What Are We Learning?
Attending the Gazelles/Fortune Small Business Growth conferences for the past 4 years, I have noticed that the recent MBA’s there are always upset that they hadn’t already learned all of this content during their education. For example, even Jim Collins’ Good to Great was missing from their required and suggested reading lists. In working at a local University’s business school, I found that upon my suggestion, they started making that book part of the required reading. My biggest surprise came last night when a current MBA student told me that his professor had not mentioned blogs or social networking when explaining marketing platforms. This student asked the professor if was aware of these tools, and he said yes. Then, the professor asked the student to please explain them to the class; what they are and how to use them. I am more and more concerned as we interview students with a public relations education, and find that they do not know anything about media relations, or students with marketing degrees that don’t know how to use Google.
The #1 way to increase creativity and learning in the majority of the population is stimulus. (For the top 4% of the highest IQ population, it is meditation).
What are you doing for you and your employees to keep them ahead or at the top?
We offer:
1. Strengths training that teaches dramatic team productivity, on the job happiness, and lower turnover.
2. Full company training on how not to de-motivate at all levels. (You can find this in the research from Jim Collins.)
3. The tools to sell more product or service with less effort by 5pm, daily. (Data and implementation from thousands of research papers with a future focus.)
November 19th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Strengths focused training and encouragement is really the key. Strengths Finder 2.0 is such a great tool we’ve experimented with in our organization. So much focus in old thinking is on fixing things you don’t do great, when in fact that only downgrades the things you were wired to do better than anyone else.