In this video I want to talk to you
about learning in business school or
continue on in this series
but I want to talk to you about the role
that other students
play that the role that students sitting
beside you in the chairs in your
business school courses play
in your learning and education. Well to
start with
you're all in this together okay
business school can be very demanding it
can be
challenging in terms of the work but uh
the time
that it requires and the dedication to
it uh
having other people in similar positions
from different backgrounds and things
like that all going through the thing
together
it provides a level of camaraderie, a
level of support,
these people not only work through the
courses together they become friends,
they spend time outside of class
together, they're they can
celebrate together commiserate together,
they can develop common goals
things like that, so uh once again the
camaraderie is huge
and in that way they can also provide a
level of motivation.
Okay. There's an aspect of competition in
business school
obviously right there there's a lot of
alpha types that
uh enter the business school uh programs
and
and they're very competitive in nature
right they they want to outperform the
person beside them
and when you have high qualities very
diligent hard working students beside
you
who are going to perform well who have
already have a wealth of acquired
knowledge but also
um are going to acquire a lot of
knowledge and
expand upon their abilities their
knowledge base every
expand themselves as a person in
business school I would hope or think
uh that's going to motivate you as well
to to see this happening to others that
you are going to be part of that as well,
right, groups that you put together
almost always assimilate to
each other, right, as long as they stay
together as a group you start to see
common characteristics
and a common thread there that you'll
see about the the the striving for
success
again is a common level of motivation
that that permeates throughout.
Okay. And then lastly
having a diverse student body
not just ethnically or demographically
diverse
but diverse in in terms of thought
process,
experience background, things like that,
that adds to the collective knowledge
base that is getting disseminated
throughout the classroom.
You know there's one it's not just
one-way traffic from the textbook and
the professor
lecturing on textbook or research or
other notes or or just reading case
studies
it's how you interact with that material
how
your fellow students interact with that
material the questions that they
ask when you're on group projects
because most work in
in business schools have some element of
group project or group work to it
how you interact with those other
students hearing their opinions, seeing
their perspective,
that type of thing, it all has a major
effect on
your learning as part of the program.
Now one thing I'll say about this in
terms of talking about in other videos
we talk about the
role you know or excuse me we talk about
the quality of business schools and
and things like that and one of the
aspects we talk about is the quality of
student coming into the program that is
students who have shown a level of
diligence through their GPA and test
scores and things like that.
Well what we do know is that
oftentimes standardized testing
and your grade point average is not
always an extremely accurate reflection
of your ability or
your intellect or even your acquired
knowledge, okay,
but it does show your diligence right it
shows the extent to which you are
willing
and or able uh at a particular time to
prepare
for your courses to undertake the level
of work necessary.
So generally you're going to have in
particularly reputable business programs
and things like that very diligent
students students who have done
well and followed the procedure and
prepared well for examinations and
things like that
to have a good grade point average
and things like that,
okay uh you're also going to have smart
individuals individuals who have
a strong intellect a strong ability to
learn
and the other element of smart the the
ability
uh the a large amount of acquired
knowledge, so
you can think of it in terms of that you
know so that's going to
expand the definition of what is a good
student a smart student in terms of
learn knowledge ability to learn
other elements of smart such as the
ability to
recognize emotions and others are
emotional intelligence,
and then diligence how hard you're going
to work your work ethic or your
dedication
to your learning or the program or
whatever you're pursuing
collectively. All of those aspects of a
student
just reinforce the effects that these
students have
on you and your learning within the
business school or the business program.