Managerial skills learnt in the classroom can never match those learnt from experience

I am a manager with no college education. I am 50 and have been in management for about 12 years. Over the years I have learnt a wealth of information through the daily experience. I have also witnessed very poor decisions made by very inexperienced managers with a full college degrees. Experience is key.

Hi I would be so happy to start a conversation on the topic "Managerial skills learnt in the classroom can never match those learnt from experience"

It is a true statement since what ever you study in the class room they are only theoretical when the time comes to face the world it would be so different. Only experience can show you the real world.

Firstly, I want to say this is a very good topic of discussion.

Managerial skills learned in the classroom can never match those learned from experience.

Both have different scenarios in their own way. If we talk about the classroom this gives us the theoretical knowledge that provides us a framework for any context. This is also an essential part. Because we have been doing this from our schools, attending classes. In college also we are attending lectures. So from this attending things what actually we are doing. We are getting knowledge about a particular thing.

But real-world experience comes through the experience. It teaches us what actually works in the corporate world, and how to make good or proper decisions under pressure. We face a lot of challenges over there and from this, we get to know, how to get over those challenges and find many ways to do that task. So life experience is totally different from the classroom, how we actually work at our actual work site, how we behave with others, and how we handle all the situations in the corporate world.

In my opinion classroom teaches how and when to apply managerial theory in the real world.

Well, theory is a part of the classroom and experience can only be achieved by applying and experimenting on those theories in real workplace, hence both are essential for making a better decision in the workplace while facing any issues.

Managerial skill is something that we cannot learn by just reading book. In class room a mere lecture is given which helps us to visualize the thing and circumstances with our close eyes. But the real scenario is just different from the way we think. So in order to gain proper managerial things we should in fact try it out in the practical way. For this is the only way to groom ourselves in the right path. For eg: nowadays each and every recruiter look for experienced personal for their company, this is because they want their employees to be ready to whatsoever challenges on their own will which will add to the reputation and goodwill of their company. Hence according to me every knowledge that we have gained should have the practical implementation. For nowadays it works more then the managerial skill that we get in classrooms.

Hello everyone,

As we all have learned from our school time that experience is the best teacher, the rule here apply quite perfectly. No one is born manager, is it like in a managers house there will born another one or in a family of doctors the child born is a doctor. No is the answer. Child learn from what they see from their childhood. Coming back to managerial skills no one can learn them, its the thing that comes from practice and live field experience. Managerial skills learned in schools are just theory part but the practical knowledge which lead us to a way to success come from experience.

I won't accept that "managerial skills learnt in the classroom never match those learnt from experience". The skills learnt in the classroom are basic fundamentals and "they are the first best experience that we face". Definitely there will be a match, but on the analytical ability of the person he use to analyse the situation based on the classroom learnt skills with experience.

Yes, I agree with the fact that managerial skills learnt in class cannot match with those learnt from experience. The skills we learn in class give us a foundation and help us to think and apply those skills in real life. But the skills we learn from experience are of utmost importance and are not taught in any institutions, we get to know about it from experiences only. The skills learnt from experience include leadership quality, problem-solving skills and mindset to get the job done and the skills are used in every part of our life. So, both skill have their importance and we can neglect any skill as both are linked to each other.

Yes, I agree that Classroom knowledge is the base for the corporate job and it is essential to know the base of corporate, it gives us the courage to handle critical situations. We may become the best leaders by experience.

Managerial can be learn only by experience because in classroom you only learn theory. And in company's you require much experience, leadership quality, knowledge, intraction with the people or how to handle the situation, that can only be learn by when you will go into field and if you will not get experience you will mugged up everything.