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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#2 Knowledge into skill will bring out the physical skills required to master an activity through PRR. From thought form in the mind, to desired results in the physical world.
I think that Principle 3…Measurement will help me most.
If I thoroughly understand it , and practice it, and develop virtuostic skill in it ,I will be in a much better position to guide the training of others learning it….if I have TAUGHT myself first…..I have a better than even chance of successfully leading others to understanding and skill.
In England 20 years ago a part of common wisdom was the following belief:
“If you can, you do, if you can’t, you teach.
If you can’t teach, you educate teachers.”
I don’t know if this belief truthfuly describes the situation in England or Australia now, but I’m sure that it does so quite accurately in Poland. I’m also convinced that this situation is caused by the long lasting proces of negative selection of teachers at all levels of polish educational system. Obviously these school teachers as wel as universyty lecturers are not interested in the introduction of the standards measuring the outcomes of the educational proces in terms of procedural skills rather than declarative knowledge. The reason of this obstruction is quite simple – they themselves posses some declarative knowledge but very litle procedural skills. The consequences of this situation are rather sad – young people after many years of “education” do not poses any practical skills, even having engineering degres, and require further years of training to fit available jobs. As a side efect, Poland occupies usualy one of the last places on ranking lists measuring inovation and competivenes of the developed and developing nations.
It is now obvious, I hoope, that I’m fully convinced that all teachers and trainers require not only knowledge but skills to help learners and trainees to acquire knowledge and skills themselves.
My personal experience as reflective practitioner and lecturer convinced me also that the best way to organise and consolidate my knowledge is to teach others and the the best way to improve my skills is to practice them myself.
I also believe that the learning outcomes should be measured not only in terms of the hours of practice but also as the level of the acquired skills. For these reasons I’m interested in activities where outcames and performance are relatively easy measured – it is software development and currency trading. These activities are not only measureable but also require a lot of thinking, creativity and inowation.
5. Effective Follow-up:The monitoring of feedback and measuring results were an important part of CAP. Checking to see if what happened was what the trainee really wanted. This became a continuous part of the process.
Something that I am stuggling with at the moment is finding a way to provide a positive result on a project i am working on. My learner is not engaged and enthusiasic about the work we are doing. He does not see the outcomes and the predicted outcomes of proposed changes as a benefit. I will persist by proposing new options solutions to spark interest and hopefully prompt for some suggestions from him.
Like Clark, I rarely formally measure my knowledge acquisition except where that is a required step in my professional development ie where there is an examination associated with the learning. However, setting goals and measuring the progress towards them does lead me to better outcomes.
Follow up action!
Better understanding ‘Reinforcement’ will help me become a better leader.
After spend time aquiring the knowledge, practice, evaluation and follow up during the training, if a person doesn’t regularly apply what they learned the skills can not built. I think that reinforcing is also getting a commitment to improve our way of thinking.
When you teach or impart your knowledge to someone else, that process reinforces the knowledge in yourself. As it involves repetition.
I think “Measurement” is a key factor that will make me a better leader. I tend to learn something new but then do not put in the hours to integrate it as a new skill. Measuring HOP will correct this.
Learning by teaching. I feel that the more I teach what I have
learned not only increases my understanding but also improves
my teaching ability. Not everyone learns at the same pace,
some have more questions than others, etc, so each teaching
experience improves my ability to pass on knowledge.