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Excerpts from the Winning Helix |
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Action-learning is a concept that many of us are familiar with. When we bestow our action-learning loop with a virtue of winning we will create a process that not only helps us to achieve results that we want but also to turn the stages of transition to procreative periods of growth.
The Winning Helix – the thriving confluence of action and learning
During my years working as a business consultant I often cerebrated the question why the learning processes did not result in necessary organizational change, although they did bring about the desired learning results and people felt good about the process. The real change required eventually an intervention from the management. What was learned did not seem to be adequate with the real strategic and operational needs of the company.
Among several other reasons that I found hindering the effective unison between action and learning I discovered one that caught my interest enough to embark upon a study:
”People and companies are not prepared to win – they don’t want to win, they rather focus on surviving.”
What I thought was that the people would benefit from a system for learning that would help them to turn the random steps of development into a purposeful movement towards the direction of their goals.
My research that included, apart from the traditional methods, an introspective study of my own development as a singer, a co-operation with a coach and the activities with a hockey-team and its fan-club resulted in a process model that combines the winning attitude with an intensive action-learning process. As a metaphor for the process I found the Dna-doublehelix that appeared to be genius and illustrating exactly all those different aspects of learning that I had in mind.
The action-learning doublehelix is intended to serve two main purposes of learning and growth:
1. To reach the peak-performance and develop it qualitatively 2. To make shifts to higher levels of skill through transition
The study also helped me to understand the varying emotional frequencies during the process. The recognition of these frequencies helps the learner to get attuned into the mood that is most beneficial in order to accomplish a learning task or a performance task.
Five elements that turn the action-learning loop to a Winning Doublehelix
1. Willpower furnished with the power of volition and the authority of intention 2. Mental Virtues that invest the action-learning process with winning, optimal experience and fighting spirit – the powers of vision, trust and mental demand. 3. Coachability skills that enhance learning making it effective, courageous and intense – and fun too. 4. The learning wheel – a theory combining different aspects of learning that focuses on developing and improving the performance. 5. The mobilization of energy to create a match between the mood of the learner/performer and the task at hand.
The key result of the study is “you will get what you order”. If from the very beginning of the learning endeavor you start to encode your process with winning learngrams and if you continuously strive for excellence in everything that you learn and do; that is what you will get. Adopting the action-learning doublehelix as a personal learning environment you will gain understanding how everything is related, and which learning steps and moves benefit the most to the development of your skill as well as to your personal growth. |
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The Art of Learning and Manifesting Your True Potential |
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The Winning Helix |
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