Enactus Sheridan participated in its first National Exposition at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre where the event welcomed 51 Colleges and Universities, 1,200 delegates, academic professionals and top Canadian CEO’s.
During the three-day event, post-secondary teams and student entrepreneurs competed for the prestigious national champion title showcasing their community development projects and business ventures to judging panels composed of top Canadian executives. Keynote speakers included Arlene Dickinson and Avik Dey.
The Enactus Sheridan presentation team included Bryan McLatchie, Neal Chauhan, Josh Goodwin, Veina Wang, Matthew Whitney and Humza Imran.
Enactus Sheridan received three awards at the Exposition: Enactus Rookie National Champion – To recognize the start-up team that best demonstrated excellence in empowering people in their community through their Enactus projects. First Runner Up Award in their Division, and Professor Vishal Badani won the John Dobson Award – To recognize the John Dobson Enactus Fellow who made an outstanding contribution in the past academic year as a mentor and coach to students involved in the Enactus team on their campus.
Enactus Sheridan would like to thank everyone who supported the team including Faculty of Business Dean, Bill Holmes, Associate Dean, Cindy Gillett, Professor Doug Greenwood, Student Engagement Manager, Crystal Bennett, Kerri Zanatta-Buehler, Sheridan Student Services, Professors Janet Young, Lorraine Cipparone, Ginger Grant and everyone else who came out to support the team. Watch a video assembled by Crystal Bennett on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQodWZuGJSs
Sheridan students who would like to join the team can learn more by visiting Enactus Sheridan website, visiting their Facebook site and, checking out their Twitter feed @enactussheridan
Faculty of Business Students of Sheridan’s Tourism and Travel program once again created, planned and presented their year end function as a culmination of their final semester Meetings and Event Planning course. This years’ event was entitled From Bollywood to Hollywood and the event was held at Oakville’s Hilton Garden Inn.
Each final semester Tourism and Travel class are required to create plan schedule the activity by members of the 4th semester Introduction to Meetings and Events class. The Event assignment is focused on experiential learning for the students who were divided into teams based on their interests: Décor, Food and Beverage, Media and Program. A leader was nominated for each team and then overseen by the Assistant Coach.
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“This is a great example of experiential learning and is just one component of the Tourism and Travel program. Graduates of our Program use the real-life, hands-on business training included in the program at Sheridan College to go into many areas of the Tourism and Travel Industry, including the exciting world of Meetings and Events Planning and Incentive Travel Planning,” said Donna Black, Coordinator, Sheridan Tourism and Travel program.
A delicious themed buffet was a main attraction for everyone, with the addition of Hollywood and Bollywood style movie posters and decor, authentic Bollywood dress and a movie theme for each table.
Six students from the Faculty of Business recently participated in the inaugural Business Interview Competition held in the Residence Conference Centre at the Davis campus. The Sheridan Career Centre sponsored competition required students to participate in a preliminary event where they filed an application, a resume review, attended a career workshop and participated in a video interview submission. These submissions were then reviewed by Employment Consultants in the Career Centre and the students received feedback on how to prepare for the April 3 event.
The Sheridan Career Centre promoted the event as a way to help students gain valuable interview skills and learn how to use Optimal Resume (an on-line resource for Sheridan students), to boost a student’s career capital and provide an opportunity to meet with employers and receive immediate feedback.
The competition was set-up in a speed networking format, allowing students the opportunity to meet with all six judges from Winners, Staples, Wrigley’s, TekSystems and Technical Standards and Safety Authority TSSA. Prizes were awarded to the overall winners in first and second place. Nicole Whitewood, 3rd year Business Marketing student was this year’s 1st place winner and received a $250.00 gift certificate from Winners. Second place went to Jason Dunphy, a 3rd year Business Marketing student who received a $140 gift certificate from Staples. Each student received Sheridan professional portfolios to assist with their overall interview impression.
The feedback from the participants was unanimous – all of the students felt this was a fantastic event and gained valuable feedback to assist with their future job search strategies.
“The Business Interview Competition was a great opportunity for me to perfect the skills I’ll need after I graduate at the end of this month. I had the chance to network with 6 recruiters in a speed-networking style which allowed me to speak one-on-one with potential employers, without the pressures of an actual interview. The employers also provided feedback on what they’re looking at when they hire,” said Nicole Whitewood, first place winner.
Professor Ginger Grant speaks about Business Innovation through Storytelling
Faculty of Business Professor Ginger Grant recently hosted a presentation on the impact of storytelling on business transformation at the Sheridan Applied Research Collaboration Centre, Trafalgar campus.
Storytelling is a tool increasingly used by business to portray complex issues in an engaging and comprehensive manner. Professor Grant says that the ethical complexities involved in conducting business in a global environment require a multicultural approach to business problems. Stories also provide the context where students can hone their moral imagination bringing a balance between critical and analytical thinking.
Professor Grant says the purpose of story has always been to act as a bridge between the past and the future: It is the stories of old that carry the cultural value system into the present and on into the future, re-contextualized to suit the time at hand. Why is this important now? Our mode of production has shifted to organizational knowledge creation and knowledge workers. In this new economic environment, a traditional mode of production thinking is potentially counter-productive if not destructive. A new paradigm is needed, one that recognizes that the future belongs to people who use their hearts as well as their heads. Awareness of this shift is the key to realizing a new paradigm that links passion to purpose with an economic driver.
This presentation is a sneak peek of Dr. Grant’s upcoming lecture at the Global Innovators Conference 2013 in Doha, Quatar, on April 4-7th.
Sheridan Faculty of Business students practice their etiquette in public
Good manners and a working knowledge of professional behavior are always essential and productive skills in every business person. These are the same skills that Sheridan Faculty of Business students practice in their Professional Edge course, a required second-year course in the Business Administration programs at Sheridan. The evening of March 25th, saw 50 students come together for the opportunity to learn and practice this important professional behavior at the annual Guided Dinner event, a capstone project of the Professional Edge course.
Louise Fox, professional etiquette coach
The elegant evening was orchestrated by industry expert Louise Fox, who provided a step-by-step commentary guiding Sheridan Faculty of Business students through contemporary business dining protocol as they enjoyed the wonderful five course meal.
This year’s event was held at Alice Fazooli’s restaurant in Mississauga. The guided dinner is offered as part of the Professional Edge course but is open to all interested students. The students who attended were very pleased with the event and vowed to practice their new skills daily.
The event was sponsored by the Faculty of Business and organized by Professor John McRae and Program Support Specialist Lesley Rumsby.
The event brought 23 teams, from 16 Ontario Colleges, together for a day of competition and learning. Students competed in events throughout the day with the grand event being the very challenging two hour case analysis and presentation competition. While Sheridan did not finish in first place in the Case competition, they represented Sheridan well, with the Trafalgar team taking first place in the Quiz Bowl event. The Trafalgar team, Stefana Szakacs Jack Leung Sarah Morales, was coached by Sally Mitzel, the HMC Team was coached by Professor Lorraine Cipparrone.
Shan Thillainatha, Nizam Hasbi, Brian Farquharson, Christopher Lopes, HMC CGA Team
“The competition is a tremendous opportunity to test college students’ analytical and soft skills in a competitive and real-world environment. Students had the opportunity to participate in skill building workshops and to network with professionals, association members, and other students from all over Ontario,” said Sally Mitzel, Business Administration – Accounting program Coordinator .
The 2013 CGA Case Competition was won by defending champions, George Brown College.
Sheridan Faculty of Business HMC Accounting Student Association (ASA) students recently trained for their upcoming Tax Preparation Clinic to be held March 28th from 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm at the Hazel McCallion Campus in Mississauga.
Through this valuable program students received training and tax preparation software that will be used to e-file the 2012 Income Tax returns for qualified individuals.
The Sheridan Accounting Students Association provides this free service to Sheridan students at the HMC campus on Thursday March 28th from 3:00 – 9:00. Students are required to sign-up in advanced of the clinic day.
The Trafalgar campus is also planning a tax preparation clinic for students at that campus. The event are hosted by the Sheridan Accounting Student Association and is sponsored by CGA Ontario.
” I believe it’s a great achievement, the students were really happy with how things went and were already speaking of nationals and next year,” said Vishal Badiani, Professor, Sheridan Faculty of Business.
According to the Enactus website: During the event, students showcase how their community outreach projects and business ventures are making a real impact in Canada and beyond. Through rounds of live, presentation based competitions, business leaders serving as judges determine which Enactus teams and student entrepreneurs will be named Regional Champions and move on to the final rounds of competition held at the Enactus Canada National Exposition. The competitive process, along with additional programming, provides an opportunity for collaboration and best-practice sharing, fosters innovation, encourages results and rewards excellence in entrepreneurial, community leadership.
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The Enactus Nationals are May 6-8, 2013 at The Metro Convention Centre in Toronto and The Sheridan Enactus Team will attend. Over the course of the three day event, students showcase how their community outreach projects and business ventures are enabling progress through entrepreneurial action. Through rounds of live, presentation based competition, business leaders serving as judges determine which Enactus team and student entrepreneur will be named National Champions and represent Canada on the global stage.
The competitive process, along with additional programming, provides an opportunity for collaboration and best-practice sharing, fosters innovation, encourages results and rewards excellence in entrepreneurial, community leadership.
Student teams from Sheridan, Centennial, Humber, Seneca, Durham, St. Clair, and Mohawk colleges were given approximately 6 weeks to research and prepare a Campaign book and presentation for Honda Civic.
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“The Grip Juicer competition was the most realistic representation of working in the advertising industry that I have experienced. This was one of the most rewarding and self-enlightening experiences and even though it took a lot of hard work and dedication, I am now better prepared to enter the industry and couldn’t be more thrilled with the outcome,” said Meika Yeo, Sheridan Advertising Account Management student.
“In experiencing competitions such as the Grip Juicer it doesn’t get any more “real-world” than this. It has given me a taste of what it will really be like, and solidified this is the industry I want to be a part of,” said Tiffany Phillips.
As per the Grip Juicer Competition Rule Book, the competition is described as: “The Grip Juicer Competition is an annual advertising competition hosted by Grip. It provides a great opportunity to apply classroom knowledge in a risk-free learning environment. Students can road test their advertising skills and work with a select group of faculty and students who are fiercely passionate and aspire to the highest principles of conduct. The Grip Juicer competition provides advertising students with a real-world problem that can be solved throughout knowledge, team effort and creativity.
Congratulations go out to Nizam Hasbi, Sheridan Bruins Toastmasters Club Winner and Area Speech Contest representative who competed at the event, Sheridan Faculty of Business Professor Ruben Burga, Chief Judge for the contest, Marcelle Camissa, Impromptu Target Speaker, Sheridan Bruins Chapter President Chris Lopes and Meghan Finlay, Ballot Counters, Anthony Truong, Sergeant-At-Arms, Ryan Muise, Timer, Odecca Ordonez, Vice-president Sheridan Bruins Chapter, Judge, Speech and Evaluation Contest and to Sheridan Faculty of Business Professor Vishal Badiani, Crystal Bennett, Tri Duong, Hisham Ammari, Iolo Francisco, and Kesavan Jegan who supported the event.
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Toastmasters International next hosts the Division C Speech and Evaluation Contest, Wednesday, March 27, 6:30 to 9:30pm in The Arbor Room, South Common Community Centre, 2233 South Millway, Mississauga.
Mahfuz completed his final Faculty of Business work term with Candybox Marketing in the Summer of 2012. Chowdury recognized the revolution happening within social media and saw it could be leveraged for business purposes. He sought a connection with Darrell Keezer, President of Candybox, and connected with him through LinkedIn. From there, he convinced Keezer to hire him for a social media marketing co-op position. At Candybox, his primary responsibility was to educate prospective clients seeking to integrate social media strategies as a part of their marketing plans. Chowdury applied his essential business-to-business sales techniques, marketing plan writing, and presentation skills to create and deliver workshops from his Sheridan marketing courses and started generating lucrative contracts for Candybox.
During his time at Candybox, he managed to double attendance in their Social Media workshops, acquired more than 1000 followers for the company’s Twitter and Facebook accounts, and created a buzz to achieve the highest number of sales for one of their biggest clients, Walk at Home. His work term evaluation was stellar and he was praised for his significant contributions to Candybox.
Born in Saudi Arabia, Chowdury moved to Mississauga with his parents who sought educational excellence for their son. He embraced college life at Sheridan through his involvement in academics, student organizations such as Enactus and as a Student Admission Representative. Not afraid of a challenge, Mahfuz is a stellar student who believes in positive self-growth and promotes his message through his own organization ‘Project Reinvention’ which has extended throughout Canada and internationally.
Mahfuz’s energy, enthusiasm and love of marketing is infectious. His smiling faces graces billboards, buses, websites and promotional material for Sheridan College as he represents Sheridan’s ideals of co-operative education and the integration of work and school. Chowdury has learned as much from the marketing co-op program as the marketing co-op program has learned from him.
As the voice for co-operative education in Canada, CAFCE assesses students’ achievements in job performance, academic performance and responsibility. They select one College and one University student throughout Canada in recognition of the students’ contributions to their employer, co-operative education and the community.
Sheridan Faculty of Business professor Dr. Wael Ramadan recently presented the research that underpins his new book “The Asset That Money Can’t Buy: The Influence of Organizational Culture on Sustainable Competitive Advantage of SMEs, World-Class Status, and Region”, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.
The presentation was part of a lunch and learn session held in the Applied Research Collaboration Centre, E207 at the Trafalgar Campus.
Dr. Ramadan’s first book: The Asset That Money Can’t Buy, is a three-essay research work that examines the effects of objective aspects of business organizational culture and the region on objective measures of the outcomes of sustainable competitive advantage.
The first essay examines the association of objective aspects of business organizational culture on objective measures of sustainable competitive advantage. The second essay describes a conceptual model and provides recommendations for best business practices for manufacturing firms to generate competitive advantage when exposed to global market processes. The third essay recommends economic development policy makers and business leaders to consider new business models that take advantage of regional economies in order to stay competitive.
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Dr. Ramadan is professor of Project Management in the Sheridan Faculty of Business and serves on the board of directors for PMI Lakeshore Chapter. Dr. Ramadan’s book is published by Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN-13: 978-3844313925.
Sheridan Faculty of Business are pleased to announce that Charles Sturt University (CSU), located in New South Wales, Australia and Burlington, Ontario, has signed an articulation agreement with Sheridan College which allows graduates of the following Ontario Graduate Certificate programs with advanced standing toward a CSU fully on-line 12 course MBA, and in some cases their fully on-line M.Sc. Human Resources program, providing the Sheridan graduate has 3 years relevant work experience and meets all other CSU program entrance requirements.
HR Grad Certificate graduate receives 4 courses advanced standing in the CSU MBA or the M.Sc. HR
International Business Grad Certificate graduate receives 4 courses advanced standing in the CSU MBA or the M.Sc. HR
Marketing Management Grad Certificate graduate receives 4 courses advanced standing in the CSU MBA
Financial Planning Grad Certificate graduate receives 4 courses advanced standing in the CSU MBA
Project Management Grad Certificate graduate receives 4 courses advanced standing in the CSU MBA
Business Process Management Grad Certificate graduate receives 4 courses advanced standing in the CSU MBA
Sheridan faculty and staff who complete one of these 6 Faculty of Business graduate certificates are also eligible to receive the advanced standing credits at CSU. Faculty and staff who are considering upgrading their qualifications to the Master’s level may want to consider completing one of these Graduate Certificate programs and then registering for the CSU MBA or M.Sc. Given the current Employee Access to Sheridan Courses at a Reduced Rate Policy this strategy would allow faculty and staff to complete a Sheridan Graduate Certificate at a significantly reduced rate and then only have to pay for an additional 8 Master’s level courses at CSU.
Charles Sturt University is a public university in Australia and its programs are recognized by the Commonwealth countries. At this time a current Master’s degree completed through CSU has been provisionally assessed as being equivalent to a Canadian Masters by WES. All of the CSU courses are on-line and courses are offered during the three CSU terms which start in February, July and November so it is possible to complete three courses per year.
If you are interested in finding out more about this exciting opportunity please email Jeremy Staples ( Jeremy.Staples@SheridanCollege.ca) who will assist you with answering any questions you may have about the program, the admissions process and next steps.
The Sheridan Faculty of Business sponsored Toastmasters Chapter at Sheridan College hosts the local Area Clubs’ International Speech Contest on Wednesday March 6th at The Hazel McCallion Campus (HMC), 4180 Duke of York Boulevard, Mississauga in The Randy Pilon and Family Auditorium A145 at 6:30 pm.
The Sheridan Bruins Toastmasters Club and four other local clubs will present their club speech contest winners in direct head-to-head competition with the ultimate presenter going on to the Division-level competition. This annual Toastmaster International competition challenges speakers to compete at the area level, move to the Division level, and then to the District level and finally to the International level. The Sheridan Bruins speaker is Nizam Muhammad, a student in the Faculty of Business Accounting program who won his spot at last week’s club contest at HMC.
The event is open to the public Wednesday March 6 at HMC in A145. Registration for the event begins at 6:30 pm with a $5 registration fee for refreshments.
For information on this contest contact Area 42 Governor: Elizabeth Yango at eyconsulting2010@gmail.com or contact Ruben Burga, VP of Education, Sheridan Bruins Toastmasters Club #2819045, Professor, Sheridan Faculty of Business at ruben.burga@sheridancollege.ca
Under the leadership of Advertising program Coordinator Cathryn Oliver, this inaugural event provided graduating students with an opportunity to network with 30 professionals from more than 20 different organizations in the advertising industry.
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“Many of the industry participants attended to recruit students for internships and entry level positions. Members of the Sheridan Advertising Program Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) also attended to share their experiences and provide feedback and advice on student resumes and portfolios,” said Cathryn Oliver, Coordinator, Advertising & Marketing Communications program.
Sheridan Faculty of Business students at the recent Virox Future Forum 2013
Sheridan Faculty of Business students recently had the opportunity to get a first hand glimpse into how the future of work will evolve for them in their lifetime. Sponsored by Randy Pilon, Sheridan Business Alumnus and President and CEO of Virox Technologies Inc., The Virox Future Forum 2013 presented several highly sought business speakers who spoke to Sheridan Faculty of Business students about the use of demographic data to accurately predict emerging trends and lessons and stories on how to become an entrepreneur in business.
Noted demographer, professor and highly sought business consultant, David K. Foot presented an intense look at how to find emerging trends in socio-economic groups through the use of historical demographic data. Sean Wise, venture capitalist, university professor, and consultant to the Dragon’s Den and Shark’s Tank television series demonstrated how to formulate a business pitch to venture capitalists in order to entice them to invest in your business.
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In addition to the lectures, Faculty of Business students had an opportunity to engage in a panel discussion with David Foot, Randy Pilon and Sean Wise, win one of several $1000 cash awards and a personal coaching session with Virox CEO Pilon, plus engage in up-close and personal round table discussions with the Forum presenters and Dr. Jeff Zabudsky, President, Sheridan College, Dr William Holmes, Dean Faculty of Business and members of his business team.
Lindsay Cannon, Erin McManus, and Jason Dunphy with professors Peggy Barnwell and Keith Barnwell
Sheridan Faculty of Business Advertising students Lindsay Cannon, Jason Dunphy and Erin McManus took a Bronze Award in their division at the annual Vanier College Case Event in Montreal. The Sheridan Advertising students competed recently along with students from 26 colleges from across Canada.
“Competing in the Vanier Case Competition was something I will never forget. I was able to work with exceptional coaches who demonstrated commitment, dedication and support throughout the entire process and I couldn’t have asked for better teammates. The learning experiences and memories made during Vanier will last a lifetime,” said Erin McManus.
“The most exciting part for me was getting to actually apply our education in a competitive nature and comparing other school’s work to ours, which is something you miss out on with OCMC because of the closed presentations. We bonded strongly as a team, this was an experience I’ll never forget,” said Lindsay Cannon.
The Vanier Case Challenge 2013 offers tough competition among the student teams from all of the competing schools. Each of the participating colleges fields a single team of three students to make a case presentation in front of a jury. Cases are of a strategic marketing orientation and judged by a panel of industry professionals. Competing teams consist of 2nd or 3rd year Marketing /Business Administration concentration students.
Sheridan Faculty of Business Advertising graduates now working in the Advertising industry recently joined up with undergraduates of the Advertising and Communications Management program to network and share ideas on industry careers and advice on how to get that first job after graduation from Sheridan College.
“Our Advertising program graduates are very generous, and return yearly to give advice to our soon-to-be-graduating Advertising classes. These meetings are the key factor that make the connection for our students between college studies and the real industry,” said Peggy Barnwell, outgoing Coordinator, Advertising and Communications Management program.
Graduates brought key videos from their client portfolios to share with the undergraduates which included product ads from Cialis to the Kraft Cheese devil.
Students from Sheridan’s Faculty of Business Tourism & Travel, join Early Childhood Education and Print Journalism students for TheSpread the Net Student Challenge, a fundraiser and awareness campaign about the impact that Malaria has on a significant portion of the world’s population and the leading cause of death in Africa.
Every 60 seconds a child dies from Malaria. An easy, effective, long-lasting, and affordable solution is the use of bed nets which have been proven to reduce the incidence of Malaria by at least 50%.
Students will be staffing a table in Sheridan’s “B” Wing at Trafalgar Campus this Tuesday and Wednesday to collect funds and provide information. With the retirement of the Canadian penny, we will be happy to accept them from donors and do the coin rolling. In exchange for a donation of any amount (including pennies) donors are offered a paper to write the name of a loved one and place it in the displayed bed net.
“The team from Sheridan College is competing against 15 other colleges and universities across Canada. The winning school will be featured on an episode of the CBC’s Rick Mercer Reportin April, 2013,” said Roger Halfacre, Professor, Sheridan Faculty of Business.
Enactus Sheridan participated in its first National Exposition at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre where the event welcomed 51 Colleges and Universities, 1,200 delegates, academic professionals and top Canadian CEO’s.
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