In other words: commit, but with all the stakeholders involved—especially your employer and colleagues, your family, and your close friends. Everyone should be clear about your new path, your ambitions, and the adjustments and changes that need to be made. Ultimately, these discussions might help refine your career plan and will definitely save you time and energy later. Support from your professional and family environment is crucial for returning to studies.
During your training, sharing your professional project also means discussing your discoveries, learnings, questions, areas for improvement, and successes with these same stakeholders. Over the 18 months of training, you will explore new areas, open up to new perspectives, and experiment. It is essential to communicate this evolution to your work environment and your loved ones to maintain their support and grow alongside them.
Obvious, isn’t it? Perhaps. But reality is often more unpredictable. While you need to allocate specific time slots for your courses and assignments, including on your personal time, the key is the quality of the hours you dedicate to your studies. This means identifying the times when you are cognitively most effective, in what context, and during what time frame—in short, knowing your chronotype.
Do you work best early in the morning, in the silence of your office with the smell of hot coffee? Or conversely, is your concentration and productivity at its peak late at night to the rhythm of Jean-Michel Blais’ compositions in your ears? This pace will be yours, and only yours, for productive and enriching study sessions.
Throughout the Executive MBA, you will be regularly encouraged to apply theory through practical cases directly relevant to your company. The objective here is twofold. First, to reinforce the retention of learning which might otherwise be forgotten if not immediately implemented. Second, to motivate your workplace’s support for your professional project: by bringing the benefits of your training to your company, your employer and colleagues will be more inclined to support you.
For you, this provides numerous opportunities to enhance your skills through on-the-job experience. These are unique opportunities in your professional journey, guided by experts at Rennes School of Business and enriched by the sharing of your fellow students. Eighteen months of unparalleled richness, topped with the prestige of a school recognised internationally.
