Music City Horn
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Fellow Hornfans,
Here’s a long, and quite broad, inquiry for you:
I have to preface this by pointing out that I’m an academic by training…a PhD and publications in history, college-level teaching and administrative experience (plus a short stint in sales admin and marketing right out of college).
I’ve been in academia now for ~15 years (counting grad school and close to ten years of being on a college faculty). What I’m wondering is whether there might be some opportunities to translate some of my expertise into consulting in the non-academic world. Here’s a very brief summation:
As part of my teaching, I’ve developed a lot of experience in adapting a teaching method called Problem-Based Learning into college curricula and even into some faculty development workshops. PBL, as it’s called, started out in medical schools and has started spreading out into other areas of academe.
There’s a vast literature out there on PBL (we're academics, after all). Essentially, it is a process that offers a clear method to assist a group of people define essential problems, craft clear and testable hypotheses or solutions, and develop clear communication and shared-task plans. There’s an entire cottage industry of people who offer courses/seminars in PBL to other teachers—at all levels.
What I’m wondering is whether any of you could imagine an application of this for management/employee consulting. I know that most consulting is much more focused by industry. In some ways, I suppose this is something along the lines of consulting/employee/business culture development.
I’m going to start doing some research into all of this. But I’m curious if any of you have come across, or have had any experience with, this type of consulting work.
Again, I know...pretty broad. But any thoughts would be appreciated!
Here’s a long, and quite broad, inquiry for you:
I have to preface this by pointing out that I’m an academic by training…a PhD and publications in history, college-level teaching and administrative experience (plus a short stint in sales admin and marketing right out of college).
I’ve been in academia now for ~15 years (counting grad school and close to ten years of being on a college faculty). What I’m wondering is whether there might be some opportunities to translate some of my expertise into consulting in the non-academic world. Here’s a very brief summation:
As part of my teaching, I’ve developed a lot of experience in adapting a teaching method called Problem-Based Learning into college curricula and even into some faculty development workshops. PBL, as it’s called, started out in medical schools and has started spreading out into other areas of academe.
There’s a vast literature out there on PBL (we're academics, after all). Essentially, it is a process that offers a clear method to assist a group of people define essential problems, craft clear and testable hypotheses or solutions, and develop clear communication and shared-task plans. There’s an entire cottage industry of people who offer courses/seminars in PBL to other teachers—at all levels.
What I’m wondering is whether any of you could imagine an application of this for management/employee consulting. I know that most consulting is much more focused by industry. In some ways, I suppose this is something along the lines of consulting/employee/business culture development.
I’m going to start doing some research into all of this. But I’m curious if any of you have come across, or have had any experience with, this type of consulting work.
Again, I know...pretty broad. But any thoughts would be appreciated!
