Teaching skills and changing behaviour
Many times, we hope to achieve a that the audience acquires a skill or will change their behaviour through our teachings. If that is part of the aim of our teaching, it is not a wise thing to embark on such a journey without having a thorough knowledge of the psychology behind learning skills and the psychology of behaviour change. I will discuss the most important aspects of teaching that can change behaviour effectively.
We may get it wrong
It is true that effective leaders have to task to inspire and motivate their followers and a good talk can really make a difference in how we feel. However, this feeling tends to be temporary in nature and leaders do not have the time to keep up our level of inspiration and motivation at all times. Too many leaders are so proud of their huge knowledge of the basics and of their own journey, that they become eager to share and “a kind of impose” their ways on the audience.
Sincerely, I had been doing this for ten years. Effect? Zilch, zero, nil, null, naught, none. I am a neonatologist, and in my ward, we take care of the sick new-born babies. These babies are very sensitive to infection and cannot fight infection like we adults do. One of the super-important practices is adequate hand hygiene by all staff. The other super important practice is correct application of the sterile techniques during sterile procedures. I had been teaching myself, I had invited experts from within my field, from the related fields of microbiology and infectious disease specialists to come and teach my staff about these extremely important aspects of care. If I say these teaching had not effects, that is not completely true. Transiently there was an increased compliance with these practices among a certain number of the staff, but the intended of reducing infection in the ward was absolutely not achieved. Infection raged on at unacceptably high rates.
Only after we had invited an expert psychologist, subspecialized in educational psychology, we got our act of teaching with the aim to change behaviour right
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