Over the past year I'm consistently asked to answer the question, "what is your overall leadership development philosophy?" I thought it would be helpful to put pen to paper and blog my answer. Our experience over the past 10 years working with thousands of senior...
Over the past ten years we've had the opportunity to work with well 1,000+ executives and CEOs, focused on helping them becoming better leaders, strategists, and visionaries. In that time I've seen the aftermath of many failed leadership development initiatives, that we've been called in...
Adult Experiential Learning Cycle Experiencing - designed to generate individual data from one or more of the senses (hear, smell, taste, see, touch), thinking (interpreting, judging, conclusions, assumptions – based on past experience i.e. stored information), action (verbal and nonverbal), wanting or intending, feeling (positive/negative affective or...
What Entrenches Learning? Modeling – model what world-class practitioners do Immersion – immerse myself completely in the learning Spaced Repetition – schedule regular follow-up [this is one of the more critical pieces as our research at ViRTUS has shown that spaced repetition is the critical stage in shifting...
The Five Stages of Learning: Unconscious incompetence – I don’t know what I don’t know Conscious incompetence – I know what I don’t know Conscious competence – I know what I know Unconscious competence – I don’t know what I know Reflective or enlightened competence – I am aware that...
Interactive Business Learning Experiences™ Interactive Business Learning Experiences™ can best be described as a process of making generalizations and conclusions about one’s own direct experiences, then applying the learning’s to the “real world.” It emphasizes directly experiencing what I am studying, building a personal commitment to...
The distinction between the old style of university lecture learning (pedagogy - child learning) where the professor has the answer or it's in a book, and our job is to write down as fast as possible the "nuggets" of information for the purpose of memorizing it...