Executive Development

Coordinator’s Message

Dr Samantha Rathnayake

B.B.Mgt. (HRM) Spl. (Kelaniya), MBA (PIM-SJP), PhD (IUKL-Malaysia),
CPM (Asia), PGDip Mktg (SL), NDHRM (CIPM)
Strategic Human Resource Development, Organizational Behaviour, General Management

Experience in Management Applications at the PIM Executive Development Programmes: Multiple Options for Corporates

“Name Your EDP – We have a Problem Solving Training Approach.”

“The Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) has been at the forefront in breeding thought leaders with character and competence. The Institute’s Executive Development Programmes (EDPs) grown and developed mainly during the last decade are highly calibrated, unmatched in content and conduct. They are specifically tailor-made to cater to current industry requirements. They provide the desired vital link in reaching the private/public community. These strengthen one of the PIM’s critical pillars of the edifice of excellence, namely, partnerships. EDP aims to help improve organizational management application, systems, and practices by providing relevant training and development to the executives of different sectors operating at different levels in the corporate hierarchy. It offers through both physical as well as virtual mode.

PIM produces accountable results in the area of the learning-goal-directed approach. There is an increasing demand for executing and consolidating the pragmatic EDPs established by the PIM for partnering organizations. It shows that training-related success is positively generating results that are genuinely value-creating investments for companies. A continuous learning engagement platform in EDPs reflected a positive relationship with learning effectiveness by exposing participants to company-specific challenges, knowledge, and diverse job assignments/projects. Learning and development should, for sure, be objective-focused and result-oriented. Thus, organisations must ensure that a learning road map is made available to participants in the acquisition and application of competencies to make the EDP provided to employees accountable. Therefore, the new initiative and the ongoing EDPs fortify the fact that the PIM has gone the extra mile through its experiential learning and managerial acumen to produce accountable results in the area of learning-goal-directed-approach.”