GABY BOONE

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• GABY BOONE
• Management Centre Europe
• (MCE)

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MCE Facts and figures

• AMA founded in US in 1923 (Parent Company)
• Pioneered the Practitioner teaching
  Practitioner concept
• A global provider of highly interactive hands-on
  learning solution
• Public Programmes
• In-Company Solutions
• Conferences
• Course curricula incorporates best practices
  and latest business thinking
• MCE founded in 1961 (EMEA headquarters)
• Mexico 1966
• Canada 1974
• Asia in 1993

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MCE/AMAs global reach
BangkokBeijing BrusselsIstanbulKuala
LampurLondonShanghaiSingapore Tokyo
Affiliates
AtlantaChicagoMexico CityNewYorkSanFranciscoT
orontoWashington,DC
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MCE in brief

• FOCUS
• Business education
• Management Development
• Organisational Development
• for International Corporations/Organisations

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Gaby Boone

• Organisational psychologist
• Background Management Development,
  Organisational Development
• Where 3M, Citibank, Honeywell, Europay,
  Swissair/Sabena, D.I.E.U.
• Present Director Programme Development Faculty
  Management at Management Centre Europe (MCE)
• Im a stranger here, but that might be a start
  of innovative mobility between vocational
  training and management development

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Lets find out if
Vocational Training
Management Development

• Can encounter and learn from each other in
  stimulating Creativity and Innovation
• we have a similar task
• but we dont talk to each other a lot

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Where do we come from?

• Does it evolve?
• Academic Learning
• Involve business people to bridge to reality
• Continuously search for the appropriate learning
  set-ups for adults and faster applicability
• . and it moved on Harvard Case Studies,
  Outdoor Learning, Blended Solutions, Action
  Learning, Peer Learning, Metaphor Learning, link
  it all to Organisational Effectiveness

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Intermezzo

• Take 30 to ensure that you are guiding your
  brain towards the right paradigm here
• Vocational Training Management Development are
  part of the same family moving individuals,
  teams and organisations towards a higher/better
  level
• gtgtgtgt How can we pick-up ideas from what is going
  on in the garden of my MD/OD brother
• Lets take that 30

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What have we been doing in MD/OD?

• TQM, Re-engineering , managing in multi-cultural
  realities, globalisation and glocalisation, Lean
  Fast, Wall Street pressure, CSR discussions,
  etc.
• They all tango with Management Development
• We have to be innovative to ensure that
  management education does leverage the
  bottom-line or the effectiveness of an
  organisation

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Some Samples part of the these can be
translated into vocational training environments
(if they are not there yet)
Individual Team Cross-functional Cross-countries

• Action Learning Projects
• Business Simulations translate models into
  realities
• Metaphor Learning (Jazz band might give the Aha
  Erlebnis)

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Some Samples part of the these can be
translated into vocational training environments
(if they are not there yet)

• Brains, Hands Play make an adult learn (e.g.
  LSP)
• Engaging stimulates learning e.g. invite a
  customer in the classroom
• Storytelling e.g. my best experience in
  coaching

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• Take 5 think 1 and tell 1 a learning story to
  your neighbour

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Some Samples part of the these can be
translated into vocational training environments
(if they are not there yet)

• Peer Learning
• Knowledge Centres Collaborative Learning
  lets continue
• And, something we learned from you or the
  engineers if you measure it, you can understand
  it and move the targets

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Face Reality

• Stimulating Creativity Steering Innovation
  might kick-box with internal rules, objectives
  and corporate culture

Create a love affair between organisational
effectivenessand innovation
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Preliminary Conclusions (there are no final ones
anyhow)

• Innovation is simply an Organisational Survival
  Competence and has to be on the Boards agenda
• Innovation cant survive without Creativity
  this demands courage for taking risks

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Preliminary Conclusions (there are no final ones
anyhow)

• The final goal is the longer term Organisational
  Effectiveness
• thats where Vocational Training Management
  Development should meet and push the evolution
• lets start to bridge

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Organisational Effectiveness
Management Development
Vocational Training
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Organisational Effectiveness

• Show your contribution to the bottom line, your
  value of making the organisation more effective
  (measure)
• Dont stick to the programmes, the products, the
  projects but look at the broader frame
• (Think of what keeps the leaders awake at night
  and how can we contribute)

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Organisational Effectiveness

• This demands an ongoing quest for Innovation
• Innovation survival evolution
• Innovation demands risk
• Risk is not a danger, it is a task to be managed
  .. and it can motivate (your customers, your
  team you)

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• Enjoy your conference!