Development Through Learning and Training

Introduction

Learning and Development is something attached to human throughout the life. In our daily life we get the opportunity learn many new lessons and develop ourselves in many ways depending on how we adopt the opportunities. The process of empowering employees with specific skills is Workplace Learning and Development (L&D) (BasuMallick, 2020).

 

Learning is a long-term practice which focuses on career development and training is the short-term practice which focuses on the immediate requirements. Organizations should systematically practice both training and learning as tools of development of the employee.

 

According to the theory of Kolb, learning takes place in four stages (McLeod, 2017)

 

 

 Figure 1 Kolb’s cycle of learning (McLeod, 2017)

 

• Concrete – A new experience or situation
• Reflective – Observation of the reflection of the new experience or situation
• Abstract – Formation of concepts and generalization
• Active – Applied and tested for results

 

It is important for the Educators and trainers to identify their audience. Individual or a group, on the job or class room, the trainer should identify the trainees learning pattern. VAK learning styles were designed by Walter Burke Barbe and later developed by Neil Fleming (MACMILLAN, 2018). Learners are divided into three categories based on their style of learning.

• Kinesthetic – Absorb information by moving
• Auditory – by Sound
• Visual – by Sight 

According to (Belyh, 2019) the following methods can be utilised to teach to different types of learners.

VISUAL	AUDITORY	KINESTHETIC
Phrases they respond to	Phrases they respond to	Phrases they respond to
I see what you mean.	That rings a bell.	That feels right.
I get the picture.	I hear what you are saying.	How does that grab you?
What’s your view?	That sounds okay to me.	Let me try.

 

 

Conclusion

Learning throughout the job is very important to the employee and the employer. The employee develops his skill and in return contributes to the organization. It is very important no to misunderstand training to learning. Learners have 3 different ways of learning and it is very important for the educators identify them for better results.

 

References

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Belyh, A., 2019. Cleverism. [Online]
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MACMILLAN, F., 2018. Engage Education. [Online]
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McLeod, S., 2017. Simply Psuchology. [Online]
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