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A coup has taken place and content is no longer king. Content has been usurped and the new king in town is experience.
One of the significant developments for the training and development profession over the past 15 years has been the emergence of new approaches that extend the focus on learning beyond formal events such as classrooms, workshops and e-learning modules.
Let's take a trip down memory lane for a moment; all the way back to elementary school. Remember the excitement of taking field trips, where you would pile into a school bus and travel to a museum, historic landmark or other educational hotspot?
It’s a common scenario – participants groan when they hear, “Now we’re going to engage in a role-play.” Yet when a learning engagement is designed, and it comes to practicing new skills, this often includes role-play.
Imagine a typical course on a technical topic: Learners enter the room; sit for hours passively listening to an instructor slog through a slide-heavy, text-heavy, lecture-based course; then walk out with their heads spinning. It doesn’t have to be this...
Thirty years ago a training course was the principal, and often only, method used to help build workforce capability. Although our solutions are now moving beyond this way of thinking and acting, it is understandable why the “course mindset” emerged...
The millennial generation has adopted the slogan “you only live once,” or YOLO. This often mocked mantra represents this generation’s deep desire to dive in and experience life first-hand. A no-holds-barred approach to life, and learning.
Performance improvement professionals are naturally curious about how individuals learned their profession. How were they trained? Did they shadow a senior coworker, listen to lectures, take e-learning courses or jump into role-play activities? How has...
It’s often tempting to ask why the traditional corporate training classroom environment hasn’t changed in centuries —a traditional model of students at desks with an expert imparting knowledge (an industry standard).