Business Analytic Mindset Skills: Learn Yours
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It's the business analytic mindset skills
Appropriately, ‘soft skills’ are emphasized in business education. But they clearly are not sufficient in today’s business environment. Analytic mindset skills are vital too, and often underappreciated.
As the cardinal on the left symbolizes, many business persons survive but certainly don’t thrive when faced with business tasks necessitating an analytic mindset. It isn’t their fault since most educational opportunities focus on remembering and understanding new business theories, concepts and best practices. But the analytic mindset starts with remembering and understanding and then applies, evaluates, creates new initiatives with those same business theories, concepts and best practices. The purpose of this website and courses is to help you build your analytic mindset skills, and build them so you can skillfully employ them. Please explore my growing website and I’ll help you identify with the cardinal on the right….playing in the snow rather than buried in it.
It's the hard(er) analytic skills too
...and the first step follows...
The First Step: It's the analytics mindset, NOT the math
‘Business math’ is a popular topic. There are courses, textbooks, and lots of focus on it. But having worked directly with thousands of business students I can assert: No, it is NOT the math. IT IS ABOUT LEARNING ANALYTICS…the analytics mindset.Â
Check out the following video highlighting the difference.Â
Website Features and Offerings
Posts are business analytic mindset lessons. I start with a news article, academic research study, or a textbook concept, turning it into an applied lesson…a lesson you can remember and, importantly, utilize. Contact me it you have a topic or news article of interest.
Courses follow popular business topics (e.g. statistics, financial accounting) but focus exclusively on helping you develop the business analytic mindset. I’m building courses f you’re looking for a specific ourse topic, contact me. I’m always building lessons and I can (at least) help by pointing you to the better resources.
Custom Courses are enjoyable to build. Contact me for a quick response. If I can’t help you, I can likely recommend others.Â
Tutoring. I accept a very limited number of financial accounting tutoring engagements, primarily at the MBA level.
MBA Application Coaching. I accept a very limited number of engagements to help write MBA applications.Â
Steven F. Orpurt, PhD
Prof O is a skilled instructor, having won teaching awards on three continents and at the undergraduate, masters of accounting, MBA, and Executive MBA levels. He worked four years for UNext.com, a startup developing high-end MBA courses with Stanford University, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Carnegie-Mellon University and London School of Economics. He developed and taught the first Pre-MBA course at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, building it into a success staple for Executive MBA’s. Having earned his PhD later in life than most, he has both extensive academic and non-academic work experiences (e.g. Portfolio Manager at Franklin Templeton mutual funds) that he draws on to build exceptional applied (useful!) learning lessons. One of his ongoing interests is studying metacognition research to incorporate state of knowledge best learning practices into his lessons (Explore several best learning habits below).Â
Metacognition: Learn to Learn Well
Prof O’s courses employ best learning design features.
Are you familiar with the best methods and habits to learn? For instance, do you highlight? If so, stop. There is a better way to learn. Do you interleave your learning efforts? All Prof O’s courses and posts employ best learning practices, supported by research, to help you learn better, faster.
Watch the quick video for two simple metacognition habits with immediate benefits for you.
…and note the short quiz at the end of the screencast. It is a metacognition strategy to help you retain your learning.
