There is a need for MQ(Mentality Quotient). Just as we figured over time that there is a need for EQ (Emotional Quotient) similar to IQ.
These are being discovered and measured over a period of time to provide some kind of explanation to why certain organizations excelled in what they were doing. When IQs of the individuals were exceptional and are consistently same across many organizations, the difference in performance was attributed to the newly discovered or theorized EQ.
Can we say the same about MQ?
I was wondering whether anything has been done to teach such intelligence as part of acquiring education in the 21st century. Teaching psychology or studying psychology or any derivatives of the same won’t help. It has to be practiced or experienced.
When I came across the news segment on NBC’s Nightly News that covered all of these I was pleasantly surprised. A course had been designed where there was nothing taught from the books. It was designed to make doctors relate to their patients well (happens when processes take over human adaptation to the individual needs of patients). I theorized this to be an attempt to teach a little bit about EQ and MQ.
I welcome that. I wholeheartedly welcome that. But why wait till reaching a college level. Why not initiate such programs at middle school and high school levels? I am now very much excited at the prospects of QTIME learning getting wings to fly in 21st century.
It is essential to turn skills learned into better skills, knowledge acquired into better knowledge and when it comes to reducing workplace stress, violence and other unwanted workplace related issues taking over society in general, anyone would welcome such efforts.
The current methods of teaching are focused on teachers teaching their part and students learning their part and blame the process on failures of the system. Changing the process to address the failures in teaching need to pay close attention to the snowball effect that it would have when students take up work roles. Students do not have any clue why something needs be done in a particular way than the way they have been taught.
Tensions and conflicts arising out of such are not addressed adequately by companies who are focused more on surviving the business rather than paying attention to rising the standards of living for their employees in such a way to bring social harmony. They would gladly leave it law enforcement agencies to take care of it. When law enforcement agencies are blamed for not handling the crisis well, they would ask for more manpower. The agency will grow big and the snowballing effect will continue to make the governing big and the government to grow big. Big governments will become more accountable for public and in response to that more regulations will creep in.
A little bit effort and innovation at an early stage to detect and correct such snowballing effect will go a long way to reduce big governments, reduce over regulation and reduce waste in the form services that are unnecessary. All this is happening just because individuals getting education in the current form do not measure up to the businesses employing them.
All this would be possible if the essence of QTIME learning is promoted and accepted on a much wider basis and early in the learning stages. Education need to continue, but learning methods, learning framework, orchestration of learning need to change to accommodate and address the needs of changing workplace conditions and changing culture of societies.