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LIFELONG LEARNING IN AND WITH SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED COMPANIES
Learning Region Main-Kinzig+Spessart (Hesse/Bavaria)
Additional qualification as “project guide”
I. Problem
With the exception of a few large companies we know of no
incentive models in the region designed to promote the
skills needed by the next generation of managers. Accordingly,
it is hard for small and medium-size businesses to create
bonds between themselves and qualified young managers.
In particular, young women are conspicuously
underrepresented in management and in decision-making
positions.
II. Solution approach
We are training high-flying school-students and vocational
trainees as “project guides”. This service is aimed at the promotion
of both personal and methodological/media skills:
we give the young people training in the areas of project
management, “learning to learn”, presentation and chairing
techniques, and team management. In addition we both
encourage and require working in a team, self-motivation,
readiness to work hard, politeness and reliability, organization
and ability to make and take criticism.
After gaining their additional qualification, the “projectguide
teams” become active as multipliers themselves. As
such, on the one hand they practise and reinforce their additional
qualification, and on the other pass on their specific
knowledge to other target groups, e.g. vocational-training
instructors, teachers at different kinds of school, trainee
teachers, and parents.
We address ourselves to young men and women alike,
and hope that young women in particular will take advantage
of this additional qualification and thus open up for
themselves the possibility not only of trying out new roles in
the learning process that deviate from the traditional gender-based
notions, but also developing performance-related
skills and taking on positions of leadership.
The “peer education” idea (whereby school students and
apprentices teach school students and apprentices) is pedagogically
interesting and has been successful where implemented:
demand in the schools shows that their is a need for
this form of learning.
The form taken by the “project guide” qualification is as follows.
• Training the project-pilots in presentation and chairing
techniques, lecturing techniques, use of media, preparing
meetings, fundamentals of teamwork, and project
management.
• During the training period participants form teams and
choose a joint topic, e.g. job-application training.
• The teams prepare the topic on their own as a presentation,
a lecture, and as a teaching-unit, as a result of which
they think about it very thoroughly, and thus internalize it.
• This phase is followed by practical “guide” activity, in
other words the teams put the topic across to others.
III. Outlook
Companies, schools and youth organizations can in future
have recourse to the project-guide pool and book teams for
their own work in situ. As a result, the qualification and
referral of project guides will come to be structurally
anchored in the region.
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