E/MBA Scholarships Slovenia Finals

This year, the international jury had a tough task in selecting the top candidates in Slovenia. After careful evaluation of performance of top-performing candidates during the selection finals and all other criteria, the 6 persons who received MBA scholarships are: Denis Marič, Ivan Vučetić, Jelena Agafonova, Marko Banović, Marko Rožman, Nina Mazgan and the 6 candidates who received EMBA scholarships are: Blaž Jarc, Dražen Vranješ, Marko Ninčević, Matic Jurkošek, Matic Vošnjak, Zef Vučaj. All the selected scholarship winners and other Cotrugli Alumni were kindly invited to attend the Cotrugli Business Breakfast on Friday at 08. am in hotel Lev. Along a delicious breakfast catering and tasty fresh coffee, scholarship winners were presented to wider public and were accompanied by best wishes and recommendations of the Cotrugli Alumni and Tomaž Dimnik, co-owner of MojeDelo.com and partner of the scholarship process. After the first part of the breakfast, Daniela Bervar (Country manager for Slovenia) announced the guest speaker - journalist and media expert Denis Oštir, who held an interesting lecture entitled ˝What do we expect of you, managers˝, featuring relations between journalists and management.

Yoga for managers & Indian food night

On Wednesday March 16th Cotrugli Business School alumni went for a special experience: Yoga for managers at yoga studio Sadhana! Learning how to relax, breathe and pump new energy were only a couple of practices one can easily and continuously use in office or at home every day. After a vivid dance performance from two professional dancers from dance studio Lotus wearing Indian costumes, a dozen of managers experienced a yoga class with special sound therapy.

In order for all senses to be satisfied at the end of the lesson, hosts Blaž Jarc and professional yoga teacher Sneža invited all participants for a special Indian finger food with delicious spices, pastries and sweets. A little bit tired, but totally relaxed participants went home with some great impressions and simple techniques for relaxing at their offices.

COTRUGLI Business Breakfast in Ljubljana with honorable guest speaker Nicolas Kfuri, PhD

On Thursday, 27th of January 2011 at Hotel Lev, Ljubljana, Cotrugli proudly hosted Nicolas Kfuri, experienced professor in private as well as public universities in executive, graduate and e-Learning programs worldwide, including COTRUGLI Executive MBA program, PURDUE University – GISMA Business School in Germany, University of Barcelona, IESDE in Mexico etc.

At the Cotrugli Business breakfast, Mr. Kfuri covered an interesting and very up-to-date topic Global Strategic and Consumer Trends from 2011 onward. In recent times the world economy faced great change. Throughout the interesting presentation the participants found out the global CEO’s perspectives and recommendations on how to face the future and start setting the proper strategic directions and challenges in covering the upcoming consumer trend orientations. The lecture was open to 30 invited guests only, including Slovenian Cotrugli Executive MBA Alumni and local business leaders.

FABULOUS GRADUATION PARTY FOR SLOVENIAN ALUMNI

Managers who sing, play and present? This, too, we have in our Slovenian Alumni.

Slovenian managers who were recently granted Cotrugli Executive MBA diplomas in Zagreb decided to celebrate the happy event a little bit differently. On Thursday, 11th of November in the festive ambient of restaurant Via Bona, they prepared a vivid music program, which was performed by themselves (sung, played and managed) in cooperation with famous Slovenian singer Regina and Frenk Nova. The event was spiced with a humorous presentation of the graduates, dress code, St. Martin's excellent finger food by Via Bona and with varied wine from Slovenian vineyards (wine shop PROVIN, Istenič, Mansus, Ščurek and Steyer). The highlight of the evening was a surprise in the form of special guest, singer Lucienne Lončina.

Special thanks for support: Via Bona restaurant, PROVIN - vinoteka vsebin in okusov, Istenič d.o.o., Ljubljana, Makovec, blagovna znamka Mansus, Ščurek, Steyer - Hiša dišečega traminca.
Photos: Grega Potokar

COTRUGLIS’ QUEST FOR INNOVATIVE MARKETING AND SALES IN LJUBLJANA

At the recent Cotrugli managers’ forum ˝ Quest for Innovative Marketing and Sales ˝ in Ljubljana, the participants were in a megalomaniac and often chaotic world of marketing and sales.

In the maze of changes, the mass of information, products, discounts and new opportunities, changing consumers increasingly demand new approaches in the field of sales and marketing. At the forum, participants learned about innovations and trends in marketing and sales, and through workshops and round table they assume many new practical implications and experience. Two interesting topics were covered: Hans Houmark, Smartim: How to catch your consumer when they are on the move and ignoring the mass messages and Dino Ivan Tot, Totalia: How do customers react to web discounts and where are the new opportunities for web sales – case 1nadan.si.

The practical workshops covered a Sales Management Case study trough which participants analyzed and brainstormed in small groups on an interactive Sales-case study and tried to get to best solutions to given problems (MBA working groups approach). Case study moderator was mag. Primož Hvala.
At the final round table, which wrapped up the whole event, Congestion, stagnation, and different consumer desires were discussed. Respected guests were: Matej Golob (IBM), Boštjan Perko (Pivovarna Laško), Zoran Trojar (Sonce.net), Borut Mavsar (Droga Kolinska).

The event was kindly supported by sponsors: Droga Kolinska and Avto Aktiv – Volvo center.

Mednarodno akreditirana poslovna šola COTRUGLI Business School (www.cotrugli.eu), v sodelovanju z medijskimi partnerji MojeDelo.com, Radio1 in Dnevnik, razpisuje:

6 MBA in 6 Executive MBA štipendij v vrednosti 105.000 EUR

Ponosno najavljamo že 5. tekmovanje za štipendije za programa Executive MBA in MBA na COTRUGLI Business School za leto 2010.

Projekt štipendiranja je del programa družbene odgovornosti COTRUGLI Business School. 105.000 EUR bomo v obliki dveh polnih in desetih polovičnih štipendij podelili posameznikom, ki imajo največji potencial, da prispevajo k kvaliteti menedžmenta v regiji.

Kar 12 slovenskih junior, middle in top menedžerjev bo prejelo 6 štipendij za COTRUGLI Executive MBA program in 6 štipendij za COTRUGLI MBA program.
K prijavi (najkasneje do 15. 11. 2010) preko spletnega obrazca, ki se nahaja na www.mojedelo.com/mba, vabimo vse proaktivne in ambiciozne kandidate z voditeljskim potencialom. Štipendijo bodo prejeli kandidati, ki bodo s svojim znanjem, razmišljanjem in sposobnostmi najbolj navdušili neodvisno komisijo.

Zahteve za prijavo v program štipendiranja za Executive MBA: diploma, dobro znanje angleščine, najmanj 3 leta relevantnih delovnih izkušenj, ter za prijavo v program štipendiranja za MBA: diploma, dobro znanje angleščine, in najmanj 1 leto relevantnih delovnih izkušenj.

Info in prijave preko spletnega obrazca na:

www.mojedelo.com/mba ali www.cotrugli.eu/scholarships.

Glavni medijski pokrovitelji: MojeDelo.com, Radio1, Dnevnik.

Projekt podpirajo: Združenje Manager, Tehnološki park Ljubljana, Poslovni Angeli Slovenije, Ljubljanski Univerzitetni Inkubator, CPM, Poslovni Utrip, DKD Ljubljana.

We definitely did get a taste of MBA!

There are many questions regarding MBA programs; how does it look like, will I benefit from it, will I be able to understand the content, language, do I have enough skills etc. You know what they say - you can not know what you buy unless you see it for yourself ... MBA is definitely an investment for life and the best thing to do in order to decide for it is to experience it!

COTRUGLI Experience MBA module Business Communication led by Marijo Bos, was held in Ljubljana - Tehnološki park on July 3rd & 4th, hosted by COTRUGLI Business School office in Slovenia (http://www.cotrugli.eu/). A group of interested participants joined to experience the atmosphere, the course work and the two day interactive agenda. Powered by Volvo (Avto aktiv d. o. o.), the participants had the opportunity to make test drives and even to win a Volvo over the weekend.

Every participant who successfully passed the test at the very end of the Experience MBA module, was granted a participation certificate.