Learning – flip book style!
The last six months have brought us so many changes, to our personal and work lives. For those of us lucky enough to be able to work from home, we’ve seen a reduction in long commutes and travel. This has been replaced with video calls and hours in front of our computers, connecting with our colleagues all over the world in an instant.
We have fast paced, digital delivery at our fingertips. We can have multiple windows open at one time – listening to a presentation, ordering our shopping, replying to emails and making a coffee – but is this really more productive?
Stress levels are rising and people are finishing the day exhausted, even without the commutes many used to endure.
My job is about enabling learning – whether that’s individuals, teams or organisations.
At an organisational level, I’ve increasingly noticed requests for learning interventions requiring everything to be – bitesize, short, fast and entertaining. At all costs, it can’t lose people’s attention for a second! What if they stop listening and start shopping?
What’s the cost of this shift to learning in a way that resembles the flip books of my childhood?
We are loosing the value of time to think, to reflect and just sit with new information and ideas. Time to start making links, allowing our brains to absorb the stories we are being told and create new ones, time to realise that we are applying our own biases and to move beyond that.