About GRGCAS

GRG Centre for Advanced Studies (GRGCAS) is a part of the GRG Group of Institutions in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. GRG Group of Institutions is a unit of the GRG Trust established in 1956 by Shri GR Govindarajulu and his wife, Smt Chandrakanthi Govindarajulu. Since 1956, the Trust has established centres of educational excellence including PSGR Krishnammal College for Women (1963) and GRG School of Management Studies (1993).

GRGCAS offers focused and specialised programmes in management for the benefit of working professionals – part time courses, part time diploma courses, certificate courses, and professional certificate courses. The programmes designed and delivered by GRGCAS are of short, medium, and long term duration on multiple formats and platforms – weekend/weekday; on campus and off campus, full-time and part-time, company specific, sector specific, domain specific.

GRGCAS also offers management development programmes in specifically identified disciplines in partnership with other premier institutions and industry.

GRGCAS draws appropriate faculty resources from both within the institute and outside, including from industry to ensure that our programmes offer the most current, contemporary and updated knowledge and skills based on best practices in management.

Governance and Management

"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

~ Warren Bennis

POPULAR PROGRAMMES

LSWP

Leadership Skills for Women Professionals

Women have made one big mistake as leaders - trying to lead like men and not owning their leadership abilities. The underlying issue is that they associate leadershi... Read More
UPDL

Understanding Personality Differences for Effective Leadership

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most widely used, researched and written about Personality Type Instrument over the past 75 years.... Read More
LSS

Lean Six Sigma: Green Belt Certification

Methodologies of Lean Six Sigma focus on reducing defects and eliminating waste in an organisation’s processes, which is the secret of success for many leading comp... Read More
ECBL

Emerging Challenges for Business Leaders

The world around us has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Changes in demography, information and communication technology, geo-political boundaries, and... Read More
BCS

Business Communication Skills

Effective professional communication in organisations goes beyond the normal, informal human communication. The changes in information and communication technology and relentles... Read More
PTM

Productive Time Management

Prioritization is the essential skill you need to make the very best use of your own efforts and those of your team. It's also a skill that you need... Read More
DMS

Digital Marketing

In the era of digital revolution, technology has opened new opportunities for marketing. In the present scenario, individualisation, digitalisation, and net... Read More

Client Stories

Mr P Chella Ramaswamy

Jothi Malleables, Tiruchirappalli

"People are the foundations of any organisation that needs to be nurtured from the root for it to be healthy. Training is one of the most important aspects of it. At GRGCAS they make it a point to train people with love and dedication. Our executives had consistently, without Read More...
Mr K Veerabathraswamy

Cameron India, Coimbatore

"We took the support of GRGCAS in one of our important workshop on framing Vision and Strategy which involved our CMI leadership team. We were happy to have Prof. Balasubramanian of GRGCAS conducting this day long workshop. He was involved in guiding us from beginning. Finer details Read More...
Ms Yamini Raju

CRI Pumps, Coimbatore

"It was a great training! Very well done and very useful information delivered in an excellent manner. I would highly recommend the Effective Business Communication Workshop to all. Participants are interested in improving their relationships and in growing their career Read More...
Mr C N Ashok

Autoprint Machinery Manufacturer P Limited, Coimbatore

"Employees are invaluable assets to an organization who require periodic input to remain contemporary and competitive in the dynamic work environment. Autoprint has a loyal and committed workforce, many of whom have been serving the company ranging from 5 to 20 years. We selected a Read More...

Get Up-skilled, Learn and Stay Relevant

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Communicating at Work

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Thoughts for the Future

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Skill Sets for Managerial Hierarchy

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Management Skills and Career Progress

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MANAGING EXPECTATIONS

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