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Learn essential rules and strategies for success in MBE, including time management, study workload, quality of work, and active learning methods. Embrace a proactive approach to enhance your MBE experience.
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Getting started 3 October 2012
rules for mbe • Be early for every commitment • Late arrivals waste everyone’s time • Time is this year’s currency • Lateness is poor business practice • You are studying business excellence! • Being late shows a lack of respect • Treat every commitment as though it was for your next Chief Executive Officer
rules for mbe • Get involved in your studies • Ask questions • Speak out • Challenge • No private questions at the end of the class • Colleagues do not benefit from your question or the answer • Chinese proverb • He who asks is a fool for 5 minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever
MBE learning environment • IDEA teams • Blogging • Feedforward
Book purchase • Each module has a reading list • Some books are recommended for purchase • The only essential purchase is: • EFQM Excellence Model • ISBN: 978-90-5236-501-5 • Purchased through EFQM online bookshop
Quality of written work • See MBE homepage – Learning environment • Reminder • All written work submitted for assessment is checked for plagiarism
Time management • You cannot manage time • Everyone has 168 hours per week • It Is how you manage yourself that matters • Differentiate between what is urgent and what is important
Study workload • Project submission is 47 weeks from tomorrow, 4th October, at 4 pm on 29 August 2013
reading • DO NOT READ!! • Without a purpose, a question (written down) • Without a note book and a pen • READ CRITICALLY • Why should you accept what the writer has written? • Do all authors write the same thing? • What are the differences? • What are the trends? • WHAT IS YOUR ANALYSIS? • 70% of all the marks that you receive are for analysis.