Although it seems to be a product not intended for executives, for us, Nova SBE Executive Education, a Post-graduation is a course with an applied and entrepreneurial character, where you learn how to do and decide, but which passes through the Scientific Council and has this stamp and academic guarantee. In other words, it brings together the best of both worlds: academic guarantee and content with a practical structure adapted to companies and decision-making.
I have some difficulty in knowing exactly what a career is today. Nevertheless, it will help to structure better people and professionals. More complete, richer, better able to be in the labor market, for themselves or others.
If you ask me if it helps to achieve goals, I need to know which goals. But if the goals are to learn - broadband - management and how to be at ease and decide on its main dimensions then I will say that it helps a lot. Note that this product covers the context areas - Economy - and then Strategy, Accounting and Finance, Operations, Leadership and People, Marketing and Internationalization. All important, critical areas in management. Still with the possibility of making a short specialization in one of them or letting broadband work, i.e., the general management to keep several options open.
[laughs] I'm not laughing at your question because I thought it was pointless. I'm just laughing because there are no ideal times. For some, it will be sooner, for others later. One thing is certain: not going back to university to study is a model that died.
Anyone who does not undergo training, and in particular at a top demanding university, who seriously prepares, evaluates and cares their trainees in a very particular way, is not measuring the consequences of what he said above as being a career.
The demands of the labor market today are huge and any training must take into account that management knowledge is essential. An engineer without management is incomplete. A lawyer too. Psychologist ditto. An architect, a healthcare professional, a graphic designer, a pharmacist ... well, think about a profession and think about it without management. Today it is almost unthinkable. Or even unthinkable. If more in the beginning, if more in the middle, if more in seniority, the important thing is to recognize that it is necessary. Without fears. Because training is an investment.
Well, as I just mentioned, it's an investment. And if it is an investment it is good that it pays itself and has a return. The benefits are in terms of knowledge of the language, the mastery of tools and skills that must be taken from the “decisional” point of view. Without management, it seems to me complex to decide based on a cost-benefit logic.
It depends on the person's profile. I would not say clearly that they are mutually exclusive. But if you are working, with demanding work, if you do not have 5 full weeks (available) in 5 months, if you prefer to remain autonomous and less demanding in terms of group work, if you want to continue to manage the schedule from one more personal way without having to go through the group work then the proposal will be PGA. Even for being after work.
CGG has many benefits, many of them, namely the ability to make a whole that includes a project from A to Z covering several aspects and knowledge of the company. Perhaps in a phase of greater maturity in professional terms, a CGG is justified and better applied. But you can make a PGA today and a CGG tomorrow. And you can do a PGA without any need to do a CGG because more specialized training will be sought. Both seek to cover management areas, all areas, in an absolutely professional and rigorous manner. Both are, at the moment, solid and safe products on the market. And valued. Only when I speak with candidates with you, on a case-by-case basis, say whether one or the other product is more appropriate. There are nuances that are difficult to explain in an interview and that I prefer to explain eye to eye. And discuss with the candidates I get. And as you know I usually speak to candidates who want to speak to me.
One thing is certain: at Nova SBE Executive Education we treat our students well and try to ensure that they are guided and that they can look to the future and smile at them. No fears, no hesitations, no gaps in management. No fears, no hesitations, no gaps in management. In PGA they will certainly achieve this.
Finally, I would say that having a program coordinator like Filipa Castanheira, one of the people I most admire and like in this school, is a privilege that I personally would not want to miss.
Anyway, and as the professor mentions, if you are considering taking a Postgraduate Degree in Management, come and talk to Professor José Crespo de Carvalho and find out which one is best suited to your profile!
This interview was made to Professor José Crespo de Carvalho, a specialist in Operations Management, Academic Coordinator of Nova SBE Executive Education and Professor in the referred program, Applied Management Postgraduate Program.