34: Creating Results with Effective Learning Objectives, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2012
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.
The term “learning objectives” might not show up in our everyday conversations, but it’s an important tool for leaders to use in order to develop others. In this episode, we’ll explain what a learning objective is, how to create an effective one, and how to use it in order to create results.
Instructional design most often starts with creating learning objectives.
Most people start-and-finish with topics, but they are not specific enough and can lead to a lack of alignment on expectations.
- For example, the expectation to “know how to use Microsoft Word”. Most people only use 2% of features of a Word Processor. One person’s idea of “knowing” Word can be quite different than another’s.
- Another example, “Understand how the economy effects small businesses in the US”. How would I know if someone “understood” that or not?
It isn’t about topics!
“The critical question, therefore, is not what topics to cover but what you want the participants to value, understand, or do with those topics.” -Silberman, Active Training, p. 41
There types of learning and we should address each of these in learning objectives:
- Cognitive – what we know
- Behavioral – what we can do
- Affective – our motivation our knowledge and behaviors
These components of an effective learning objective are from Mager, who wrote six books related to learning that should be on every leader’s bookshelf, called The Six Pack.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode 34, airing on April 23rd, 2012. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. maximizing human potential. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to coaching for leaders. This is the show for leaders who want to engage and develop others |
| 0:22.0 | without relying on authority or sanctions. |
| 0:25.8 | Whether you're a seasoned leader or leading people for the first time, improving your skills |
| 0:31.0 | will drive your success, and most importantly, the success of others. |
| 0:35.0 | This week's topic is creating results with effective learning objectives. |
| 0:40.0 | Well hello everyone and welcome to another episode of coaching for leaders. My name's |
| 0:46.0 | Dave Stahoviac and I am coming to you here from our studio in Orange County, California |
| 0:51.6 | and I'm back today with Bonnie Stahoviac, who is my partner in crime here at Innovate Learning and also my dear, dear smart talented wife who has a tremendous background in training and I'm glad that she's here because we are continuing our series on training that started with episode number 30. If you are joining us for the first time |
| 1:14.8 | welcome. This is the place and this is the show for you if you want to really develop |
| 1:20.8 | people who want to be led by you and have an organization of people who |
| 1:25.7 | um build trust and really want to contribute to something larger and so I'm so glad that you have decided to join us. |
| 1:34.7 | I'm glad to be back again Dave I love the subject of learning and how it integrates |
| 1:38.8 | with helping people be a more effective leaders and coaches and I'm also so glad to be here for |
| 1:44.4 | a podcast and not for a video because Luke's drool that he left on my sleeve on my |
| 1:50.6 | sweatshirt still has not dried so I'm thinking it's probably good |
| 1:53.4 | that we're doing just audio for today and I'm gonna skip the video guest |
| 1:58.0 | starring for at least now for today. That's the beauty of audio podcasting and actually you reminded me that we are now doing |
| 2:06.4 | video on our website as well. So you can actually check out some of our quickcoach videos that |
| 2:11.6 | I've been producing over at coaching for leaders.com |
| 2:15.4 | and by the way that's also the place to go if you have comments about today's topic we don't |
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