Improve Business Education on the Job

Improve the business of business education to further improve business.

How can people who make a living educating people on business improve their profession? What business model improvements are possible?

Look for ways to move from classroom theory to work place reality, get closer to the action, the real world providing the ultimate case studies, on the fly even, to be realistic, practical.

Hands-on workplace "teachers," whether called consultants or advisers or coaches or something else, are often outside professionals.

But there are others like senior managers, who may have the added benefit of already being much more familiar with the company, who, with appropriate tutoring where needed, could be even better, and certainly more permanent teachers than outside professionals.

There is always value in having an outsider's out-of-the-box point of view, but all the teachers certainly don't have to be outside professionals.

Any organization's master leader, even as servant leader, is ideally positioned to be master teacher.

There is something to the saying that "Teachers learn more than the students," so give everyone an opportunity to teach with the protection of teamwork and appropriate collaboration.

Teaching is a learn-able, cross-trainable skill, and worthy of being an ongoing part of overall company leadership, which is also learn-able.

Look for teaching and self-learning moments and seize them as improvement opportunities.