MANAGEMENT TEACHING
MAY 2017
MANAGEMENT TEACHING - CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION CANVAS
FOR LOCAL INTERVENTIONS IN ANDRAGOGY .
A
must needed tool kit of
forever refreshing
Andragogy for
management courses today.
Introduction:
The candid confessions with
my corporate colleagues, the
brainstorming with my alumni
and my burning desire of
passion to only give quality
helped me to chart down and
prepare me always for the ne
tuning of the Andragogy to be
delivered through a rigour of
creativity and innovation
interventions.
This is the burning question
which needs to be addressed
through a Kaleidoscope which
integrates knowledge –
functional and academic, skill
a n d c o u r a g e t o t a ke t h e
decisions by being responsible
and accountable with a ery
use of values and ethics to build
the character and revolve
around the ever haunted
question of getting employed.
These young aspirants who
seek the admission to the
management courses need
unique value propositions in
everything that they learn and
unlearn during their
m a n a g e m e n t r i g o u r . The
presentation and delivery of the
management courses needs a
s i g n a t u r e m a ke o v e r w i t h
unique concoction of hands on
for these young and curious
management aspirants of today
and tomorrow.
What thought then occurred to
me as an expert and a facilitator
is to make the Andragogy for
these young learners more
understood as “need friendly”.
The need friendly dimension
includes delivery of functional
and academic knowledge
connected to resolve local
management issues
sur rounding the business
environment irrespective of the
sector and business which then
gets displayed and delivered
during the campus to corporate
transactions.
The whole journey for me
began by a ver y common
rationale of visualising myself
as a student sitting in the
classroom for a 90 minutes
class for on an average 4
subjects to be listened to,
through different experts and
through different tools, what
would hook me on or get me
engaged at least for 50 minutes
without any distraction was my
rst hurdle to crossover as a
facilitator. Phew! Difcult
challenge, but not
impossible... amidst the
schools of thoughts and the
never ending debates between
theory and quantitative
subjects of which being more
scoring and not more scoring
still continues even today.
Interestingly looking at the forte
that I come from curiosity and
hands on experience or getting
on eld to test and verify the
different fundamentals or
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theories in the real world of
corporate always made me
engineer my interventions to
get the right tment for the
delivery.
The best chemistry or
formulae which worked in my
Andragogy is to look at local
management problems in and
a ro u n d i n t h e c o r p o r a t e
market and revolve around it
by discussing the
fundamentals. Interestingly
the subject of General
management like principles of
management and perspectives
could be delivered to them by
making them work in all the
festivals across Mumbai city.
This could be as simple and
complex as managing faith of
devotees who visit their deity
lord Ganpati or bidding him
good bye after his long stay with
his bhaktas all across the city.
It could cover the local
management of the festivals
which can cross boundaries to
understand the famous human
pyramid festival of ( D a h i
Handi) to get the talent hiring,
selection and job descriptions
and specications right. The
cricket match format could be
well surveyed to understand
the positioning and selling of it
as a business opportunity and
how the local sports could be
given a boost by making the
students understand the
p ro b l e m s a s s o c i a t e d a n d
decisions to be taken.