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The shift from teaching to learning

July 28, 2017By Mike Hohnen

Learning by discovery and collaboration once again proved its value.
This week we spent time in Oman working with COWI Gulf. Together with their finance department we developed a 2 day training on the ins and outs of running a project from the financial point of view.I.e. are we on track financially, does this tally with our budget and that sort of stuff

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The challenge here is always: how does one make a subject fun and engaging when it is already considered drab and dull before we even get started.

The traditional approach is of course to arm yourself with a large deck of power-points outlining the does and don’t of financial management.

That may be how you teach finance – but that is not necessarily the best way to actually learn finance.

So instead we created a scenario that very much resembles their day to day situation, with the problems and pitfalls of real life and had them work through that in teams of 3 – if they got stuck they could ask questions – but essentially they worked it out between themselves – collaborative learning in full bloom – what a pleasure!

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Next week we shall take it up a notch…

Filed Under: GROW, Leadership/Management, Training & Development Tagged With: Action Learning

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