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EIIL MASTERCLASS METHODOLOGY

EIIL Learning – Key Learning

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100% Lecture Style Learning

100% Experience Learning

UniversityLecture based classes - Largely 'correct' answers

On the JobFocused experiences with in-house Manager & Mentor Support

At the EIIL we recognise two extremes on a continuum of learning styles.

• We know that much workplace learning is achieved through experience ‘on the job’

• Often with the experiences being offered to us by a Manager to ensure we are exposed to those of a certain type, finding out ‘the way we do things around here’.

• A guide or Mentor is sometimes assigned to help us reflect on our experiences; review and embed the learning from each.

• At the other end of the continuum is the lecture-based learning style we’re familiar with from school or university.

• If we remember the ‘correct’ answers from the lecture material, and we recite these accurately at exam time, we get high grades.

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Between the two extremes are a variety of different learning styles

• At business school (or on degree courses with extensive laboratory work) there is an element of practical work to supplement the lectures.

• The case study methodology provides a simulation of real life analysis, but even here it is possible to see through the padding to the key information which can then be presented in the ‘correct’ way to demonstrate that you understood the lectures.

Business SchoolLecture based classes - Case study methodology

Mostly 'correct' answers

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Between the two extremes are a variety of different learning styles

• Once in the workplace, Consultants are engaged to provide in-company workshops where lecture input is supplemented by group exercises to illustrate key messages.

• No exams perhaps, and maybe even room for interpretation, but participants will still leave workshops with a good understanding (or at least a book!) of the ‘correct’ approach or solution which has been agreed beforehand with the companies Training & Development manager.



Executive Development (Consultant) WorkshopLectures + group exercises to illustrate key learning points

Usually proposing a 'correct ' solution or approach

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EIIL MasterclassInterviews with experienced managers -

Participant teams develop own 'body of knowledge' based on their own interpretation of interviews. Rarely any single 'correct' solution or approach


The EIIL Masterclasss fits between On-The-Job experience and normal Executive Development Programmes.

• International and conducted in English, each (two-day) workshop focuses on one leadership theme.

• Coaches assign teams a high level task

• There’s an introduction with a ‘positioning input’ or a ‘disclosure’ exercise to provide participants with a common language

• Then 4 or 5 observed interviews with selected experts from EIIL Network

• Facilitated interview reviews with ‘lecturettes’ by our coaches to clarify key content concepts, and to develop team’s interviewing process techniques

• Finally a summary of learning is captured by each team in the form of a set of guidelines on the workshop theme.

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The EIIL Masterclass is not for everyone. Some people (and this can be culture-dependent) prefer to get the book, listen to the lectures, and enjoy the fun during the exercises.

But for those who are prepared to work to extract great anecdotes from experienced practitioners, and to distil their own learning from these and compare them with the next senior’s experience; who are prepared to rapidly build a real team, and encourage them through uncertainty towards a consensus of high quality opinion, with little reassurance that they have found the ‘correct’ solution, we’ve found the learning is huge, and on many levels.

Designed to coach self-learning & efficient use of Networks to High Potentials in a safe environment

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Designed to coach self-learning & efficient use of Networks to High Potentials in a safe environment

‘….the real benefit is learning to work in uncertainty‘

Ralph Herbst, Bayer TechnologyServices

‘The concept is different from anything I've experienced elsewhere. In meeting people from different companies from across Europe it forced me to think about how other people do business and how different people and cultures approach the same problem .‘

Arjen Schulpen, Shell

‘This methodology is very practical and immediate – it is not formulaic learning from books, but comes across as good business practice backed up by solid experience.’

Jon Chambers, P&G

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