Learning to Play Business Golf

Paper Summary:

This paper explores the concept of business golf and its role in improving business relationships. The paper determines the steps that the writer would need to take to learn to play business golf and examines the potential outcomes and benefits of learning business golf. The paper focuses on the steps that the writer has undertaken in this project. An annotated bibliography is included with the paper.

Table of Contents:
What Is My Goal For This Project?
How Did I Choose A Topic For This Project?
What Methods Will I Use To Achieve The Goal?
What Is My Learning Style, And How Might My Work On This Project Influence It?
How Will I Learn To Play Golf?
How Does This Kind Of Learning Fit My Learning Style?
What Is Business Golf And How Will It Help My Business?
Is There A Downside To Playing Golf To Acquire Clients?
When Will I Feel Comfortable Bringing Clients On The Course And Asking For Their Business?
What Do I Know About The Basic Skills Of Selling Outside The Office? How Have I Learned To Acquire These Skills?
What Outcomes Have I Realized?

From the Paper:

"Probably the most important thing I learned through this exercise was about learning itself. Through most of my educational experience, I have only been exposed to a handful of learning methods. While I have excelled at learning using those methods, I have often wondered why I have never been able to learn certain other skills. For me to have a better understanding of why some learning is easy and other learning is more difficult is a valuable tool for helping to approach the issue of learning. I can look at acquiring a golf swing, selling to a customer, or honing my own 'mental game' and see that I must learn these in different ways that I would learn, say, corporate finance. That I now have a sense of how learning is done, and have the experience of learning in ways unfamiliar to me, I can now apply that knowledge of new ways of learning to the acquisition of all manner of skills. For me, this is the most important outcome from the entire exercise."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Duke, Scot. (2008) Business Golf Investment. IBGS. Retrieved August 1, 2008 from http://innovativebusinessgolf.com/2008/06/23/business-golf-investment/
• Armstrong, Thomas. (2000). Multiple Intelligences. Thomas Armstrong. Retrieved August 1, 2008 from http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm
• Peter, Frank. (2008) Learn How to Play Golf. LearnAboutGolf.com. Retrieved August 2, 2008 from http://www.learnaboutgolf.com/beginner/beginner.html
• Anderson, Judy. (1998) The Mental Game of Golf and Business. Long Island Business News. Retrieved August 3, 2008 from http://www.bizgolf.com/libn398.htm
• Foust, Dean. (2002). Golf with a Purpose. Business Week. Retrieved August 3, 2008 from http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_46/b3808617.htm

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