New Horizons

The Learning Innovator - Week 1 – Peter Taylor

1. Whatever we pay attention to, becomes more important to use.
2. We are living in a state of continuous partial attention.
3. Our sub-conscious operations are responsible for the "Ah! Ha!" moments in the middle of the night.
4. Unconsciously we "act" and then think about it later. When we are fluent at doing something our performance will degenerate once we start paying attention to doing it. (I thought about when I tried to change my backhand in squash and by concentrating on that I found my whole game fell apart!)
5. Issues we give attention to are framed by past experiences.
6. Leaders of change go through deep learning. (I've been on my new learning journey since late 2000 !) Need a different timeframe around our thinking - if it took me time - it's going to take Faculty Directors and other Business Unit Managers longer!!!
7. Routines of older teachers are so automatic and will be very hard to change!
8. Easier to lead rational changes - harder to lead emotional changes. We move from stability to chaos to stability. We have to acknowledge that old relationships will break down and we will build new ones!
9. There is great value in diversity. In a business - if a product is identified as a loser it is "killed off".
10. A group is more powerful than individuals only as long as individuals can speak their own mind. (Don't start with a conclusion.) If a working party comes up with a recommendation, don't toss it out. Allow groups to make decisions.
11. Knowledge is a capacity for effective action.
12. Refer to Peter Senge's Model of Change
13. We have to let go - look around and explore issues. Confusion and uncertainty are part of any good learning. We need to engage in open discussion and constructive confrontation.
14. We have lunch breaks - some companies have "hunch breaks" - time for people to be innovative i.e. not a forcep's birth to innovation. Microsoft example was quoted.

# posted by Lyn Ambrose @ 8:00:00 pm