Reading this week in Wlodkowski, Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn, I am again struck how there are parallels of strategies for teaching and techniques suggested for facilitating creative brainstorming and ideation sessions. One of the first similarities I noticed was the need to create a safe environment. Eliminating negative conditions, such as pain, fear and anxiety, frustration, boredom (p.177) are all emotions that need to be minimized to allow for an individual's ability to think in new ways for innovation.
Confronting erroneous beliefs of the learner, is similar to activities in ideation sessions in which the group seeks to uncover orthodoxies and the route causes of these orthodoxies. For innovation, orthodoxies are those deeply held beliefs that may be blocking the possibilities of new ways of thinking and doing. With a learner, these negative learned attitudes impede the learners way of acquiring new information.
In the future, I am going to use the positive question suggested, "What might have to happen for you to believe you could do well or change your attitude (belief) in a positive direction?" This could be adapted to for an innovation session in which the team is asked, "What might need to happen for the company to believe it can be innovative?" or something similar.
It seems like motivation techniques are often cross situational. Something I am going to keep an eye on over the next ten weeks of class.
3 comments:
Hi Marianne-
I like how you are applying the readings to innovation (in other words, enhancing your attitude toward the subject by relating it to your personal interests)!
Tobi
Marianne,
I really appreciate your framing of the reading in terms of your own knowledge and goals. This week you have clearly added value to existing knowledge by weaving these new ideas into it. Your insight about the belief-changing activity is interesting. This is a common technique used by career and life coaches. It's about putting the onus for change into the learner's hands, getting them to visualize their part in it, and how it might take place. Semantically, it's a pretty simple approach, but cognitively it's powerful. I would love to hear how this manifests in an innovation session! Thanks once again this week for a creative post.
Allison
Wow, such cool ideas. I really love "non-linear" kinds of thinking and strategies to help induce this. I'm sure we could have some quite long and fun discussions around this. I might need to seek you out for some consultation in the future as this is something I often wonder about. How do our preconceived ideas about what SHOULD be affect the potentially awesome changes that can occur. SO cool!! Great stuff friend.
Cameron
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