The Power of Learning

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The Power of Learning

• Simon Wiltshire Director of Business Psychology

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The Power of (un) Learning

• Why are you here?
• What have you learned today?
• How much will you remember tomorrow?
• What will make a long term impact?

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Differentiators

• What are the differences that make the difference?

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Personal Reflections

• Your most memorable positive learning experience
• What did you think? Feel? Do?
• What has been the impact?

• Your most memorable negative learning experience
• What did you think? Feel? Do?
• What has been the impact?

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Two aspects of Learning

• COGNITIVE
• Rational
• Logic
• Concrete
• Evidence
• Real
• Convergent
• Deductive

• EMOTIONAL
• Irrational
• Feeling
• Abstract
• Gut
• Unreal
• Divergent
• Intuition

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Short Circuiting Reality The Ladder of Inference
I take Action I form Beliefs I draw
Conclusions I make Assumptions I add
Meaning I Select the right Data Real Data
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Double Loop Learning
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Meta-Competency

• When you look at what personal attributes predict
  success across all types of organisations what
  do you think comes out top?

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Openness to Learning

• Reflection leading to.
• Self analysis challenge and awareness
• Willingness to try new approachesmoving beyond
  familiar patterns and routines

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How much of your potential do you think you are
using?

• Potential Performance?
• Potential interference Performance

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So what causes interference?

• Fear (losing, winning, making a fool of yourself)
• Lack of self confidence
• Trying too hard
• Trying for perfection
• Trying to impress
• Anger and frustration
• Boredom
• A busy mind

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And..Rational lies

• Things we tell ourselves to make difficult things
  more palatable, or to justify a decision we have
  already made

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AndThe Impact of Social Context

• A brief story about monkeys and bananas!

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How to learn more

• Practice honest self reflection
• Get feedback
• Dont reject personally challenging information
• Recognise that we learn most from what challenges
  us most
• Engage both the Cognitive (Reason) and Emotional
  aspects

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Finally..

• If you want to learn a lot about ducks you better
  learn to love ducks!