Impact teaching is the new out-of-the-box thinking

Written by Dipl. Ing. MBA Ursula Teubert

Our educational system is focussed on teaching content and analytical thinking. Out-of-the-box thinking is a first step discovering our brains’ capacities and performances. Impact teaching goes further, realizing how to overcome our thinking, collaborating and solution finding habits

Referring to the Growing Skills Outlook listed by the World Economic Forum, impact teaching covers Growing skills 1,2,3,5,6,8,9,10 (see image by WEF). So impact teaching is spot-on trends to integrate students into economic life.

Impact teaching seeks to teach students in-depth expertise while linking this very expertise to the active knowledge and daily life of each student. With the objective to find new solutions, making students become active problem solvers and innovators. Thinking methods and thinking agility as well as theatre training support this holistic learning process.

Impact teaching is conceived as a group learning & intelligence process. So it makes it possible to integrate expert knowledge including expert intuition and enrich the learning and exploration of new or future realizations or existences.

When trained through longer modules (30h or more), it is possible to achieve self-energizing creative, entrepreneurial, dynamics. Here theatre methods can be an additional energy booster.

To regulate and canalize the creative energy, a systemic regard - while changing focus and point of view - on settings and business cases can be the tool of choice. This helps pushing the students to envision the whole picture and the responsibility they can take over.

First results training at Institute for Competitive Intelligence – Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving – and at University of Sorbonne – Marketing and Innovation Leadership – show encouraging results.