[Park Sook-hee Teaching Method Insights] The lecture hall is another smal...

When people gather, the lecture hall also has roles, relationships, and cultures

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[Columnist Park Sook-hee, Korea Lecturer News] When asked, "What kind of space is a lecture hall?" most of the answers will be the same. It is a place where instructors pass knowledge and learners sit and listen. It is a conventional wisdom that is too familiar to us. However, an instructor should break this conventional wisdom first.

Not long ago, I had to attend a lecture at a company for eight hours. I arrived an hour early, got ready, and waited for my staff. The weight of one or two learners' facial expressions, posture, and silence weighed on the atmosphere of the lecture hall. Even before the start of the lecture, I was even worried about how to solve this long period of time. I could clearly feel it throughout the lecture. The company's vertical and rigid organizational culture was directly embedded in the lecture hall. Each of the employees' facial expressions, posture, and attitude toward their colleagues told the company's energy.

I realized that day. The lecture hall is not just a place where education takes place. It is a miniature version of an organization, and it is another small organization in itself.

When it comes to organizations, most people think of companies or organizations. However, an organization is not a concept that only applies to companies. An organization is a community in which people with common goals gather and interact. If the company's goal is to achieve performance, the goal in the lecture hall is to learn together in the same time under the same topic and to provide a solution that can be executed in the field. Where communication and interaction continue to take place between instructors and learners, and between learners and learners. That is the lecture hall. In the light of this definition, the lecture hall meets exactly all the conditions of the organization.

In fact, when people gather, the nature of the organization automatically appears. Just as a company has a role by department, roles are naturally divided in the lecture hall after only an hour. Those who actively present and ask questions, those who listen quietly, those who save the atmosphere, and those who calm the atmosphere. Each place is created without anyone ordering it. Relationship dynamics also take place. When an instructor builds a good rapport and starts a lecture, learners are conscious, stimulated, and encouraged each other. Culture is also formed. Some lecture halls have free questions, and others are dominated by silence. Even the same person behaves differently depending on the lecture hall.

There are times when the person in charge of education asks like this during a lecture. "How is the atmosphere today, instructor? Are you participating well?" This question itself is interesting. The person in charge knows it. Even if they are employees of the same company, each lecture hall has a different atmosphere. Some lectures are alive and others are dead. What makes the difference is the operation result of a small organization called lecture halls.

There is also the opposite case. It was a day when office workers and field workers were intentionally mixed and grouped into one team at a corporate workshop. I hoped that the two jobs that we rarely encounter would meet here at least. At first, I couldn't even make eye contact well. However, as discussions and teamwork activities continued, the bar in my mind gradually opened up. At the last speech, a female on-site employee said to the deputy manager of the office. "I didn't know because I was just greeting you in the hallway, but I found out that you were not too far away to come closer." The deputy manager also replied. "I never thought Mrs. Lee was such an active person." The beginning was a scattered individual, but the end was a connected community.

The lecture site is full of such scenes. At the end of a lecture, learners who were unfamiliar with the situation requested to take a picture together. A change in which conflicting departments begin to connect only after a lecture. A scene in which employees of public institutions voluntarily suggest follow-up meetings. Instructors realize such a lecture hall once they experience it. The fact that lectures are not delivered, but an organization operation.

Columnist Profile

Columnist Park Sook-hee received a doctorate in education from Dongui University. He is working as a teaching method expert, writer, content planner, personal career designer, and creator. He works in education, coaching, and consulting for change and value creation of individuals and organizations. It provides achievement experiences by marketing knowledge and experiences to individuals who dream of corporate HRD education and consulting, knowledge start-up, and career development, such as organizational revitalization and organizational culture.

Currently, under the mission of a company that shares more value, helps to grow more, and helps to succeed more, it is practicing sincere value in the educational field.

He is attending major conglomerates and public institutions such as Samsung, Hyundai, Lotte, Kolon, Hanwha, and Volvo, and has books such as "Active Class," "The Age in which Experience, Technology, and Story Are Money, Knowledge Management Leadership," "Life Changing Words Habits," "Kkondae Talpy Leadership," and "30 Secrets of Someone Who's Unknowingly Attractive."

It is publishing a column called [Park Sook-hee's Teaching Law Insight] based on its know-how, which has been called a "teaching law expert" and "instructor of instructors" by developing Korea's first activity teaching method program and applying for the trademark of the Korean Intellectual Property Office.

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