【View Point】It’s More Than an MBA 胜读MBA的俱乐部主席体验

It’s More Than an MBA

The club president role vs. graduate school.

英文原文发表于国际演讲会（头马）杂志《Toastmasters International》2019年12月刊 View Point 板块，作者为国际演讲会现任国际总裁（International President）Deepak Menon, DTM。
原文链接：https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2019/dec/its-more-than-an-mba

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I learned more in one year serving as club president than I did in the two years of completing my MBA,” says Deepak Gupta, former president of the Toastmasters Club of New Delhi. Some may laugh at that statement. How can you compare Toastmasters with a structured Master of Business Administration (MBA) program? But Gupta has a point. Toastmasters provides opportunities for growth that are not offered by many other educational institutions; Toastmasters prepares you for life.

我担任俱乐部主席一年所学的知识，比完成工商管理硕士（MBA）课程两年所学的要多。”新德里国际演讲俱乐部的前主席Deepak Gupta说。有些人可能会嘲笑这样的说法。您如何将Toastmasters与结构化的工商管理硕士（MBA）计划进行比较？但是Gupta有他的观点。Toastmasters 提供了许多其他教育机构所没有的成长机会；Toastmasters 为您的生活做准备。

Natalee McKenley, presently a District 84 area director (Central and Northern Florida, U.S.), is a former president of the Toasting 601 club in Jacksonville, Florida. She agrees the role of club president aligns well with an MBA curriculum.

Natalee McKenley，国际演讲会84大区的现任小区总监（美国中部和北佛罗里达州地区），是佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔Toasting 601俱乐部的前主席。她同意俱乐部主席的角色与MBA课程相当吻合。

“Some of the similarities include learning to prioritize and manage an ever-changing schedule,” she says. “The president’s role has been like serving as the group leader in various projects during my MBA studies. Learning skills like how to delegate, gather people, and execute as a team are crucial.”

“其中一些相似之处包括学习确定优先级和管理日新月异的时间表。”她说： “主席的角色就像在我的MBA学习期间在多个项目中担任团队领导一样。学习至关重要的技能例如如何授权、汇聚人力，以及团队协作。”

The president’s role has been like serving as a group leader in various projects during my MBA studies.”
—Natalee McKenley

“主席的角色就像在我的MBA学习期间担任各种项目的团队领导一样。”

——Natalee McKenley

“Most of all,” she adds, “is the need to constantly present! Like MBA studies, where project presentations are constant, I research and give speeches regularly in Toastmasters. I am in front of my peers every week, presenting some new information, gathering feedback, and executing on plans. I wish I knew about Toastmasters before I completed my degree. It would have made my classes a lot easier!”

她补充说：“最重要的是，持续不断地展现的需要！像MBA学习一样，项目介绍经常进行，我会在Toastmasters中定期进行主题研究并发表演讲。每周我都会在同行人面前，提供一些新信息，收集反馈并执行计划。我多希望我在完成学位之前早点了解到Toastmasters。那会使我的课程容易多了！”

The art of managing people and resources is the biggest challenge leaders face; Toastmasters is the laboratory that produces leaders who practice and perfect these skills.

管理人员和资源的艺术是领导者面临的最大挑战。Toastmasters 是培养领导者的试炼场，他们可以实践和完善这些技能。

These specific leadership and management skills cannot be learned elsewhere—skills such as motivating a member volunteer team; helping fulfill the club’s mission; enthusiastically implementing the Club Success Plan; and encouraging a club culture that inspires, motivates, and supports members and other volunteer leaders.

这些特定的领导和管理技能是无法从其他地方学到的——例如激励一个会员志愿者团队；帮助达成俱乐部的使命；充满热情地执行俱乐部成功计划；并鼓励一种以激发、鼓励和支持会员及其他志愿者领袖的俱乐部文化。

As the philosopher and writer George Santayana said, “The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” Toastmasters combines education with experience in a learn-by-doing format that effectively prepares us for life.

正如哲学家和作家乔治·桑塔亚那（George Santayana）所说：“教育的最大困难是要从想法中获得经验。”Toastmasters 以“ learn-by-doing边做边学”的方式将教育与经验结合起来，有效地为我们的生活做好了准备。