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I hope you find it useful and interesting. With best regards, Dave Crisp
You are receiving this weekly Tools and Tips Newsletter because we have met or exchanged business cards or you have requested some information from me at some point. You can opt out of receiving these emails by using the link at the foot of the page. Today we look at how coaching accelerates learning and improves performance.
I hope you find it useful and interesting. With best regards, Dave Crisp
Tip 45 – How to dramatically accelerate learning
One of the underlying principles of Accelerated Learning is that:“Learning comes from doing the work itself (with feedback)” according to D Meier in his book The accelerated learning handbook. This means that people learn best in context.
Things learned in isolation are hard to remember and quick to forget. We learn how to swim by swimming, how to sing by singing, how to dance by dancing, how to manage by managing and how to lead by leading. The real and the concrete are far better teachers – provided there is time for total immersion, feedback, reflection, and re-immersion.
One of the reasons why many people adopt a ‘coaching approach’ to management is because it provides all the necessary criteria for accelerated learning and so works to improve performance.
As an example of a coaching approach here are five different ways ...
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Contents
Welcome
Quote of the week
Tools & Tips
Humour/Story
Welcome
Quote of the week
Tools & Tips
Humour/Story
Issue 45 - Nov 2009
Crisp Coaching & Consultancy Ltd
Tools & Tips Newsletter
Crisp Coaching & Consultancy Ltd,
Radnor House, 46 Radnor Road, Horfield, Bristol BS7 8QY Tel: 0117 373 9499
Company Registration Number 05379946
info@ccandc.co.uk www.ccandc.co.uk
Radnor House, 46 Radnor Road, Horfield, Bristol BS7 8QY Tel: 0117 373 9499
Company Registration Number 05379946
info@ccandc.co.uk www.ccandc.co.uk
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Impromptu Concert
A mother wished to encourage her small girl's interest in the piano and so took her a local concert featuring an excellent pianist. In the entrance foyer the mother met an old friend and the two stopped to talk. The little girl was keen to see inside the hall and so wandered off, unnoticed by her mother. The girl's mother became concerned when she entered the hall and could see no sign of her daughter. Staff were notified and an announcement was made asking the audience to look out for the little lost girl. With the concert due to start, the little girl had still not been found. In preparation for the pianist's entrance, the curtains drew aside, to reveal the little girl sitting at the great piano, focused in concentration, quietly picking out the notes of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'.
The audience's amusement turned to curiosity when the pianist entered the stage, walked up to the little girl, and said "Keep playing."
The pianist sat down beside her, listened for a few seconds and whispered some more words of encouragement. He then began to quietly play a bass accompaniment and, after a few bars, reached around the little girl to add more accompaniment.
At the end of the impromptu performance the audience applauded loudly as the pianist took the little girl back to her seat to be reunited with her mother.
The experience was inspirational for everyone, not least the small girl.
It takes just a few moments to make somebody's day, to help someone with their own personal aims and dreams - especially someone who looks up to you for encouragement and support.
author unknown
A mother wished to encourage her small girl's interest in the piano and so took her a local concert featuring an excellent pianist. In the entrance foyer the mother met an old friend and the two stopped to talk. The little girl was keen to see inside the hall and so wandered off, unnoticed by her mother. The girl's mother became concerned when she entered the hall and could see no sign of her daughter. Staff were notified and an announcement was made asking the audience to look out for the little lost girl. With the concert due to start, the little girl had still not been found. In preparation for the pianist's entrance, the curtains drew aside, to reveal the little girl sitting at the great piano, focused in concentration, quietly picking out the notes of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'.
The audience's amusement turned to curiosity when the pianist entered the stage, walked up to the little girl, and said "Keep playing."
The pianist sat down beside her, listened for a few seconds and whispered some more words of encouragement. He then began to quietly play a bass accompaniment and, after a few bars, reached around the little girl to add more accompaniment.
At the end of the impromptu performance the audience applauded loudly as the pianist took the little girl back to her seat to be reunited with her mother.
The experience was inspirational for everyone, not least the small girl.
It takes just a few moments to make somebody's day, to help someone with their own personal aims and dreams -
author unknown
The Trench Digger
An elderly couple had retired to a small isolated cottage in the countryside, overlooking some rugged and rocky heathland.
One early morning from her window, the woman saw a young man dressed in working clothes walking on the heath about a hundred yards away. He was carrying a spade and a small case and he disappeared from view behind a copse of trees.
The woman thought no more about it but around the same time the next day she saw the man again, carrying his spade and a small case, and again he disappeared behind the copse. The woman mentioned this to her husband who said he was probably a farmer or gamekeeper setting traps, or performing some other country practice that would be perfectly normal, and so she shouldn’t worry.
However, after several more sightings of the young man over the next two weeks, the woman persuaded her husband to take a stroll - early, before the man tended to arrive - to the copse of trees to investigate what he was doing.
There they found a surprisingly long and deep trench, rough and uneven at one end, becoming much neater and tidier towards the other end. "How strange," the old lady said, "Why dig a trench here ... and in such difficult rocky ground?" Her husband agreed.
Just then the young man appeared earlier than his usual time. "You're early," said the old woman, making light of their obvious curiosity, "We wondered what you were doing and what was in your case."
"I'm digging a trench," said the man, who continued realising a bigger explanation was appropriate. "I'm actually learning how to dig a good trench because the job I'm being interviewed for later today says that experience is essential, so I'm getting the experience. And the case ... has got my lunch in it."
author unknown
An elderly couple had retired to a small isolated cottage in the countryside, overlooking some rugged and rocky heathland.
One early morning from her window, the woman saw a young man dressed in working clothes walking on the heath about a hundred yards away. He was carrying a spade and a small case and he disappeared from view behind a copse of trees.
The woman thought no more about it but around the same time the next day she saw the man again, carrying his spade and a small case, and again he disappeared behind the copse. The woman mentioned this to her husband who said he was probably a farmer or gamekeeper setting traps, or performing some other country practice that would be perfectly normal, and so she shouldn’t worry.
However, after several more sightings of the young man over the next two weeks, the woman persuaded her husband to take a stroll -
There they found a surprisingly long and deep trench, rough and uneven at one end, becoming much neater and tidier towards the other end. "How strange," the old lady said, "Why dig a trench here ... and in such difficult rocky ground?" Her husband agreed.
Just then the young man appeared earlier than his usual time. "You're early," said the old woman, making light of their obvious curiosity, "We wondered what you were doing and what was in your case."
"I'm digging a trench," said the man, who continued realising a bigger explanation was appropriate. "I'm actually learning how to dig a good trench because the job I'm being interviewed for later today says that experience is essential, so I'm getting the experience. And the case ... has got my lunch in it."
author unknown
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Humour/Story: Impromptu Concert and The Trench Digger
