Experiential Learning For Business

Training through Experiential Learning

When it comes to any kind of workplace training or team building, learning through experience is one of the most effective ways for you to motivate your employees and improve company morale.

Here are a few reasons you should consider experiential learning, on its own or in conjunction with traditional classroom learning:

Equality:

  • All participants are equal in their ability to make a unique contribution
  • Situations and challenges create a state of disequilibrium where people cannot stand behind their normal status, roles and defenses
  • Prior experience or status isn’t relevant, the group can reorganize itself around the tasks and processes required to complete the challenge

    • Team Building:

  • Working and collaborating on extraordinary challenges, your employees will communicate and interact like never before
  • People get to know and understand one another better in a single day than they might in a full year of normal working conditions

    • Insight:

  • As the group focuses on solving problems, each individual will project their own management ability and leadership style into the experience
  • These insights into their styles provide a unique opportunity to shape the team based learning accordingly

    • Review:

  • After the challenges teams are required to evaluate the consequences of their organizational decisions and performance
  • Each team member reviews themselves, their leadership, problem solving skills, teamwork, communication and management style
  • Typically, in the workplace, few situations would arise and be addressed in such a short time span, so this provides a unique opportunity to review the team’s process while events are still fresh

    • Chaos and Crisis in a Safe Environment:

  • Where else could your team experience chaos, disorder, crisis and the unexpected in an environment where the consequences for failure are limited
  • Teams are able to take risks, and to develop strategies and best practices for managing crisis which serve them well back in the workplace

    • Cognitive Development:

  • Experiences that involve physical, mental and behavioral dimensions provide a ‘whole body’ learning
  • Participants develop a shared vision and an ability to see themselves and their colleagues in a new light
  • The experience has positive and long-term effects on the dynamic and environment within the workplace

    • Fun:

  • Most of all participants have fun
  • When they are enjoying themselves they are more open, more creative and more co-operative

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