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Editor’s
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Learning from experiences
We gain new experiences every day, but it’s only
when we look and analyse those experiences that we
begin to understand their true value. “Well, you learn
from experience,” my mother always told me when
something had gone wrong, and in all honesty the
phrase then left me believing I’d only ever learn from
bad experiences. Did I learn from positive ones too as
a child? The answer, of course, is yes. All experiences
in which we take an active involvement will aid the
learning process. And with experiential learning, it is
the fun and enjoyable aspect that really makes the
learning stick.
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The most obvious childhood learning episode nearly
all of us can recall has to be learning to ride a bike.
Both a painful and exhilarating experience! As
a child it’s the way we learn best, learning by doing,
practising over and over, but as we go through the
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British education system and the learning style changes
we then feel shocked when we’re put on a training
course with a silly gimmicky name that sounds more
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Like learning to ride a bike
like a social event than anything of real learning value.
However, a return to this childhood learning technique
Experiential learning gets rediscovered in adulthood
has proved to be extremely successful.
Our main feature on experiential learning on page 13
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Retail goes En Vogue
explains how the concept works, why it’s so popular
TK Maxx is leading the way in retail training trends
and what direction the field is moving in. Some of the
courses out there may sound a little wacky, but I
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believe if it worked in early childhood then surely we
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American Idol
should take it on board, invest in it and we may just
In our first lead interview we speak to
experience more than we bargained for.
learning guru Elliott Masie
Also in this issue, if your team or company has
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NLP: A powerful tool or a
experienced and achieved some great things in the
past year, then now is the time to shine under the
three-ringed circus?
spotlight of the learning industry’s most prestigious
The trend of Neuro-Linguistic Programming has both
awards ceremony, the World of Learning Awards 2008.
pro’s and con’s
For full details on how to enter, plus a list of all our
categories, see the World of Learning Awards Preview
on page 38.
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World of Learning Awards Preview
Find out about the awards and enter for your
Until the next issue, enjoy all of life’s great experiences
chance to shine under the spotlight
– they could teach you a thing or two!
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Anita Peach, Editor
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