Managerial skills feedback
After a few feedbacks from Chris and once we have finished the managerial skills course it´s time to give Chris our own feedbacks of it.
Along these weeks he has taught us many things about how to make a presentation, how to reach a good agreement in a negotiation or how to become a good leader.
We have learned for example that giving presentations we must be clear and concise and go directly to the point, focusing in three or four main ideas to move our audience from the point A (where they are) to the point B (where we want they’ll be). Also that in negotiations the best is to create value (increasing the pie) to have more things to distribute between the negotiating parties. And that if you want to be a great leader the most important thing is to focus on your team people and to try to make them feel comfortable.
Of course all of these things are important but somehow they are things that we have already known, therefore the most important thing of this course has been the way of giving it and how to explain these things. Always in simple and clear terms (such as we must do in presentations), providing a wealth of examples, and the most important of all by making that classes very entertaining and reaching the goal that nobody get bored in them.
All of this knowledge obviously will serve us in the future and in our future careers, when we will have to give a presentation, to do a negotiation or to lead a group of people, but if I had to stand out one thing of this course would be the way their classes have been taught, as i said before, these have been very dynamic and participatory. There has been some Monday morning in which Chris said us that we were like zombies, but he has always been able to encourage our participation with group activities, individual questions and allowing us to give our own opinion. In my particular case I’m a little shy and I don’t speak very much, but the fact that the class were so participative has done I have involved into this dynamic and participate a little more.
So I think that although Chris has taught us many things we have also taught something to him through our participation and different opinions.
Thank you Chris!!!