ASBM-Bhubaneswar conducts Workshop for Forest Officers

Bhubaneswar, Jan 1: Asian School of Business Management, Bhubaneswar conducted Training Programme for freshly recruited managers of Odisha Forest Development Corporation (OFDC) from 14 December to 30 December 2015 at ASBM Campus. The objective of the training programme was to develop the managerial Skills of the employees.  The Training Programme was inaugurated by Dr. Ajay Kumar Mahapatra, IFS, Managing Director, OFDC by lighting the “Lamp of Wisdom”. He said that the newly inducted managers should strive hard to update themselves professionally and the training programme would help them do that.

Shri Vivek Pattanayak, IAS (Retd) encouraged all the participants by providing vivid description of today’s scenario relating to forest and environment.

Prof. (Dr.) Biswajeet Pattanayak, Director ASBM, said that management is a subject required in all sphere of life and congratulated the managers to be part of management training at ASBM. During the training, they were trained with important managerial skills including basics of HR, Financial Management, Accounting, Marketing, Business Communication, Self awareness & Interpersonal Skills, Cost Concepts, Effective Decision Making, Managerial Function, Drafting, Accounting Package – Tally 9.2 ERP ,Service Rules, Team Building & Leadership, Professional Etiquettes etc  by an array of experts and richly experienced team of ASBM. Noteworthy thing is that the activities and tasks in the training module dealt with forestry as the central theme.

Apart from the managerial training sessions, the trainees were also given Physical Exercise Training every morning under the supervision of Air Commodore G.K Patnaik, VSM (Retd.) of the institute and the Gym trainer.

In the valedictory Programme the distribution of certificate was made by Prof. Kalyan S Ray, Dean ASBM, on their successful completion of training. The whole training programme, coordinated by Prof. Arnab Chakravaerty.