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Challenges/needs
Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle is an internationally focused business school with 2100 students, 350 exchange students, 67 permanent faculty and 87 academic partners world-wide. It offers seven different degree programs & one of its areas of specialization is tourism as it is beautifully located on the Atlantic coast. Since the arrival of the Director Daniel Peyron, the school has doubled the number of students to become a major business school in the region.
The school puts a very strong emphasis on values such as tolerance and respect of individual and cultural differences. La Rochelle’s philosophy is to encourage students to take responsibility for their futures and to be define their own success, for themselves as individuals but also for the benefit of the wider community.
With this focus, the school already emphasizes personal development as part of the curriculum with several areas of expertise such as Languages, International Cultures and Personal Development. Having seen the benefit of focusing on personal development for student employability, Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle has decided to go one step forward incorporating Metizo into their ESC Masters Program and demonstrating that the school is prepared to be a leader in this pedagogical approach.
Solution
A Metizo Certification program has been launched for 225 students in the ESC Masters Program. They will have 30 hours of classroom teaching, in addition to tutorials over a two year period and they will prepare their Personal Enterprise Plan with support from both Metizo, academic directors and the career management team. They will also have contact with corporate alumni and at the end of the program they will be certified following a Metizo Certification interview held with internal and external assessors. Only those who are awarded the Metizo Certificate will graduate with their Masters.
Outcomes
Dr Taran Patel, Director of Studies of the ESC program of Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle is convinced that focusing on the personal development of business students is vital in times of the current economic crisis. She says “It is imperative that students learn to understand their own value systems and those of others around them. More precisely, students need to be able to evaluate the fit of lack thereof, between their own personal and professional values and those expected by companies that recruit them. In years to come, students might find their own value systems being tested, even challenged in light of the current economic crisis. We want our students to be ready to face this challenge. METIZO is our instrument of choice because it is an academically sound training program that takes the students through progressive stages of self reflection in order to help them understand themselves and the dynamic environments that they live in.“
This course allows students to use themselves & their situation as a real life example of personal & management development since a large percentage of MBA and EMBA students change their career orientation during their studies. The opportunity of doing this with other students in an educational process allows them to draw on the diversity of others experiences and ideas to develop their own careers.
