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This Training Takes tip is excerpted from the article "Project Entrepreneurs" by Catherine Rezak. It is archived in the Training & Education Department.
So how does one communicate new principles about project management in a way that leads to a culture shift? Based on her own experience with a discovery learning simulation, Xerox’s Lynne Hambleton offers some suggestions:
__ Make it active. There’s still a place for flip charts and PowerPoint presentations in classrooms of corporate America. But adult learning theory confirms time and again that people learn by doing. At some point, put away the flip chart and get people on their feet.
__ Make it fun. “Let’s face it. Project management is a pretty dry subject,” confides Hambleton. “I have the most success engaging learners when they’re having fun. That was one big reason the Countdown simulation worked so great at Xerox. It was fun.”
__ Make it practical. After engaging people in the fictional world of the learning simulation, Hambleton’s work is only half done. The next critical piece is connecting the experience back to the reality of daily work. How can we actually practice what we’ve learned? How do we actually do this in our work? If you don’t tie it back, people won’t ever own it.
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