Workshops at Lovely Professional University

Lovely Professional University has always been ahead in imparting knowledge and skill to students and teachers. 

                            

Lovely Professional University is one of the world's largest universities. In achieving this milestone, training and development played a crucial role. Be it the training and development of its students through various seminars, workshops, etc. or Faculty Development Programs for the teachers and other non-teaching staff, Lovely Professional University has always been ahead in imparting knowledge and skill to students and teachers. 

Following are a few Faculty Development Programs conducted by the University in the last few months:

1. Guru Dakshata (Faculty Induction Program): The focus of this program was to give hands-on practice to the faculty on various e-learning platforms, the criticality of developing e-content for e-learning, and to draw their attention towards qualitative research, statistical analysis and life skills.

2. National Workshop On Research Methodology And Data Analysis Using 'SPSS': This workshop was conducted for students, faculty members from LPU as well as from various other institutions and research scholars. The workshop was a great success owing to the high demand for learning SPSS by the research scholars.

3. Refresher Course On Research Methodology and Data Analysis: The main focus was on various types of technologies and methods to be used for various types of research and various ways to analyse the data. It is basically for experienced people who have some idea about research.

4. FDP On High Impact Teaching Skills By Dale Carnegie And Associates, Inc: In this faculty development program, it was discussed to make the teaching effective by using various advanced techniques and real-life examples. 

5. MISO-A Japanese Vegetarian Cooking Workshop: This workshop proved to be a boon for those who were interested in Japanese cuisine.

6. National Case Writing Workshop: Though various institutions conduct workshops, LPU is famous for doing it in a different way. The resource person in this workshop is generally someone famous. Most of the time real-life company cases are discussed in this type of case writing workshop. It can also be taken as an effective brainstorming session.

7. Short Term Course On Research Methodology: It is as same as what I have shared in point number three above the only difference is that this particular workshop is for a very duration of 3 days. Here both freshers and experienced candidates can participate.

8. Workshop for making the teaching interactive, engaging, and innovative for students.

9. Workshop On Digital Marketing: LPU has very experienced and talented faculty in the area of digital marketing. The resource persons available at LPU are experts in various domains of digital marketing. A large number of students not only from LPU but from outside attended this workshop. As a result, some of them started their youtube channels and they are running them successfully. 

10. Workshop On Gamification: Simulation games hahaveeen an important part of students’ class assignments. So, faculty should be well versed with the advanced technology and software to be used for simulation games. For the same purpose, the university has taken help from freelancers who have expertise in this field. These freelancers have taught the faculty members and accordingly faculty members have shared the same knowledge with the students. 

11. Workshop on Advanced Research Methodology: This particular workshop was conducted for those who are comfortable with the basics of research methodology and seek some advanced knowledge in the research area.

12. Workshop on Mental Health: This was the workshop conducted to know the status of mental health of a particular school. It was also helpful in counselling people to live a happy and satisfying life. 

Workshops at Lovely Professional University are not only restricted to students and teachers. LPU also maintains a Corporate Pathshala to ensure the effective growth and development of businesses and professionals. Corporate Patshala aims at providing customised solutions to its clients.

Following is the list of some of the clients of Corporate Pathshala of LPU:

1. UCO bank
2. Indian Oil Corporation
3. Divine Welness centre, Jalandhar
4. F C Sondhi and Co. Jalandhar
5. Midland Microfin Ltd.
6. IDBI Bank
7. Redington India Ltd.

About The Author

Amit Kumar Sharma is an Assistant Professor at Lovely Professional University. With ten years of experience in teaching organisational behaviour and HRM, he has also conducted 13 faculty development programs at the school level and two management development programs at the industry level.

Note: The views expressed in this article are solely the author’s own and do not reflect/represent those of Shiksha.