IILM since inception has always believed in overall development of students and educating them holistically rather than just making them literate in the area of management. To achieve this objective IILM offers Total Personality Development and Elective Courses which help in honing the skills beyond classrooms and board rooms.

1 Bridge Courses At IILM COLLEGE, we conduct bridge courses, prior to the commencement of the Bradford semester. At IILM COLLEGE, the semester devoted to bridge courses  is primarily aimed at ensuring that students are effectively able to deal with the challenges presented to them. The bridge course semester extends for a period of 6 weeks. The rationale behind the courses included in this semester is two fold :

(1)  To sensitize the students to the vagaries of the modern world and to learn to cope with the demands as posed by the global economy today.
(2)  To improve learning by utilizing new knowledge and instructional techniques.
The most basic goals of an education at the undergraduate level remains the ability to think, write, and speak clearly; to reason critically; to solve problems; to work collaboratively; to acquire field-specific knowledge; and to acquire the judgment, analytic capacity, and independence of thought to support continued, self-driven, lifelong learning and engaged citizenship. These critical goals of education at the undergraduate level should be enduring and lasting.

2 The modules taught in the Bridge courses include: – 

• Maths
• Office 2007
• Accounting
• Soft Skills
• Economics
• Effective Learning Service

3 Workshops For Value Added Learning

Workshops combine training, development, team-building, communication, motivation and planning. They are highly effective in managing change and adding further value to students. Prior to the commencement of the Bradford session in September, we conduct workshops for our students in the areas of branding, stock market analysis, business across cultures, personality assessment and theatre. Workshops are designed to ensure overall development of the student.

This semester includes the following workshops:

4 Case Study Analysis 

The Case Study presents an account of what happened to a business or industry over a number of years. It chronicles the events that managers have to deal with, such as changes in the competitive environment, and charts the managers response, which usually involves changing the business or corporate level strategy. Just as prospective doctors need to combine theoretical learning with clinical practice, so too, prospective managers also need to learn to apply theory and concepts to practical situations. It will provide students with first hand experience of organizational problems, so as to be able to appreciate and analyze the problems faced by many different companies and to understand how mangers deal with them. It helps students practically apply the concepts they have learned. The theory and concepts help reveal what is going on in the companies studied and allows the students to evaluate the solutions that companies adopt to deal with the problems.

5 –Stock Market Analysis

Transfer of resources from those with idle resources to others who have a productive need for them is perhaps most efficiently achieved through the securities markets. Stated formally, securities markets provide channels for allocation of savings to investments and thereby decouple these two activities. As a result, the savers and investors are not constrained by their individual abilities, but by the economy's abilities to invest and save respectively, which inevitably enhances savings and investment in the economy. The Stock market provides a market place for purchase and sale of securities and thereby ensures transferability of securities, which is the basis for the joint stock enterprise system. The course covers an orientation towards Indian financial system, evolution and history of stock markets and SEBI's role & regulations. 

6 –Branding

Workshop on Brands - a workshop where students are given a deeper insight into the brands they use and how they further enhance one's personality and self.

7 –Know Thyself “The self is the individual as known to the individual”.

Self includes what we know about ourselves and how we evaluate ourselves physically, morally, spiritually, materially and in relation to family, friends and work associates. In this fast moving world, we all find it difficult to spare time to stop and reflect on various life events. The art of achieving goals or objectives for life lie in understanding our self, building on our strengths and overcoming weaknesses.

Psychometric testing provides information on the individual's current and potential competence to perform a job successfully. It is a tool for one's introspection, self- exploration and self governance.

8 –Business across Cultures

Business across cultures sensitized students on the growing importance of cross cultural communication and diversity management in the global business environment. Lectures, Quizzes and video clips on Cross cultural awareness, differences across cultures were used to deliver the workshop

9 –India on the move

Rapid growth since 1980s has transformed India to stand among the 10 largest economies today. The workshop on Indian economy "India on the move "intends to develop a basic understanding regarding India's growth trajectory, its macro economic environment, institutions and policies and the present economic scenario. This one week workshop aims at equipping students in developing a macro view regarding business activities and an understanding of macro policies on the business they undertake

Learning Environment

IILM provides a conducive learning environment for students which is supported by facilities like Library, Computer Lab, state-of-art Lecture Theatres, Syndicate Rooms and an Auditorium.

Library:

Well-equipped, fully computerized multimedia library provides the latest and up-to-date reading, research and reference material in print, electronic and audio-visual formats. The total collection of books is more than 7,000 and College ascriptions are made to about 200 national and international journals.

In addition, to cultivate values in students and help them in their over all development, the library has an array of books on social issues as well as autobiographies, encyclopedia and historical readings.  The audio-visual materials available include a collection of business games, simulated corporate scenarios and discourses by industrialists. The vast reading room of the library provides a conducive environment for complete concentration to all students.

There are 21 Pentium Dell machines equipped with CD-ROM drives and printers. The Internet facility is available in separate carrels, which constitute an important part of library infrastructure.

The reference section of the library has further been strengthened. It contains several prestigious and well known publications such as 10 volumes of Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, The New Webster's International Encyclopedia, Geeds and Grosset's Family Encyclopedia, the International Encyclopedia of Marketing published by European Marketing Union, Chronology of Twentieth Century History of Business and Economics (Two Volumes), Brockhomptons Dictionary of Arts, Ideas Science and History, MIT volume on Organizational Behaviour and Processes, IRIS Yearbook of India, Global Competitiveness Reports. 

The library receives an- array of 200 Indian and foreign journals which includes prestigious journals like Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, the Economist, Fortune, Vikalpa , Management Review and many others.  The Library has obtained membership to several full-text online electronic databases with access to nearly 4000 journals. These journals are accessible through the University of Bradford gateway. The Library also sCollegecribes to online CAPITALINE database. Library also sCollegecribes to the monthly database of Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy.

10 Movie Library

In an effort to introduce new and innovative pedagogical tools. The Library has procured a large number of movies CD-ROM, VCD/DVDs, related to various subjects taught in management programs.

The IILM library has the following tie-ups:

1. Institutional Library Membership

Expanding its wings of association, the library has acquired institutional membership of American Information Resource Centre and British Council Library. Both the libraries are being extensively used both by the students and faculty members of IILM for reference and research purposes.

2. Developing Library Network

Our IILM library joined the Developing Library Network DELNET) in 2005. DELNET is an electronic network of more than 1500 major libraries of India. Using the combined resources of all the member institutes. DELNET has created very useful databases of books, Journals, Audio-Visual material and CD-ROMs etc. The IILM library now has online access to all these databases and also our IILM libraries own database of books is also available on DELNET.

3 EBSCO Business Source Premier Database

Library has acquired EBSCO Business Source Premier Database, which provides thousand of full text case study, biography, speech, working paper, report, proceeding, article, book review in different areas i.e. Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Information and Social Insurance and hospital management.

4 Computing Facility

Computing is a vital instructional and research tool. In recognition of the contribution that computers can make to further the educational objectives, the institute has a state-of-the-art computing facility on its campus. With a campus wide wireless LAN, IILM is among the few institutions around the world that offer this convenience to its faculty and students. High speed internet connectivity through a dedicated link ensures an uninterrupted access to the information superhighway.

The computing facility is divided into three areas, the main computer lab, library and the instructional lab with a total of about 150 systems. Other than the computers available for use by the students, the backend is supported by robust IBM servers and a CISCO firewall. In order to provide exposure to different Operating Systems, the Institute provides a well rounded, hands-on experience on different systems available in the corporate world today. Our computer labs are equipped with Linux  Ubuntu, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Among the variety of software available is the latest MS Office 2007 and SPSS 15. 

IILM also has a sophisticated web based intranet system that offers continuous interaction between the faculty and students. Apart from providing a life long web based email account, the intranet also has facilities of online discussion boards, personalized web pages and courseware exchanges

Dynamic Faculty

In any academic institution, the most important place is the classroom and the most important activity is the teaching-learning process.The teaching fraternity is a key to this process who, through their expertise, converts knowledge into wisdom, thereby making it applicable beyond the boundaries of time and space. IILM has a diverse pool of intellectual capital drawn from various fields,endowed with rich research and teaching experience.The efforts of core faculty members are supplemented by visiting faculty from leading institutions and organizations.