Engaged Learning

I have never been a fan of 'STEPS', as in 'The Seven Steps to a Great Marriage' or 'The 5 Steps to Unstoppable Growth." For the most part, they are marketing titles that thinly vails the actual complexity. Each step might be made up of 5 substeps.

'The Seven Steps to Great Training' or anything like it might help the beginner with some place to start, but as they get into their project they will quickly realize that they must rely heavily on one step, somewhat on another and not at all on yet another. Up until now we looked at learning as a manufacturing environment. We expect to put information in the beginning, have it go through modification, and then come out looking like training which will work for all participants.

The new model calls for a different understanding. Information is not put in through a funnel, it flows in from everywhere. It is contributed by the consumers. The traditional producers of knowledge become the facilitators rather than the creators and keepers.

Suddenly you have more knowledge coming in from every direction. We have not set ourselves up for this type of information influx. But it is a model we can take advantage of if we focus on the need.

No more is knowledge created by steps (or process).







But is is coming from everywhere...