Comments on: Learning by doing http://smartmeetings.com.au/2006/10/31/learning-by-doing/ Occasional thoughts about meeting smarter not harder Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:13:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 by: Jim Belshaw http://smartmeetings.com.au/2006/10/31/learning-by-doing/#comment-8 Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:49:38 +0000 http://smartmeetings.com.au/2006/10/31/learning-by-doing/#comment-8 Noting the ToP comment, one of the interesting features of any well run training course is the way it teaches process skills over and beyond the immediate object of the course. Tom Schwarz (Kinnogene and also a ToP practioner) and I were talking about this during the week in the context of effective delegation. Many professionals are lousy delegators. If you want them to improve you have to give them the overall principles plus the required analytical job or task analysis skills. But all this falls down if the professional cannot communicate effectively. Okay, you can build this into the course. But the course itself, the way it is run, is also a communications experience. That is, there has to be a congruence between the way you approach the training and the objective of the training. Noting the ToP comment, one of the interesting features of any well run training course is the way it teaches process skills over and beyond the immediate object of the course.

Tom Schwarz (Kinnogene and also a ToP practioner) and I were talking about this during the week in the context of effective delegation.

Many professionals are lousy delegators. If you want them to improve you have to give them the overall principles plus the required analytical job or task analysis skills. But all this falls down if the professional cannot communicate effectively.

Okay, you can build this into the course. But the course itself, the way it is run, is also a communications experience. That is, there has to be a congruence between the way you approach the training and the objective of the training.

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