When we investigate what holds people back from learning new materials or new behaviours, we often find the key blockage has little to do with the learner but rather, the preferences of the trainer. The dominant style of the trainer, instructor, tutor, coach or teacher will have a huge effect on the ability of the learner to actually learn.
For this reason we encourage people to learn a little more about their own preferences for learning and to pay attention to those times when they experience learning difficulties. Focusing upon 'how' we learn, and the way we absorb information, can have a huge impact on our acquisition of new skills and knowledge.
Some people have a preference for learning through experiencing the actual activity - others prefer to learn in a group through debate, question and answer, and discussion: others through exploration with minimal input and yet others through the traditional focus on assimilating information and working through the logic presented to them.
By taking a group of people through this process the entire emotional and problem solving intelligence of the group can rise substantially - when each person in the group understands that different people learn effectively in different ways. Becoming aware of learning using different approaches can substantially impact on the group's effectiveness and, more importantly, their output in an organisational setting.
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