For the past few days, I've had the pleasure of joining 27 superintendents from around the country for the third-annual Syngenta Business Institute in Winston-Salem, N.C. It's a program that leaves agronomy behind and focuses on issues such as financial management, employee motivation and effective negotiations, all taught by faculty from Wake Forest University's School of Business.
One of the most memorable experiments of the week is memorialized in the video above. During a discussion on feedback, what kind works and what doesn't, led by professor of organizational studies Sherry Moss, attendees were put through this task to give them a visual lesson on how positive and negative feedback impact employees. In this instance, Chuck Connolly, the superintendent at Greenville (S.C.) CC, serves as the target of this feedback as he tries to find a predetermined object in the room. A funny but effective exercise, even if it did require a little clean-up after the fact.
We've been providing real-time updates for this year's Syngenta Business Institute through our Twitter account (@GCM_Magazine), but you can also read a full report in the February issue of GCM.
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