Identifying the learning styles of
Learning, does it end with the schooling? Do we need learning
now? As Henderson (2017) said Learning is a change in Human knowledge, Skills
& attitude, that will gain against the experience. Learning is more
important in a work place since learning may be the solution for most of the problem’s
employees face.
In an organization employee are gathered where each coming
from different places with different cultures with different skills &
different perspective. It’s important to the company drive all of them to see
the bigger picture. That’s where learning comes to an effect. Through learning,
an employee will get a sense of that they are valued & they will be an
investment to the company.
Let’s look at what working place learning addresses.
-Individual employee strength & Weaknesses
-Performance Gaps
-Instability
-Dissatisfaction
It’s important to make employees adhere to the company
learning culture & motivate them to drive to achieve company goals. To make
this process more effective, organization should understand what are their employees
learning styles since each may carry their own ways.
VAK learning style (Barbe, 1979) is one of the simplest way
to address the company employees.
Visual – In the working place workers who are better with
graphs, Charts & videos, who are tend to be very neat & tidy those can be
recognize as the visual learners.
Auditory – Auditory learners often talk to them self, they
do better when listening to a co-worker or through tape recorder & hearing
what was said.
Kinesthetic – These types of leaners are easy to recognize
among the employees. They like to draw pictures, diagrams or doodle when
listening to things & reading them. They often use highlighters or color
pens.
Even from those hints, if someone couldn’t be understanding
their learning styles there are plenty of self-assessment questionnaire that
one would take & understand what is their learning style.
Please click following link for self-assessment to get to
know the learning style.
Its important to give an attention to each & every
employee in a learning culture work place. In the learning process touching
each style make employees attract & engaged in the process voluntarily.
References
John, H. (2019) Why is workplace learning important? edOppSolutions
Learning & Strategy at work. Available at: https://www.edopplearning.com/post/why-is-workplace-learning-important.
Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learning Styles (VAK)
(2011). Available at: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles/vakt.html.
Learning Styles Questionnaire (no date) HFE.
Available at: https://www.hfe.co.uk/learning-styles-questionnaire/.
Good work Shameena, to understand the learning style of the people who work with us is giving a guideline how to develop them easy way. Good questioner to understand each of our learning style. Thanks for shearing this.
ReplyDeleteCompanies should understand their employees learning styles in order to establish proper learning approaches.Good work shameena.
ReplyDeleteInteresting and valuable article. You have clearly explained the importance of the learning culture in organizations. Also you have specially specified how the learning culture motivate to achieve the organizational goal. Good effort. Short article which gives a brief explanation about learning culture. Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeletenice article. good luck shamina
ReplyDeleteGood article for the current society. Employees have different learning styles and the leaders approaches should customize based on those styles.Nice try.Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteInteresting article , nicely explained about learning culture . nice work
ReplyDeleteInteresting article to identify the learning styles of the individuals and which gave a clear picture to the organization to implement correct communication in between employees.
ReplyDeleteAs Henderson (2017) said Learning is a change in Human knowledge, Skills & attitude, that will gain against the experience. ..Yes, That is true
ReplyDeleteIt is important to understand employees learning styles to communicate them with proper job knowledge. It will help the employer to save more time and money incurred for training and development. Nice article.
ReplyDeleteGood blog Shamina. While agreeing in your statements I would like to share something I r referred recently. All we must do is tap into the knowledge base, which gives us the "ability to think critically and creatively, the ability to communicate ideas and concepts, and the ability to cooperate with other human beings in the process of inquiry and action (Navran Associates Newsletter 1993).
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