Today we looked at skill acquisition and received a very interesting talk form the National Sailing Coach, Harvey Hillary. Everyone took a clear interest in the presentation, which talked about segmenting the process of learning into four key stages; components, shaping, diversion and automatic.
It was fascinating to know about how they implement this coaching methodology with their performance sailors and whilst it was not wholly relevant to me in my role, it did make me consider how people learn and take on information in a broader sense. He went on to talk about planning and the importance of reviewing plans; plan, do, review!
I am certainly guilty of spending much of my time planning and doing but little on reviewing progress. It always feels a little bit of a luxury to look back on a project and assess the outcome, especially when the next project has already started, but from what we learnt today, invaluable in terms of understanding what you did well and what could be done better.
'...the more that's measured, the less that is left to chance!'
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