An MBA in a month?
Knowing that you have been worked
hard may well be a valid indicator of the worth of a training programme,
so “feeling that I’ve done an MBA in one month” seems to suggest
success.
That was the reaction to the end
of the first Quest
programme run by TMPL that finished last week. It was delivered
as two residential workshops of four days each with both the learners and
the facilitators Peter
Cox and Debbie
Kingsley working an 8am to sometimes 11pm day! So hard work for
all of us.
We had eight participants from
six Birmingham arts organisations helping us test out a highly concentrated
format of the organisational development programme that has also been delivered
as ALITA
(Action Learning in the Arts) – most recently delivered over
a period of two years. The participants seemed more than up to it, relishing
indeed every new challenge of thinking and working that we threw at them.
Quest is designed to support our
theory that organisations need visions, work based on clear objectives,
leadership at all levels, and a thirst for learning. The subjective observation
is that each of the six organisations that took part will be in a different
place next year from where they are now.
