Foundations of Total Learning
This book introduces the core ideas, language, and principles that underpin Total Learning.
It is designed to be returned to throughout your learning journey
1. How we approach Total Learning
Three Steps to Total Learning
Our approach to (E)L&D[1] focuses on both shared and applied learning, aligned with our purpose, vision, and mission statements. There are three steps:
Learning for Impact
Our raison d'être; our purpose. Learning and practice create a measurable impact on the individual and institution .
Often, the organisation supports its people to go on training and development programmes. But, how often is this linked to the work that they do? Working with the institution as a delivery partner, we will assess the institution's needs, the behaviours it is seeking to encourage and what is expected of individuals. We will then work with the individuals to determine personal expectations and development needs. Engaging with both the institution and the individual, we will then balance both sets of expectations and needs and agree on an impact assessment framework for institutional and individual outcomes.
Integrated Learning
Our vision is to enable cohesive learning at all levels and across all skill bases.
In problem-solving, some of the best solutions come from those closest to the challenge. The challenges will also test others across the organisation and its networks. The age-old saying “the sum of the whole is greater than its parts” comes to mind. We encourage a unified approach to interconnected challenges by aligning learning across the organisation and its networks. This reflects the creation of learning organisations. An organisation that is committed to improvement must also be committed to learning. How does this emerge? A learning organisation excels in generating, attaining, and assigning knowledge, applying changed behaviours to reflect the new knowledge and insights. Only in this way can wisdom emerge.
Shared Learning
Our mission is to create empowered spaces for shared learning and evidence-based application.
Our empowered learning system seeks to promote a collective mission to improve institutional and individual outcomes.
An applied learning space is created to enable this. The space is a combination of virtual and face-to-face engagement and application. Within the space, we encourage collaboration, collegiality and mutual respect. The aim is to stimulate Learning through 360° Intelligent Networks in creating Knowledge and Skills (LINKS360®) to create a trusted environment where people feel confident and able to learn together. Our rationale is to reinforce a culture where leaders and learners feel able to exercise initiative and apply the learning within and beyond the learning space. Success is measured through impact assessment based on the co-designed impact framework across the short and long-term applications.
[1] Both (Executive) and Non-Executive Learning and Development