These are notes on the learning and training process as experienced by the author in the corporate setting, and in the classroom. He has taught in the graduate school of business for more than 10 years, and recruiting and training staff and officers for more than 30 years.

1. Learning and Training Notes
Compilation of thoughts on
communication, training and learning

2. Challenges to training and
learning

3. Slow, little, or no learning at all

4. Observed in the classroom and
corporate world as a classroom
professor and corporate officer

5. Going back to the basic

6. What is learning/training?

7. It is the same as a
communication process

8. SR - Stimulus --Response

9. The process involves the transfer of a
learning content to the learner

10. The learner has a response – to retain
what has been taught and apply

11. Our rejoinder to corporate learners

12. Read, understand, reflect, act,
apply, and check

13. Change in the learner

14. From Peter Senge – Fifth Discipline

15. What is the fifth discipline?

16. Shared learning

17. What need to be changed to
have shared learning?
• Mental models
• Systemic thinking
• Personal mastery

18. Preconditions to learning

19. FAR
• Focus
• Attention
• Reverence

20. There is no learning when your cup is
full/overflowing

21. The learner must approach
learning with open mind - sunnao

22. Motivation of the learner – how
strong is the desire to learn?

23. Why do you need to learn more?
• To be promoted in a job
• To be competitive
• To be the best you can be
• To learn a new skill
• To increase your market value
• So that you will not be disciplined very often
• To get certification/diploma

24. The desire to learn must be as strong
as the desire to learn

25. You only learn what you teach
yourself

26. The instructor can only do so much;
the rest depends on the learner

27. The Eastern Model – the guru
apprentice relationship

28. The “Million Dollar Baby”

29. “The only voice you will hear is
my voice”

30. Adult learning

31. Pedagogy vs adrogyny

32. Instructors as facilitators

33. “I listen and I forget, I see and I
remember, I experience and I
understand” – Old Chinese saying

34. Effectiveness of teaching
methodologies
• Lectures - least
• Audio visual presentation – medium
• Experiential ; learning by
doing/participative - most

35. Old dictum to trainors
• Tell them what is to be done
• Explain how is to done
• Show them how to do it
• Let them do it
• Correct them how they did it

36. Value of assessment

37. What gets measured gets done
(is learned)

38. Learning objectives and assessment

39. Tests, evaluations, interviews,
follow - ups

40. You can not change the world if
you can not change the learner

41. Are you good?
• Trainor/instructor/facilitato
• Learner/apprentice?