When I meet young folks for informational interviews (and with a daughter whose class just graduated college, there are a lot of them!), I’m often asked about what I studied to move ahead in my career. I usually tell them that the most important class I ever took was Educational Psychology. Ed Psych, as we called it, is about how people learn. Sure, you learn more about how that process occurs in early childhood than adulthood, but Piaget and Bloom aside, you learn quite a bit about motivation (and motivating) and how to move people’s thought processes forward.
What is sales if not education? What is management if not, at its core, motivation? EdPsych laid the foundation for my management abilities and helped me understand a lot of the great business writing I read later on.
I’m not suggesting you run right out and read a textbook, but I am suggesting that maybe applying Bloom’s Taxonomy is just as valuable to business as it is to the classroom.
Consult Keith 