Management Insights

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Management 101: Tips and Techniques to Get Real and Engaged Students with today’s guest, Lauren DeGeorge, from the University of Central Florida. Be the class your students want to attend every week by learning how to engage with them using fun and creative activities and videos. In this podcast, we’ll discuss strategies to make you their favorite Management teacher.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Best Practices for Planning and Executing A Short-Term Study Abroad Program with today’s guest, Dr. Aruna Chandra, from Indiana State University. In this podcast, we focus on the back end of designing a program in terms of planning and execution that involve setting up the business and cultural visits along with arranging the logistics of the group visit to ensure safe/ adequate lodging and to and in-country transportation.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Designing Short-term Study Abroad Programs with today’s guest, Dr. Aruna Chandra from Indiana State University. In this podcast, we focus on the front end of the short-term study abroad program in terms of developing a theme and building a for-credit special topics course around that theme to provide context for the student learning experience.  Aruna also shares how to market the program to a wide array of majors on campus and ways to help with affordability along with university support of these programs.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Maximizing Pedagogy for On-campus and Online Courses with today’s guest, Elina Ibrayeva from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In this podcast, we discuss effective course design for on-campus and online courses, including several best teaching practices identified by the science of learning (use of frameworks, storehouse vs. snakeskin model of learning, application, transfer of learning, multimedia, repeated practice, and integration). 

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Three Ways to Engage and Enrich Your Principles of Management Course with today’s guest, Elina Ibrayeva from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In this podcast, we discuss three ways to enrich your principles of management course.   Elina will share opportunities for creating a learning community, learning from successful alumni, and self-reflection writing assignments.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Make teamwork easier with facilitation skills with today’s guest, Suzanne de Janasz from George Mason University. Few students complete a degree program without a few team projects…and when they’re assigned, you can hear the class’s collective sigh.  Teach them how to facilitate teams—and they’ll have better experiences in school…and in the workplace!

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Using Project-Based Learning Strategies to teach Entrepreneurship with today's guest, Chéri Phillips from Lipscomb University. Teaching Entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be an uneventful exercise of theoretical aspirations.  In fact, it can be an attractive offering that leads students to major in business/ business management.  We discuss using project-based learning strategies to actively engage business majors and undecideds in the business department.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on The Secret to Getting the Best from Your Employees with today’s guest, Ryan Gottfredson from California State University Fullerton. In this podcast, we challenge you to be a courageous leader so that you can get the very best from the people you lead and work with.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Setting and Maintaining Expectations with today’s guest, Nick Prince from the University of Wyoming. When a professor sets proper expectations for their students the entire course goes better for students and the professor. This podcast discusses some of the key elements of setting and maintaining expectations in your courses and gives listeners actionable items they can think about as they develop their courses.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on A Roadmap for Effectively Flipping Your Class with today’s guest,  Buffie Schmidt from the University of South Carolina. Flipping, is a love or hate term in education. It is a popular topic, yet a seemingly elusive pedagogical approach. Can you use Flipping to gain more time in the classroom while increasing student outcomes and engagement? Buffie Schmidt, a Lecturer of Management from the Darla Moore School of Business, has been flipping her classes and holding workshops on the pedagogical approach for over a decade. If you are wondering where to begin, what options exist, or precisely what to do and what to avoid, listen as Buffie lays out a simple framework and provides detailed lists of options for each step in the flipping process.