This exercise was developed for an Organizational Behavior course in Capital University's MBA program. These students bring a wealth of experience and stories to the classroom. Because most of them are managers, they have first-hand experience, and often pressing questions, surrounding many course topics. In many cases their examples and their problems provide vivid illustrations of Organizational Behavior concepts in action. As such, they are an effective practice to be integrated into the mix of activities used in the MBA classroom.
Adults learn by doing and participating.
They will use their experiences as resources for learning. These exercises call upon experience as a resource, take a problem-centered approach, and provide students with solutions or action steps that they can implement following the session. The collaborative element of this process calls for students to listen to each other and look to each other as resources. Next, students are encouraged to think creatively about the problem. Finally students determine the best courses of action.