In addition to Escape + Search = Think leadership thinking can also incorporate 6 principles which we emphasise. I have encouraged trainers and leaders to understand and master the Six CAP Principles.
DFQ #05:
Choose one of the six CAP principles, and say why you think a better understanding of that principle will help you to become a much better leader.
NOTE: After you post your comment today you’ve completed 5 DFQs and the first week of the 4 weeks of the 30-day Pipeline. That’s good. It means you are already establishing new cognitive patterns. Keep it up!
You may have noticed that I sent you 1 lesson a day for 3 days then missed a day. After this lesson, I’ll miss another day and then send you lesson #6 which starts the second week. That means you get 5 DFQs every 7 days.
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I am a big fan for “learning by teaching”. The best way to learn about a topic is to teach it and is one of the advantages of presenting talks at a conference.
Effective follow up is the area that I need to get better at. It is easy to overlook this, particularly if “something else” pops up.
Learning by teaching- this is something I love doing. When you know something yourself you don’t always bother to organise all the information about it in your head. When you impart the knowledge to others you have to evaluate it, organise it and think of a way of explaining it that the recipient will understand and hopefully enthuse about. I only do this with small groups of staff/ colleagues so have probably not learnt special techniques to facilitate this process. But with my children at school, I get very frustrated that science is largely taught from a text book as though it were a dead laguage like Latin. This makes me see the power of creative new ways of teaching and learning, sadly not applied in the school system and I would be very interested to learn more about ways of teaching.
Learning by teaching: This ensures that I understand what I am teaching at a level that allows me to explain it well to others. It also gives me the opportunity to refine my thinking dependent on the interaction/questions received from the people being taught.
Effective Follow up: Revisiting what we have learned or implemented is often overlooked or “parked”. If we don’t follow up effectively we will be stuck in the CVS. Follow up allows us to utilise our thinking skills and seek continuious improvement moving to a BVS.
Without a doubt Learning By Teaching.
If I don’t understand I can’t explain.
If I do understand I can explain in many different ways depending on who I talk to, and have a number of avenues to make sure everyone understands.
Learning by teaching is an important principle. However there will be some tasks that staff would need to perform that I may not have the background myself to learn quickly enough to be able to teach the process. I find this quite difficult to manage, but it will need to be done as technology is changing more and more quickly, and thus there is more and more learning to be done.
I get great joy out of teaching CAP 1. The next level of leadership is to teach to teach and have those people teach others and so on (train-the-trainer).
1. Learning by teaching. I have long understood that I can only really understand how to carry out a task by walking myself through the task, step by step, and questioning the process as I go. It is only when I get to an ednpoint that I can review to see if I have understood the task. Only then can I feel that I can try to teach the task to others. Leadership will only come though with better follow-up of whether others have understood the task as I do.
In terms of leadership training I think effective follow up is the most tricky as it requires a committment to firstly create an environment that fosters honest feed back from others and to accept and work on what ever may come of that. Honest and constructive feedback is difficult to give and it can be difficult to take but I have seen that where this occurs small problems can be arrested before they dominate the workplace.
I think CAP 4 is a real challenge in my work. The uptake of project results by industry is a real issue. Showing the economic benefits for disease control programs have been useful, but even more important or useful are industry members (leaders) reporting on advantages of such work. I think growers tend be more receptive to other growers than to researchers, which is probably not surprising. Hmm think I’ll add this issue to the next grower meeting.