Young people are often inadequately prepared to join the labour market. In response to the radical changes in technology that are sweeping through our economic, social and cultural lives, we need to develop new training methods capable of responding to the needs of modern companies.
Students are rarely encouraged to develop critical, out-of-the-box or creative thinking and school curricula do not teach them how to transform ideas into projects with tangible and measurable targets. As a result they find themselves unprepared to face the complexities of today's industrial reality.
To counter this deficiency we need to define and establish a new training perimeter within which young people can actively interact with both the academic and the industrial worlds.
One practical example of this is the Project & People Management School established by Comau in collaboration with Sacro Cuore University in Milan. The School brings the world of industry into universities through an international training programme in which participants get a chance to develop extensive management competences ranging from the ability to manage business and people to more specifically behavioural skills such as company living, relating to others, and time management.
In particular, the book relates the beginnings of the P&PM School, describing the needs and characteristics of the various players, focusing on typical learning contexts, analysing the proposed training setting and its structural and operational characteristics. The School's experience is recounted by various actors – Comau and University managers and teachers and the students themselves – and provides fascinating material for reflection along with models, architectures and formats that readers can transfer directly to their own organisations.
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