VIDEO- As part of a partnership with Challenges, Aurélie Dehling, who heads Kedge Business School's Grande Ecole program, details the lessons intended to train less trained managers. The school goes a long way in this process. It's counter-intuitive. While we keep talking about students who are wary of the business world, even of capitalism, Aurélie Dehling explains to us in this video produced in partnership with Challenges that employers find them "too smooth". Interesting, knowing that she leads Kedge Business School's Grande Ecole program. As a result, this management school has groomed said program to "engage them in concrete actions". The idea is to "move away from the posture of saying and announcement effects", to favor "doing it". No more speeches, place for action, for the concrete: "It takes fact to change things". And this, with two strongly claimed axes: diversity and commitment. Train “different” managers The objective is to train tomorrow's managers who are "different", with "good ideas". So of course management science is still on the agenda. But not only. Among the new courses, some are directly related to the objective of having an impact on the environment and the territory, such as the course in CSR decarbonization"and resilience". A new accounting course is also offered, the objective of which is to build a support system for associations and VSEs/SMEs in the territories around the campuses.

Public speaking becomes mandatory Second axis of the "grow by doing" posture, which can be translated as "growing by doing": Encourage students to think "differently", by confronting them with more disruptive and innovative ways of thinking. A cycle of conferences started in the fall of 2021, allowing students to listen to and confront "disruptive contemporary thinkers". The school also puts the package on public speaking, which becomes a compulsory subject, with an eloquence competition from the end of the first year. For the start of the 2022 school year, we will also find new lessons, such as "Thinking 2050" which will deal with a specific problem of the future, to "decode the world of tomorrow" and co-construct content on subjects such as mobility and society. There is also a "dark side" module whose objective is to exercise the critical spirit of students by showing them the "hidden side of companies". Rather breathtaking.