Times pokes fun at novelty financial management training
Allianz’s Underwriting Academy is using toy pigs to teach underwriters and other staff about financial management, the Times reports.
“Playing with fluffy pigs is not natural for people at Allianz. They're really quite a sober organisation,” said Paul Dunn, managing director of P3, the training company that runs the programme.
But he claims pigs help people remember 30% more than if they had spent the day looking at a PowerPoint presentation or dissecting spreadsheets.
Dunn claims people can learn the same basic concepts in a day that they would learn in a three-year management accounting degree.
Sian Tarbuck, who runs Allianz's Underwriting Academy is quoted as saying that the response to had been positive. “Finance can be a bit dry, but people felt that it had been brought to life,” she said.
