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We’ve all been to training workshops where we’ve returned with a lever arch file full of papers and scribbled notes. If you’re anything like me, the file sits on a shelf for a while. It’s proof that you were there, but its pages are hardly ever opened as the workshop recedes into your memory Insight workshops focus on creating an environment in which delegates aren’t expected simply to collect or absorb information. Their aim is that what you take away will be within you, not within a lever arch file.
The resulting workshop is more fun, and the learning is totally personal to each delegate.
There’s another, and perhaps even more important reason to move away from a workshop that simply imparts knowledge. We live in a rapidly changing world, and to survive and succeed in this world its simply not enough to learn what the best have done. Every case study, no matter how impressive the apparent results, suffers from one fatal shortcoming. It talks about the past. In a rapidly changing world, the past is a place that no longer exists.
Of course this doesn’t mean ignoring the past, but seeing it in ways that enable the future, rather than perpetuate the past. The aim of these workshops is not to focus on what, but how. Not what was done, but how could it be done.
We live in a connected world, and to truly understand anything, we need to draw on the connections to everything. Each workshop uses totally new material drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds and sources, many of them somewhat unusual. So for example in learning about measurements in business, ideas from science or art may be richer sources of understanding than those found within business.
In short I’m a great believer in people. We are much brighter, more intelligent and more capable than we care to admit to ourselves. Rather than chicks in the nest being fed the latest snippets of knowledge, Insight Workshops help you leave the nest and soar to make our own new discoveries. Workshop topic areas More topic areas to follow. Request more information via the contact us page. This page last updated February 29 2008 |
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The approach is an antidote to training based on delivering knowledge. Those who’ve seen my style of conference presentation will be familiar with an approach in which I encourage delegates to develop their own insights. This is a much more powerful and enjoyable way of exploring and creating new understanding.
The key to learning in this new rapidly changing environment is to equip ourselves not with the knowledge of what did work, but the ability to identify what will work.
