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5 Management Lessons From Group Projects At A B-School

Nov 23, 2017 | 4 minutes |

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The word “learning” has different a connotation for different people. Most leading b-schools have this concept of “peer-learning”, both formally and informally. And to incorporate that in the pedagogy, group assignments and projects are conducted. As fancy as it may sound, there is much more to it than what meets the eyes. To a person like me, who’s held managerial/mentoring roles in my previous organisation, group projects seemed like a piece of like. That was, of course, before I was actually a part of one. The class is divided into groups, the size of which may vary from 3 to 10 depending on the professor. And all you have to do is, discuss and present an assignment or a project together as a group. And to top it off, it is evaluative. Sounds pretty great? Well, I thought so too. In fact, my first impression of this methodology was that this would, perhaps, make our lives easier as there is ‘division of labour’ and should ideally lead to ‘continuous workflow’ (At least, that is what pure economics depicted!). Here are some of the key takeaways : To sum it up, I believe the creators of the idea of group projects were not really trying to make our life easier. They were trying to teach us much more than the subject/topic at hand. They were trying to teach us what we’ve come here to learn, the essence of management.