Academia meets Commerce

Client problem

Following a huge influx of executive managers enrolling on a part-time MBA, this large and prestigious university in the south west of England needed to extend its academic staff to accommodate this.  They needed associate facilitators who could bring real-world business insight into the management modules, and yet who had the intellectual competence to undertake the task of marking, grading and moderating MBA assignments.

Our involvement

The task of facilitating the action learning sets meant that Janine was involved in supporting, coaching, mentoring and advising. Like many students, executive students have specific needs which required discretion, honest feedback, appropriate challenge and maximum support. Often remotely, often out of hours. 

What we delivered

The programme requires students to apply academic theory and personal reflection to the task of managing relationships, which meant accessing their inner world of thoughts and feelings, needs and motivations. The greatest challenge was in helping learners discover a tangible route through an intangible subject, and create opportunities to experiment with management actions in their real worlds. Janine helped draw out insights, meanings and intentions, so students could turn their experiments into structured and academically-rigorous assignments.

Results

100% pass rate is the best testimony, helping senior executives achieve academic success whilst they held down a full-time job and faced the usual impossible challenges: promotions, personal challenges, career changes, threats and uncertainties. Greatest achievement amongst this was in helping successful business leaders to find their management soul.

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