Greater Critical Thinking Skills Taught with New Methodology

Tulsa businessman/university instructor helping to develop good management skills in students and businesses, giving more confidence and control through Managemente.

Tulsa, OK (PRWEB) May 15, 2005 -- Tulsa businessman and university instructor Randy McClure has developed a knowledge transfer system focused on critical thinking. Rather than getting the right answers to questions, it focuses on getting the questions right.

The idea has created the best-of-thinking" process through knowledge transfer in a way that essentially facilitates the replication of best practices throughout a team or group. Applied in the business world, through his consulting practice, Managemente has provided owners and managers confidence in their firms level of performance, and comfort in their own level of control.

The system, named Managemente (raising management to the next level), is based on proven concepts from Marketing and Management, and begins with the learner being provided a series of results (answers), and knowledge is gained during the process of building the equations (questions). I give them (my students) the answers but the knowledge transfer takes place in their discovery and understanding of the equation. The best managers start with the deliverable in mind, and work their way backward into the functions which must occur to produce that deliverable."

If you think about managing from the perspective of an income statement, owner/managers see top line growth first, then expenses (people process and technology), and lastly the bottom line. Most managers concur that the bottom line improvement required is driven upward (on the statement) through people (new markets/customers), process (improved productivity), and technology (innovation). In this case Managemente would see the bottom line improvement as the deliverable. Then the discovery, and all that is involved in understanding the equation (people process and technology), creates opportunity for the top line growth needed to realize the deliverable.

Developed from the fear and frustration of low exam scores the system was first utilized as an experimental team-based learning guide for students to complete projects meant to stretch them, and get them extra credit. The results were astonishing. Students came up to me and told me they learned how to think more like their managers through this system than by traditional text and lecture methods."

"Going through this process is more than just learning the principles of management. It gave me the confidence to approach any situation, and know that I can handle it-even if I dont have all the details." Stated Trevor Mann, a student of McClures at Rogers State University.

Students are not the only ones to benefit from this methodology. Businesses can achieve the same or greater results if the goal is to increase productivity, reduce inefficiencies, or gain better control. Raising management to the next level will always affect the bottom line.

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