The need for a management learning that facilitates the development of Nigerian managers’ skills and ability to take action with regard to problems, prospect and challenges facing their organisations has been stressed by Ayodele Aderinwale, chairman of Business School Netherlands Nigeria (BSNN).
Aderinwale gave the charge at an alumni dinner in Lagos recently, where he also expressed concern about the state of managerial competence by practitioners in the country. ‘‘An improved level of managerial competence has become necessary in sync with the changing Nigeria,’’ he said, stating that the intent of the institution’s action learning is to contribute to higher education in management learning, facilitating the development of managers’ skills, knowledge, including research capabilities.
In response to the need to raise Nigerian leaders of business competence, Lere Baale, the chief executive officer of BSNN, said that Business School Netherlands aims to turn students into the business leaders of tomorrow by means of a high impact curriculum. According to him, “through the action learning paradigm at Business School Netherlands, managers learn by putting knowledge into practice, by experimenting and taking action,’’ he said.
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A recent survey of training providers declared Business School Netherlands (BSN) as the best provider of MBA training in the Netherlands. The programmes offered by Business School Netherlands Nigeria carry the intrinsic character of the Action Learning methodology and this has proven to be one of the critical factors resulting in the business school’s current position as the leading provider of MBA Studies, with a highly relevant approach to effective management development, according to BusinessDay findings.
In the Action Learning MBA, a learning situation is created in which managers explore and investigate together, with emphasis on asking the right questions, with the lecturers drawing on their experience to facilitate this process. This management education philosophy, which requires much effort from student and facilitator, goes beyond the traditional imparting and absorbing of knowledge.
To date, BSNN has twenty-three sets of MBA students in Ota and Abuja and over 400 participants on the two or three-day Action learning Management Development Programmes (also known as Masters’ Classes) and over 14 students on the six-month Management Competence Development Programme. BSN Nigeria’s vision is to be a global provider of excitingly different learning experiences that enable managers to learn faster than the prevailing rate of change.
