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

"Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day."

~ Sumantra Goshal

POPULAR PROGRAMMES

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Emotional Intelligence at Work

Emotions greatly impact our work life and career. Therefore, there is a need to understand exactly what it is and why it is so important. Today there is a great emphasis on the... Read More
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2020

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
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2020

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
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2020

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
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2020

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
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Digital Marketing Strategies

In the era of digital revolution, technology has opened new opportunities for marketing. In the present scenario, individualisation, digitalisati... 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...
Ms M Unnamalai

Saint-Gobain India P Limited, Coimbatore

"The contents of the programme on “Leadership Skills for Women Professionals” were very focused and delivered well. The main framework of the programme was to know about ourselves and how to focus and improve the areas in which we lack. The programme was clearly split into different topics Read More...
Mr N Sampathkumar

Roots Industries Limited, Coimbatore

"The Productive Time Management ideas in the workshop were outstanding. The examples and content delivered by Prof. Bala were excellent. It was a practical workshop - both informative and entertaining. The workshop has thrown lights on the importance of SMART goal management, effective time management techniques, RESULT oriented approach etc...Overall, an awesome experience! The training programme on Leadership & Team Building was a very effective learning experience Read More...

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