Being successful at skill development means first understanding HOW TO DEVELOP SKILLS. In practical terms, it means mastering a process for turning knowledge into skills.
College gives one a knowledge base and a limited set of skills. Normally these skills are technical. Norhting wrong with that but is is important to understand that some of the most important skills necessary for success in business or government are not taught in the university.
Secondly, skill development should be viewed as a lifetime endeavor. But you are only toing to be good at it if you develop a process for learning a skill.
The Legace Skill Development Model
Overview
I
remember the words my mother ground deeply into my mind
starting when I was a little boy. Perhaps your mother
had similar words. She told me on many occasions, “Work
hard and you’ll succeed.” It was as if endless
hours of 20/7 days automatically correlated to vast wealth.
After
putting these words into practice for many years, it
seems she was only half right. Really she should have
said is, “Work hard and you’ll succeed; work
smart and you don’t have to work so hard.” And
to work smarter, you must continually upgrade
your knowledge and skills.
The Skill Development Model
The model stresses
that effective skill development requires learning how to master a process of developing skills. To do that, one needs the right mixture of feedback,
motivation, practice and theory.
Skill Development Phase 1: Find Sound
Theory
Your skill development
program is only as good as the theory behind it. In other words, before you
practice,
you
must know and understand intellectually
what has to be done. Good theory is relevant, practical, detailed and convertible into a behavior.
Skill Development Phase 2: Practice
Some
skills development efforts require a few minutes; others
take hundreds of hours. In the hundreds of hours category, we have
becoming
a persuasive
speaker. Even those with great aptitude blessed with a large dose
of
talent must practice endlessly to get really good.
On the other hand,
skill development on how to make a positive first impression takes takes less
than
30 minutes since the theory is not that complicated. However, one must
still practice a many times to get good at it.
A Father's Admonition to His Son
Practice Requires Motivation
Standard assessments
are very good at measuring some things, but they can't measure motivation.
In our model, a person serious about skill development must
be internally motivated to perfect the skill. It is unrealistic to expect any teacher
or coach to motivate the apathetic or the lazy to perfect developing a skill. Still, smart organizations are wise to have defined consequences for desired and undesired behaviors.
If you never practice, you can fall down, but you can't ski.
Practice Requires Feedback
Skill development
requires feedback. Unfortunately, behavioral
feedback is commonly not done in most programs. There
are two ways to get feedback: do it yourself or get others to do
it for you. In our
programs, we typically provide skilled coaches who can provide positive and
negative feedback.
Skill Development Phase 3: Skill Mastery
This is our term for perfection—to "be all
that you can be."
This is a special state of mind when skills development in largely over and the skill runs largely in the unconscious.
If
You Learn our Model — You
Will Accelerate Your Own Skill Development
The One-Day Seminar On Skill Development
Mastering The Mental Game: How To More Quickly Develop Skills
Description
Mental practice is as powerful as physical practice in leadership skill development—most sports psychologists recommend both. Despite its importance, few understand how to use the mind to build skills. This results in a tremendous loss of corporate development dollars and a great personal loss in terms of a skill never perfected.
We provide
a Skill Development Model—so you can more quickly
develop expertise. It minimizes wasted time, effort and money by using a combination
of sound theory combined
with repeated practice to help individuals' perfect a skill.
This is an applied workshop. There is a great deal of practice time built in to try out this new technique of skill development.
Learn how to:
More quickly develop a skill,
Access resource states,
Learn new behaviors faster, and
Enhance the usefulness of development programs you attend.
Topics
Learning Outcomes
Major Methods of Learning
The Skill Development Model
Accessing Resource States
Mental Practice Techniques
Goal Imagery
Practice
Process Imagery
Practice
Combining Physical and Mental Practice
Reinforcement Techniques
Concluding Exercise
Practice
• Understand the Big Picture: The most important methods of behavioral and cognitive learning.
• Understand the model of skill development.
• Know what it means to master a skill.
• Use a method of accessing conscious and unconscious resources.
• Practice using goal imagery in a physical activity and mental activity.
• Practice using process imagery in a physical activity and mental activity.
• Find out how to better practice skill development to reduce wasted time.
• Discover the importance of motivation and how to structure motivational incentives for individual learning.
• Apply the leadership skill development process to a skill of your choice.
• Integrate this approach into your daily routine.
Contact
us for a free consultation. We also can send you a link to a FREE ten minute streamed video done by one of our best presenters designed to both be entertaining and make the abstract real.
This is an extremely comprehensive site that focuses a wide variety of employment skills such as workforce literacy, various types of assessments, thinking skills, human relation skills and so on.
