Management learning at the speed of life: Designing reflective, creative, and collaborative spaces for millenials

• Millenials face concentration, engagement, and socialization problems in learning.
• We address these problems through reflective, creative, and collaborative spaces.
• We report results from lectures in Canada, Turkey, and the UK over seven years.

This paper introduces the concept of “management learning at the speed of life” as a metaphor to inspire millenials. Millenials may face three major problems in relation to management learning: lack of concentration, lack of engagement, and lack of socialization. Management learning at the speed of life addresses these potential problems through three dimensions: reflective, creative, and collaborative learning. This paper illustrates the benefits of reflective, creative, and collaborative spaces for millenials using practices from leadership and personal development courses that were offered over seven years in Canada, Turkey, and the UK. These courses incorporated the latest technology that brought the course activities up to the speed of life.