{"id":8348,"date":"2018-11-19T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klasmann-deilmann.com\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2024-10-09T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T08:32:52","slug":"making-the-same-decisions-as-managers-at-the-age-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klasmann-deilmann.com\/en\/making-the-same-decisions-as-managers-at-the-age-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the same decisions as managers at the age of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

School pupils enjoy business roleplay game<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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What decisions do managers have to take on a daily basis, and why? For a week, pupils at the Windthorst-Gymnasium<\/a> secondary school in Meppen got to taste what this responsibility feels like. At our Innovation Center in Geeste, they took part in the Management Information Game (MIG) under the guidance of a Lower Saxony institute that promotes business and commerce education. This provided an opportunity to get to grips with economic issues, including more complex matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pupils took notes eagerly when educational expert Thomas K\u00fchn of Bildungswerk der Nieders\u00e4chsischen Wirtschaft gGmbH (BNW)<\/a> announced growth prospects for the next quarter. He mentioned wage developments in the industry, adding that higher fuel prices had meant a 5% increase in transport costs. These parameters would have to be factored in by the Year 11 youngsters as they tackled the challenge they were set on the second day of the Management Information Game (MIG): prepare a bid involving a new product for a fictitious electronics store. This outlet has offered to be the exclusive distributor selling this newly developed product, but this is attached to a number of demands. So the objective was clear \u2013 and three competing teams got to work.<\/p>\n

The point of the Management Information Game is for pupils to explore the multiple interactions between individual companies and the wider economy. In brief talks, they are given input on macro- and microeconomic issues, before they apply this knowledge in group work and have a go at being corporate decision-makers themselves.<\/p>\n

\"\"And, on the evening of the fourth day of a really demanding week, the pupils had to prove they were up to this role. In front of an audience of around 70 people, each group presented its product. The audience, consisting of the pupils\u2019 parents and representatives of Klasmann-Deilmann, Meppen\u2019s Rotary Club<\/a>, the industrial employers\u2019 association (IAV)<\/a> for Osnabr\u00fcck, Emsland and Bentheim county, and the pupils\u2019 own school, represented the \u2018electronics store\u2019. At the end, they all voted to determine a winner \u2013 i.e. the business that was awarded the contract.<\/p>\n

Participant Vincent Kreutzmann was interviewed. He said, \u201cI was really nervous about speaking in front of so many people, most of whom I don\u2019t know and all of whom are much older than me. It\u2019s a great opportunity to grow and overcome one\u2019s fears. I answered lots of questions from the audience, and thanks to the group I was well-prepared for this.\u201d The 16-year-old \u2018CEO\u2019 of his \u2018company\u2019 added: \u201cThis gave me enough background knowledge to react spontaneously when I needed to.\u201d And Celina Nedow commented: \u201cEveryone played a different role and we were all equally important. This made the teamwork much more intensive and closer to the real world than it often is at school.\u201d<\/p>\n

The change of learning environment was also an important experience for the pupils. \u201cIt was interesting to see a company building from the inside. It gives you an idea of what life will be like later on,\u201d said Sophie Steppuhn. Gesa-Marie Anneken added: \u201cAt school, work on the project would not have been so full-on. You\u2019re often distracted there, but here we also got to see a real workplace for ourselves.\u201d Kevin Johnson agreed: \u201cIt makes a big difference to be in a setting just right for the MIG. And we also had to plan and organise all aspects of the group work ourselves. Everything had to be coordinated, including the presentation. At school that\u2019s usually the teacher\u2019s job.\u201d<\/p>\n

This inside look at the business and corporate world may also provide a nudge careers-wise. Hannah Sch\u00e4rich remarked: \u201cI\u2019ve always said I can\u2019t see myself working in an office. But I was in charge of crunching the numbers and suddenly noticed it isn\u2019t at all dreary \u2013 now I think it would suit me really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, the idea isn\u2019t to get all the students doing business degrees later on. But it\u2019s important that they understand how the world of commerce works. Now when they read the newspaper they can relate to these things better,\u201d said Daniel Albers, Business Studies teacher at Windthorst-Gymnasium. \u201cBusiness Studies is a fairly new school subject here in Lower Saxony. The MIG complements regular classes very well because it\u2019s much easier for the pupils to appreciate complex business and economic issues through their own experience.\u00a0 They also had to make a presentation, present themselves in front of a big audience, and draw up findings quite independently \u2013 which is exactly what we want, namely to help each pupil become more self-sufficient as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klasmann-Deilmann has already hosted MIG events several times, most recently in the summer of 2014. \u201cOnce our construction project was complete and the new premises in our Innovation Center in Geeste opened up brand-new possibilities, we definitely knew we wanted to support the Management Information Game again,\u201d said Moritz B\u00f6cking, Managing Director of Klasmann-Deilmann GmbH. \u201cOur Academy, which forms the heart of our Innovation Center, is a place of learning \u2013 and that applies to us, too. So we\u2019re delighted that, working with schools, we can provide a learning environment for school pupils as well. These youngsters are tomorrow\u2019s talent pool. They\u2019re our future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The week-long event was sponsored by Meppen\u2019s Rotary Club. The pupils received additional knowledge input provided by experts from various companies in the region, including health insurance provider Barmer Meppen, corporate communications agency david uk, a bank (Emsl\u00e4ndische Volksbank) and tax consultants Heinrich von Basum.<\/p>\n

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