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 EMAS-SSBM Varsities Vectoring towards real & tangible empowerment of their graduates: 

Firstly, I must admit that I have only recently learnt about vectorness as part of my strategic management studies leadership module, which  amongst others touches on strategic thinking and creating competencies that a modern leader should have. 

I learnt about a vector-leader and a points leader. And without going into details, vectorness if I may roughly explain it has to do with moving forward - in terms of goal setting -progress and subsequently achieving success. The vector-leader has inner strength and is most of the time enthusiastic and happy based on the process of moving forward - compared to the points leader who mainly ends up being torn between factors such as dependancy on other persons to achieve his or her set goals and during that such goals may take. The vector-leader is trusted by colleagues as a strong leader - and colleagues usually trust that leader to chart the vision - and executive it as the top level.

I am sure you can read more about these two types of leadership tags mainly the one of vectorness of process leadership  it as it is really the way to for for modern captains of industry. 

Thanks to the EMAS (Eurasian Management and Administration School and Swiss School of Business and Management, SSBM for the opportunity they granted me to be part of their virtual campus family (EMAS-SSBM Community).

Now, back to the topic. In many countries, the trend has been that the varsities produce or qualify hundreds if not thousands of graduates in different disciplines year in and year out. These graduates are usually equipped with relevant skills with some of them being researchers & inventors whose novel knowledge my contribute to injecting much needed strength in some economies even just at grassroots level where " bread and butter issues" are the talk of the nation daily.

Once they are qualified, graduates most of the time especially in struggling economies with high unemployment rates grapple & jostle to enter the job market even though they may have graduated from reknown or academically and internationally high ranked varsities, at times with cum laude.

The question that has never come to mind however  (during my 30-years of my professional career) is, do these institutions that produce these highly qualified graduates also consider absorbing  some of them into their structures?

 I believe, at times, such varsities also have a need to fill some vacancies in some faculties - but do these varsities take in their own products?

Yes, I am aware of opportunities like tutoring, moderating, guest lecturing or assisting personnel or so that sometime may be offered to new graduate for short periods only. But I am talking about proper recruiting as the job market would do based on the competencies obtained from the same institution.

It is my believe that if the varsity offers high quality and bench-marked education - it will never doubt getting its own graduates on board - to inject some new way of thinking among students and subsequently nations as part of modern teaching at academic level.

This week, as I surfed through EMAS' social media platforms as a way to acquiant myself with some of the varsity's Face book page, Linked, Youtube and related platforms, boom, I came across a picture of former EMAS students, who have now graduated - called back to the varsity to come plough back into their institution and subsequently the world as the varsity has students of different nationalities from across the globe including this author. 

These graduates do not only teach at these varsities but offer professional knowledge to businesses - as consultants as the varsities work with well known international companies which I many not mention here now because of the usual client or partnership details that may only be used for the purpose these are intended.

Similarly, the partner varsity, the SSBM also seemed to have been using the same method as one of the Professors who was teaching one of the modules I attended this week - also obtained his doctorate at the same institution, just some months back. Yes, some of these graduates may have been experts already through their own careers and only came to put "a cherry on the cake"  as part of their professional career growth by obtaining doctorate degrees or MBAs.

But, what struck me is the fact that the EMAS Varsity and SSBM are vectoring towards real empowerment of their graduates by taking them on board to share their new knowledge they obtained throughout their studies. And with the latest technology, some of these students are lecturing virtually - from their comfort of their countries - since we are in a "Global  Virtual -Varsity-Village".

This vectorness or progressiveness of these two varsities in terms of leadership may be a norm among some varsities, but to some of us, it is a trend worth emulating - because, it is a sign of varsities showing confidence in their own products. Vectorness as you may know centres around goal setting and achieving success - by moving in a particular diretion - in this case  -graduates  move towards their career mastery - the last stage of leadership which I also came to know recently as part of the same leadership module.

 Leadership has four stages, take-off, which is mainly the first stages of one's career growth - full of energy, pretty and supported by mainly senior staff to growth through the ranks, then crises, which is a stage after one has climbed the lader and later feel a bit stagnant and with almost no support from any one. During that time, managers feel the pressure on them and most of the time have lost some energy and may feel that colleagues are demanding more from that managers and that it takes so much efforts for that particular manager to deliver. And to rescue oneself from this stage, the particular manager has to even taken tough decisions to for instance pay for further studies to acquire new knowledge and not rely on the work place or any other good samaritan to pay for his or her studies/

 Only few managers manage to pull themselfs out of this quagmire if I may call it that way - and move to the next stage of rebirth - when the manager decides to do soul searching and take drastic steps to chuck out any useless behaviour and time or resourcew wasting from one's day to day leadership action. That's one a managers has to weigh each decision before it is taken - its cost benefit analysis and all. The last stage is then that of mastery as we learnt if from the leadership module basically meaning, the particular leader makes the new or modern way of leadership inherent or part of his or her day to day decision-making processes. 

Now can you image the benefits of varsities' vectorness towards empowering their graduates in terms of having confidence in their output based on the competencies they acquired during studies.

 If both the public and private businesses do the same, there will be great vectorness among the leaders in general in various countries in general. In other words, there are businesses that for instance sponsor students to go study - based on their companies' areas of interest and potential future professional needs.

 If such companies can also absorb some of the graduates once they are done with their studies, the issue of jostling for the job market may be eased in a way, not only in a particular country but around the world.

The question of relying or expecting the government to provide jobs to all graduates may also be slowly but surely be tackled head-on through this vectorness leadership.

I have also noticed on EMAS varsity's social media pages, that in its alumni section, it has a job's secion, meaning, its graduates and former students can also see what the varsity is offering - to them. There are also network plaftorms where by current and former students work together on potential business opportuntiies based on the acquired knowledge from EMAS. 

Students are asked to send short videos to briefly talk about themselves and their business - and such a video clip is uploaded on the varsities various social media platforms with the aim to net work and for students and graduates to team up for potential business joint ventures. Again, this to me is a sign of confidence in the quality of educatoin the varsity transferred to the graduates - and that they can in turn impart such knowledge to others at diffeent levels including among the varsity community. This is really unique, may be only to me -and that is why I am sharing such knowlege as sharing is caring.

Once again, the EMAS-SSBM vectorness leadershi of empowering their varsity graduates is really inspiring & can serve as model for the " Global Virtua-Varsity -Village"  (the Academic World), going forward.

Be Innovative, Be Connected, Network from the comfort of your home, be EMAS, be a Vector-Leader!

This post is aimed at inspiring various varsitities and general leadership to continue with critical thinking and come up with solutions to problems facing various countries, such as graduates who at times end up jostling for jobs or government-dependent, or leaders who may find themselves in the crises stages and may not know how to come out of that deep hole or just showing confidence in own products. The author of this post likes to empower others via information sharing as access to knowledge is critical.

 Hope amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, a plea by an EMAS-SSBM student

The Global or Earthly COVID-19 Pandemic has infected & affected every family on this planet.

You may not have contracted the virus, But your family member, a friend, an acquaintance,  a colleague, fellow student,  a neighbour or just as a humanbeing may have been infected or affected in one way or another.

Families have lost loved ones.

Work Place colleagues have lost their own business family members, not to mention their own nuclear or extended family members. I just lost my colleague at work. And my some of my colleagues lost a mother or father, almost the same time. Many of them tested positive and had to self-isolated. I am also a COVID-19 survivor who contracted it beween August and September 2020. This post is also written based on first hand experience.

But, despite all this untold experience for some in modern history, a voice at the back of ones' mind reminds a human kind to keep the Faith & cling onto Hope. This is the same message I would like to share, not only with fellow EMAS-SSBM community, but the rest of the globe.

The question is , what is hope?

What inspires hope?

Where does hope come from?

How long does hope stay in a person?

And why is hope critical especial now in the era of COVID-19 Pandemic?

In my own lay-experience, I will say hope is the strong desire not give up.

It's that determination to succeed in the individual and collective fight against COVID-19.

It's that same drive drive & Zeal  EMAS-SSBM students like me employ to succeed in their studies. 

It's that will-power to want to stand up after you have fallen, like a baby learning to walk, step by step.

The strong Will to expect that something better may come your way, & that change may soon show up.

It's the believe that nothing is permanent - apart from change itself.

It's a conviction that at times cannot be simply explained.

It's that intuition to vividly see what may seem impossible until it's done.

The premonition that at times make the next person wonder what the other is talking about.

It's the love to know that indeed tomorrow brings another way of being and living.

It's a strong feeling to know that the dawn break - may shed some beautiful sun-rays & great opportunities - for a possible new life and new way of living, the new normal COVID-19 brought.

It's the "Vuma & the Oomph" to unknowingly go against all odds - but still make it to the other side.

It's the Faith - & knowing that indeed even if COVID-19 may hurt now, one day, it will form part of our history books content & tales of  heritage, where we come from and how we have overcome it.

Therefore, let's keep the Faith & wrap ourselves into the hope. In Afrikaans, one of the languages spoken in Namibia (also close to Dutsch), they say, " Vasbyt, min dae!" as in hang in there - that hardship or painn too shall come to pass.

As an EMAS-SSBM student, I have learnt to embrace global networking - not only to source for potential business and related partnership through fellow students & methodologists support but also to inspire one another and subsequently endure the hardship and impact imposed by COVID-19 on families.

Be an EMAS-SSBM family - Be the hope you want to see to perserve amidst covid-19 - as tomorrow holds a brand new dawn which may just come with complete healing - which will will one day kick out COVID-19 out of this planet.

This post is meant to inspire nations - especially families currently facing COVID-19 aftermath to remain strong & cultivate world peace among them. - All human kind lives in a Pandemic Global Village at the moment - and all world citizens need to hold hands - and move in unison it tackling the pandemic. The views expressed are shared from personal point of view as a member of the community, family person and a citizen of the world as well as an EMAS-SSMB student, aimed to uplift the next person who may just need to read these types of content.