Kolb's Learning Cycle Expanded
1. Life gives us "gifts" in the form of opportunities to have EXPERIENCES.
2. Coaching provides the opportunity to get FEEDBACK from these experiences - this is achieved by questioning and clarifying.
3. Further probing and questioning creates insights and common themes which lead to the learner REFLECTING on the experiences, the action that was taken and the consequences of this action.
4. From these insights and personal discoveries, CONCLUSIONS are drawn that, if sufficiently powerful, can relate back to other current or past situations.
5. The valuable lessons learned from this exercise are then applied to future situations in the form of EXPERIMENTS.
6. From these experiments, EXPERIENCES are provided as well as further opportunities to learn more and the cycle goes around again.
I have found that Kolb's learning cycle becomes so much more effective when approached from a coaching perspective. It incorporates the "empowerment causes involvement which causes commitment which results in increased performance" coaching technique with the "commend, recommend, commend" Toastmaster principle.
1. Life gives us "gifts" in the form of opportunities to have EXPERIENCES.
2. Coaching provides the opportunity to get FEEDBACK from these experiences - this is achieved by questioning and clarifying.
3. Further probing and questioning creates insights and common themes which lead to the learner REFLECTING on the experiences, the action that was taken and the consequences of this action.
4. From these insights and personal discoveries, CONCLUSIONS are drawn that, if sufficiently powerful, can relate back to other current or past situations.
5. The valuable lessons learned from this exercise are then applied to future situations in the form of EXPERIMENTS.
6. From these experiments, EXPERIENCES are provided as well as further opportunities to learn more and the cycle goes around again.
I have found that Kolb's learning cycle becomes so much more effective when approached from a coaching perspective. It incorporates the "empowerment causes involvement which causes commitment which results in increased performance" coaching technique with the "commend, recommend, commend" Toastmaster principle.
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