Kimberly Lee-Asonevich - The Real Feel Classroom: Classroom Activities That Test Theories

1. The Real Feel Classroom:
Classroom Activities That
Test Theories
Kimberly Lee-Asonevich
Mount Aloysius College

2. Objective
• Develop a classroom project
that provides real world
business skills enhancement to
meet employer’s needs.

3. Pre Planning for Course
•Develop business contacts
and negotiate a business
consulting project for the
course.

4. Class Project
Class worked with small candy
company in our local community.
Project charge:
Rebrand
Enhance Profits
Examine Product Lines
Presentation to Corporate
Management

5. Creating the Best Team
In every classroom or project we
need to build the team, but we
approach business with very little
understanding on how to create
the experience of team work or
how to develop an effective team.

6. Developing Team Via
Assessments
• The Enneagram
• Learning Styles Assessment
• Leadership Style Survey

7. The Enneagram
The Enneagram gives you a
practical personality profile for
yourself and others that prepares
one for the challenges that certain
types pose for you and maximize
your potential for success.

9. Learning Styles
Assessment

10. Leadership Style Survey

11. Authoritarian (Autocratic)
Provide clear expectations for what
needs to be done, when it should be
done, and how it should be done.
Strongly focused on both command
by the leader and control of the
followers.

12. Participative (Democratic)
Offer guidance to group members,
but they also participate in the group
and allow input from other group
members.
Participative leaders encourage
group members to participate but
retain the final say in the decision-
making process.

13. Delegative (Laissez Faire)
Offer little or no guidance to group
members and leave decision-making
up to group members.
While this style can be useful in
situation involving highly qualified
experts, it often leads to poorly
defined roles and a lack of
motivation

14. Administer the Assessments
Assessment Results Assessment Results
Personality Styles
1 Perfectionist
Leadership Style Survey
1. Authoritarian
2. Helper 2. Participative
3. Achiever 3. Delegative
4. Individualist
5. Investigator
6. Loyal Skeptic
7. Socializer
8. Challenger
9. Mediator
Learning Styles
1. Visual
2. Auditory
3. Kinesthetic

15. Now what do we do with the
results?

16. Establishing Teams
1. Develop teams by creating
teams with different
personality, learning, and
leadership styles.
2. Assignment of duties based
on assessements.

17. Example Assignment of Duties
1. Jill ( Socializer) branding and design
2. Sarah ( Challenger) pro forma and
accounting
3. Jacob ( Helper) assisted team leader with
facilitation
4. Katlyn ( Loyal Skeptic) team leader
(completing internship with candy
company)
5. Nidhi (Observer) operations/production

19. Conclusions
•For the students….
•For the candy company….
•For me……..