the overview of Day 1 as revision with all the participants. Sir covered the remaining training session with explaining the participants the modules and more about the B-plan with more and more examples to make it easy, fascinating and comprehensible. He not only imparted the training for B-plan also gave students the knowledge other than that related to interviews, startups, etc.

Students participated in role plays and eagerly grasped concepts and gained knowledge. After the completion of modules and the strategies that were made for the training they were again asked for the role play in which they had to present innovative business ideas to him and the faculty this gave students enough practice sessions, standing on the stage and performing. It was a two way communication role play as they were asking questions from students and taught them how they must answer.

At the end of the session, it was concluded with the brainstorming session and students presented gratitude to him by giving him the memento and thank you note by Dr. Khushbu Bhardwaj.