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In-House Training: Part 2 - Teach or learn?

In the second part of this series, Anne Oldfield and Sarah Emerson set out the circumstances in which learning happens best

‘Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth learning can be taught’– Oscar Wilde

Managers can often feel frustrated that they are investing time and energy into training their teams, only to wonder if they are bashing their head against a brick wall, wondering why the team simply aren’t always ‘getting it’. It can be helpful to ask if we’re so busy thinking about what we are teaching that we have forgotten to think about whether the trainees are learning, what they are learning, and what their experience of that learning is.

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