3. • Continue to build trust and relationship within group
• Understand how stories build trust
• Better understand how you learn and process information
• Increased understanding of how others learn and process information –
in order to create best group results
• Kolb Learning Styles Inventory
4. When the group moves out of the gathering (forming) stage and into
chaos (storming)……. https://youtu.be/tEMYtvgLEA8
5. Overcoming Chaos
• Listening Genuinely and Generously and BuildingTrust
• Storytelling creates the opportunity to find commonalities despite our differences.
• Builds empathy, which opens the door to finding solutions that work.
“We cannot hate a person whose story we know.” – Margaret Wheatly
9. How Do WeWorkTogether?
Learning Styles Inventory – An Overview
by David Kolb
• Designed to assess how individuals receive and interpret information, especially as
gained through experience and experiential learning.
• Research supported
• Simple to complete
• “Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of
experience.” – David Kolb
11. When Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory is useful
and appropriate
• Gaining appreciation for diversity
• Identifying different approaches for different individuals and different ways to
receive and interpret information and experience
• Promoting atmosphere of greater appreciation for differences among learners
• Gaining insight into one’s own way of learning through experience
• Gaining insight into OTHERS’ ways of learning through experience
• Helping groups better understand collaboration and using strengths of participants
12. When Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory is Not
Useful or Appropriate
• Predicting particular behaviors or predicting performance
• Categorizing individuals, as we are all able to operate in many learning ways
• Using the inventory for selection criteria for jobs, special classes, etc…
• Using the inventory as a personality assessment – this is not a
“replacement” assessment for tools such as Myers-Briggs
13. The Learning Styles Inventory
• Handout – Learning/Thinking/Working Styles Inventory
• To describe your natural strengths NOT evaluate them
• Rank each set of four words using 4,3,2,1 where
• 4 = MOST like you
• 1 = LEAST like you
17. On average, most people
take in information via
Concrete Experience
HowWeTake in
Information
Experiences
Thinking
18. On average, most people
USE information via
Active Experimentation
HowWe Use
Information
Doing
Reflecting
19. Percentage of the
population that falls
into each quadrant
TheWhole
Picture
Concrete Experience
Active Experimentation Reflective Observation
Abstract Conceptualization
20. Learn better when
provided with “hands-on”
experiences
Learn better when
provided with practical
applications of concepts
and theories
Learn better when
allowed to observe
and collect a wide
range of information
Learn better when
presented with sound
logical theories to
consider
Image courtesy of Baker University
23. Now What?
• Working with others – See Handout
• Discussion: In pairs, think of a conflict situation where knowing your
learning style and that of the other person might have helped the outcome.
• Going Forward: How might knowing the learning/thinking styles of yourself
and other people impact you as a leader?