Once again, I'm posting from the road. This time, I'm teaching at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Organization Management program at the University of Notre Dame. This is the last year that the Midwest Institute will be held at Notre Dame. It will move next year to the Fluno Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. I'm glad I had the opportunity to visit Notre Dame this week. It is an impressive campus, and its graduates are justifiably proud of the place. I even went to the football stadium on a brief tour, and learned a fair bit about Notre Dame football history.
I'm also pleased to have this first opportunity to teach at Institute, something I've wanted to do for many years. I have been very impressed by the quality of the participants in the program, although it didn't surprise me to be working with some talented people. Institute definitely has a culture all its own, a genuine sense of community among its long-time participants, as well as a strong impulse to learn from their instructors and each other. In this sense, it does represent a reasonably significant departure from the more traditional association conferences at which I usually speak. While each of those conferences brings something unique to the table, it's hard to compete with the rich atmosphere of learning and campus setting that Institute can provide.
I'm delighted to be here, although my schedule does not permit my full engagement in the experience. I am also teaching at the Northeast Institute at Villanova in early August, and I hope to be able to spend more time there. So, I encourage you to check out the Institute program and see how it fits with your learning and development needs!
P.S. I'll try to write more about my Institute experience once it's over. Tonight, however, I'm pretty tired!
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