Around 2,300 years ago, Aristotle was traveling the Ancient Greek equivalent of the conference circuit. His lectures, later collected as the Nicomachean Ethics, included a key insight about human performance:
Imagine the sound of the crowd scribbling furiously into their wax tablets and papyrus scraps.
Yet to this day, many workplace learning experiences are designed not around the behaviors people need to adopt in order to succeed, but rather around knowledge transfer—getting information from point A to point B. No wonder nearly half of organizations report that their biggest employee learning challenge is getting people to apply what they learn on the job.
Maybe had Aristotle chosen a workshop format, instead of a lecture, people might have learned to change behaviors by now.
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