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  • 1.  Can management educators learn from trainers?

    Posted 08-07-1997 11:45
    The recent discussion thread regarding the uses of evaluation
    after a seminar ( see bob gately's most recent posting) raises
    for me a more general issue to which I would welcome comment
    from subscribers to this list.

    What can management educators learn in the way of delivery
    methods and content from management development trainers?

    Have any of you who are management educators and development
    trainers found methods of delivery that are transferrable to
    both the University classroom and the training site?

    Robert DeFillippi
    Suffolk University
    Sawyer School of Management
    8 Ashburton Place
    Boston, MA 02108-2770
    617-573-8243
    fax- 573-8345
    rdefilli@suffolk.edu


  • 2.  Can management educators learn from trainers?

    Posted 08-07-1997 14:01
    Robert DeFillippi <rdefilli@ACAD.SUFFOLK.EDU> wrote:

    (Hello neighbor!)

    >>... What can management educators learn
    in the way of delivery methods and content
    from management development trainers?...<<

    As a fairly recent Executive MBA graduate (NU, 1992)
    my suggestions are as follows:
    - help students learn about themselves
    - help students understand their own behavior
    - help students to realize how hard it is to change their behaviors
    - help students to know that changing other people's behaviors is much
    harder than changing their own behaviors.

    My suggestions for improving the image of management education are:
    - be clear to students and employers that degrees do not make the
    holder an effective employee, just qualified to be hired, maybe.
    - be clear to students and business owners and managers that the
    responsibility for hiring good employees rests squarely on the
    shoulders of the employers who are the only ones who can know
    if applicants will be successful.

    Just a few quick thoughts.

    Bob

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