Learn Faster from Experience: Active Learning and Design Thinking in the Workplace
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The document discusses the importance of learning from experience and how design thinking can enhance this process by fostering critical skills such as communication and collaboration. It highlights the role of group coaching in shifting from passive to active learning, emphasizing the need for reframing questions and recognizing options. Ultimately, it outlines the contrast between fixed and growth mindsets and the benefits of an open learning culture.
Learn Faster from Experience: Active Learning and Design Thinking in the Workplace
- 3. Everyday learning in action can teach us critical thinking, judgment, managing, communication and collaboration skills.
- 4. But learning from experience is a skill.
- 5. Learning by design is faster than learning by chance.
- 7. design thinking is a way of seeing fresh possibilities and options for action.
- 8. “Run Beyond” by Angelo Bonello, Italy Light Fest at the Distillery District, photo by Sharon VanderKaay You can learn to DESIGN YOUR WAY through messy situations.
- 10. Design thinking helps you realize the full potential of any situation because...
- 11. ...it exposes greater possibilities for action.
- 12. 1. observant 2. intentional (mindful) 3. values-driven 4. non-linear 5. human-centric, empathetic 6. on purpose
- 13. How to become an active learner and design thinker?
- 14. GROUP COACHING shifts learning from passive to active and applies design thinking to daily situations.
- 15. What’s possible in this situation? Is there another way to do it? How can we re-frame the question? The GROUP COACH uses questions to spark faster learning from experience as a habit. What if...?
- 16. GROUP COACHING provides: • Practice in reframing situations • Practice asking diagnostic questions • What to look for, how to look for it • How to assess options
- 17. Group coaching reveals: • What prevents learning from experience • Why good intentions are not enough • How new learning habits are formed
- 18. GROUP COACHING also prepares us for setbacks, rejection, ups and downs and other realities of navigating work that’s not done by a robot.
- 19. Fixed Thinking Growth Mindset self-limiting, blame, defensive assumptions, lazy thinking fragile ego, fearful, self-limiting distrustful, suppress questions push to get attention low energy, disconnected can’t-do attitude, reactive see options, take responsibility smarter decisions healthy ego, confident speak candidly, curious pull, natural attraction vibrant, better connected can-do attitude, take initiative closed culture costs open learning culture benefits LEARNING CULTURE? Sharon VanderKaay no yes