ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an example of a "transitional" design as applied to management training. This design was first applied in September 1985 as an experiment at the Iristitut Superieur des Affaires at Jouy-en-Josas with a group of second-year students. The Sextant project was conceived within a multi-disciplinary team covering the main areas of management training. The Sextant project was organized around a number of basic principles and constraints and based upon a specific educational approach. The educational approach was organized along three main lines: the initial individual diagnosis, a learning co-management, and a monitoring of professional and personal development. The chapter shows how other aspects of maturity developed in response to various features of the transitional design of the experiment. It examines the relation to three areas of management where effectiveness is dependent on maturity: knowledge, expertise and hierarchy; jobs and companies; and relations with others and with oneself.
