A Business School can equip you with skills that form an excellent foundation for new careers.

The art of managing and juggling life can be learnt pretty efficiently in a business school. Certainly
a smart personality with soft skills is an attractive feature to sweep anyone off your feet. Presenting
a list of the ten most important skills that one can learn being in business school.
1. TIME MANAGEMENT

We all agree to the fact that, Time Management is the key to build a stronger foundation for
success. I have always been incredibly fascinated about how the most successful people manage
their time! All of us in one or the other stage of life have faced difficulty to manage our time as
per requirements. We have always known time management as to set priorities, manage to meet
deadlines, set and achieve goals, effectively organize daily actions, and make decisions faster.
A business school would teach you time management from a different perspective. They dont
believe in managing time or prioritizing time but they would make you learn to multiply time.
Most successful entrepreneurs today are multipliers. They have figured out ways to actually create
more time while everyone else is still living with the fallacy that time is finite. How in the world
do you multiply time? Simple. You multiply your time by giving yourself the emotional permission

to spend time on things today that create more time tomorrow. Instead of asking the question: what
are the most important things I have to do today? You would ask: what are the things I could do
today that would free up more time tomorrow? From the time management perspective, our life
is a sequence of big and small choices and decisions. It is those choices that we really manage, not
the flow of time.
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." By-Michael Altshuler
2. QUICK RESPONSIVENESS

In todays global race every company expects its workforce to have rigor and responsiveness in
skills. It is not just enough to be a problem solver! The real challenge is how quickly and effectively
the errors are diagnosed and rectified. And thus the main idiosyncrasy of a management person is
quick responsiveness. Leading organizations stress on these skills in their employees, as they want
to eliminate non-value added waste time while simultaneously increasing the competitiveness by
serving consumers better and faster. Decision making is the most basic building block of our life,
career, and community. The faster and more strategically we stack these blocks, the faster and
more efficaciously we achieve positive change.
Business schools follow a practical way of learning using case-studies and assignments that would
take you to the real world problems. Solving these assignments and tasks would train you to

provide faster inputs and respond to the erroneous details. This practical way of learning would
train your mind in such a way that you would think rationally about how your options would align
the ultimate objective.
3. CONCISE PRESENTATION SKILLS

Presentations and public speaking skills are very useful in many aspects of work and life.
Presenting information clearly and effectively is a key skill to get your message or opinion across.
Today, presentation skills are required in almost every field. I have seen many people feel terrified
when asked to make their first public talk.
A Business school would train you to be professional in terms of communication and
showmanship. Sessions at a business school are interactive and would help to develop confidence
and capability to give good presentations. Standing up in front of audience and speaking well, are
also some of the extremely helpful competencies, which can be improved at business schools. The
art of a good presentation is that it has to be to the point, concise, precise and care must be taken
that it is not stretched beyond a limit. Digressing from the original topic is what must be avoided
as far as possible. One should be clear in his speech. A slurred/ stammering speech is indicative of

the fact that one is not prepared and is confused with respect to his content. Improving these soft
skills can be best done in a business school.
4. IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT

Impression management is a goal-directed conscious or subconscious process in which the person

attempts to influence the perception of their image. The minute you want to make a certain
impression, you have to try and promote yourself according to the objective you want to achieve
and accomplish. It all comes down to how you want to present yourself (self-presentation). The
manner you present yourself may either cause harm or benefit. For the reason that, the way you
present yourself is the way people would look at you. If you come up as negative to someone then
thats how theyll perceive you or if you come up positive, then theyll see you as a positive person.
It all depends on the impression you leave and your self-presentation of yourself. Remember: First
impression, lasts long. Yes! This kind of holds true.
A business school will enlighten the fashion freak in you. It is not merely about designer clothing
and overpriced suits but it will guide you about how you look the best in. Certainly you have to
judge yourself and have dress rehearsals, if you are little low in confidence. But seeing yourself
and analyzing as to how you will look best will result to improve your confidence. The career

management sessions at a business school will help you in this. A business school is the place
where you will learn how to carry yourself in the best way. Observe, Learn and Present yourself.
5. COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Communication is an art, which is believed as one of the key objectives at any business school. If
we take a survey, majority will agree that communication skills are the most integral part in the
business world. It is almost impossible to teach how to communicate albeit there are courses and
workshop to overall groom you to handle the corporate world. We project ourselves by the way
we talk. Body language is a key component as far as communicating is concerned. Proper posture,
gesture, movements and eye contact are some of the important skills every individual has to learn
to succeed in the business environment. In the business world, especially marketing and sales
components rely heavily on communication skills. For sales people, communication techniques
are like bread and butter. Convincing a client to consider any product/software is the hallmark of
an adroit negotiator. Everything ultimately boils down to how you present yourself. A business
school is the ultimate place to practice and master these communication techniques. You may be

required to address a panel during interviews or give a presentation about your work, you stand
out courtesy your soft skills. Business schools mould you in such a fashion.
6. TEAM WORK

In a fast paced business environment, team work is often a crucial part. Companies today
increasingly employ teaming and gathering experts in temporary groups to solve problems. More
and more people in nearly every industry now work on teams that differ in duration and have
continuous shifting membership. Teaming presents technical and interpersonal challenges. Every
individual in a team is expected to get up and speed quickly on new topics. In these circumstances
everyone has to learn how to work with others from different functions, divisions, and cultures.
Individuals who learn to team well acquire knowledge, skills, and are found good in networking.
Business school classes have a lot of group projects, presentations and case studies. Almost every
business school divides students into study groups and then students work within these 5-6 member
groups. A business school would also provide opportunities to work as part of clubs, organizing
events, fests and more. As a result, you can pick up throughout the coursework is how to work
well with others. Teaming at a business school would help to execute and learn at the same time.

7. NETWORKING

Networking is a skill that does not come naturally to everyone. Some people are simply too shy;
others consider networking pretentious, phony, or even manipulative. However there is no doubt
that networking has huge benefits. No matter how you look at it, your success in business
environment hinge on your ability to successfully network. Your peers may be competing with
you for promotion, but they are also critical to your success. The higher you go in your career the
more your success will depend on your ability to work across functional lines. That means you
need to establish good working relationships with your peers.
Establishing a perfect balance with peers, while networking is what a business school can teach
you in a very proper way. Meeting/interacting with other students at school is one of the many
reasons why people attend business school. Most of the business schools have a strong teamwork
atmosphere that encourages interaction among students inside and outside of class. It is also
essential that you network with other people currently active in industry while you are in business

school. Such people may include alumni, faculty, guest speakers, or corporate recruiters. These
are the ones who can help you make additional connections that will be important to your career.
They may also be able to help you get a job after graduation.
8. WORK LIFE BALANCE

Trying to juggle business, work, family, friends, achievement, personal downtime, etc. can
definitely take its toll and make us feel pulled in all sorts of directions. It does not have to be this
way. The very concept of attaining balance is a big part of the problem. The idea of balance means
that all of our activities must get equivalent time and attention to be perfect. However, in todays
fast moving highly materialistic world, it rather becomes a big task to manage home and work. If
you are guided with regards to the art of balancing, you are bound to cause less problems for
yourself.
A business school prepares you to handle your life in a better way. It is like a final rehearsal to
your tiring future life. If striking a proper balance is grasped and learnt at this stage, it becomes

rather easy to tackle life ahead. We are taught this right from school, but in this phase, it can be
learnt best. Fortunately, a professional life will practically make you sound.
9. ANALYTICAL MINDSET

Analytical skillset is a critical component of visual thinking that gives one the ability to solve
problems quickly and effectively. It involves a methodical step-by-step approach to thinking that
allows you to break down complex problems into single and manageable components. A good
businessman, manager, leader have one thing is common which is an analytical mindset. An
analytical mindset may help you figure out multiple possibilities and work on different angles to a
problem.
Learning in a business school is all about expanding your analytical horizons. The numerous tasks
you need to undertake always require a certain propensity towards analysis. It is a niche of a
leader/businessman to analytically view any task at hand and put forth multiple cases with regards
to the problem. A business school will sharpen your analytical prowess to a very professional level.
As in a business oriented environment, you will always be needed to think in that fashion.

10. SETTING PRIORITIES

Business is all about setting priorities and organizing work load. Priorities can often be tricky to
battle at the workplace. While you may sit down at night and write down the goals you hope to
achieve at work tomorrow, the order in which you complete them and devote the most attention
to, each one sheds light on how well you can prioritize. You know that sinking feeling you have
when there's too much on your plate? When you try to tackle your tasks by priority, but it feels
like everything's important? It's a problem that everyone faces at some point or another, and while
it's difficult to skillfully juggle multiple priorities and competing responsibilities, it's not
impossible. Well, this art is based on judgment. Some tasks require more attention and time
devotion. Some require less. Of all the things you learn in a business school, perhaps this is the
most important. Because unless you master the knack of setting priorities, it is not possible to
implement the other assets. A business school kind of makes you set your goals so that your task
is achieved in the most efficacious way.