Different Approaches To Our Learning Process

Through dialogue we can listen for, learn and share the different preferences we have in learning.  This is an alternative to formally or informally testing and profiling one another. Instead of measuring and charting learning differences between personality types, we can focus on the different approaches to experience based learning that are available to us.  

Focusing on people and personalities doesn't provide easy access to identifying common ground for managing a joint learning process. Therefore it does not provide a simple or elegant path to facilitating collaborative interpersonal communication and work.  

On the other hand, the Learning Dialogue™ helps us to recognize the styles of learning that work best for us and for other individuals who we live with or work with.  The Learning Dialogue™ model focuses on the approaches and orientations to learning that are available to all of us in every situation.  It does not require us to type or oversimplify people. Instead, we can focus on negotiable elements for the best learning process, ours and theirs.

Starting At The Step You Are At

It is all about the step you are at and how you will go forward from there. How will you discover or determine what steps you will take to go forward, to come to a place of comprehension and understanding, effectiveness and productivity?  How will you attain fluent communication when, in fact, people really do learn differently and gaps and frictions in the process arise so routinely?

It is tempting to try to take control, to just manage the process yourself. Our custom is to minimize the challenge of how different we really are when it comes to our learning process preferences.  But in this case, ignorance is not bliss.  It is friction, sometimes even conflict.  Or else it is the dominance of one party and the passivity of the other – and a very poor learning and communication process that everyone often says is good when they know it isn't.

Document No. 2 Part 2

4 Ways To Take The Next Step

What do we know about the different possible approaches to an experience based learning process?  At the level of orientation, of trying to get a sense of direction in your learning process, it seems as though you could be coming from the opposite direction from what the person you are trying to listen to is coming from.  Read More...