Comment Re:It's called "Professional Development". (Score 1) 741
Ah, but in your response you show you did learn a key real-world skill: "social engineering." This is one of the best skills for getting along with cow-orkers, suppliers, employees, clients ...
Find a way to make a personal connection with them, and have them "on-sides" when the going gets thick. They'll be motivated to work to keep the connection going. Loyalty, that kind of thing.
It works and it's something a lot of young kids haven't mastered right out of school.
It's another question what kind of program could enhance learning these skills. Assigning group projects is one attempt to sneak this skill set into the learning process. Not many classes have lectures on "How to win friends and influence people" (thank you Dale Carnegie) but you need to learn it somewhere.
On the broader issue of what courses to include in a broad education, I've seen some persuasive arguments that humanities classes help kids come to understand how people function in communities including the business world. Novels or plays about loyalty, betrayal, revenge and so on start to look pretty relevant indeed when you see business as an aspect of the human experience - one place where all those psychological forces are at work.
Find a way to make a personal connection with them, and have them "on-sides" when the going gets thick. They'll be motivated to work to keep the connection going. Loyalty, that kind of thing.
It works and it's something a lot of young kids haven't mastered right out of school.
It's another question what kind of program could enhance learning these skills. Assigning group projects is one attempt to sneak this skill set into the learning process. Not many classes have lectures on "How to win friends and influence people" (thank you Dale Carnegie) but you need to learn it somewhere.
On the broader issue of what courses to include in a broad education, I've seen some persuasive arguments that humanities classes help kids come to understand how people function in communities including the business world. Novels or plays about loyalty, betrayal, revenge and so on start to look pretty relevant indeed when you see business as an aspect of the human experience - one place where all those psychological forces are at work.
