By the end of the first quarter of 2020, the COVID pandemic brought almost the entire world to a complete standstill. As a result, people had to stay at home, work from home and learn from home.
All the past data, analytics, and predictive models using advanced machine learning were of little help to predict the new workplace challenges and, most importantly, the response of the stressed workforce.
In such situations (the new normal in the VUCA world), selective learning is dangerous, and Informative learning is helpless. Thus, a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous world requires going beyond from:
Accumulation to Imagination
Intent to Emergent
Availability to Agility
Cognition to Intuition
In the words of Aftab Omer, "In transformative learning, the emphasis shifts from information to imagination, from intended learning to emergent learning."
Imagination for Transformative learning is not about fantasy and pipe dreams. On the contrary, it requires a clear understanding of present reality and working towards new possibilities. It's the imagination that makes virtual learning not just possible but engaging and compelling; it is the imagination that makes boring contents of compliance & regulations interesting with gamified modules and microlearning nuggets.
The skills acquired through Transformative learning are timeless and cause inner self-discoveries. Therefore, the weightage here is not on the IQ but rather the EQ of the learner. It is about building mental resilience and emotional stability.
Sahana Chattopadhyay has brilliantly captured this Organizational Learning shift in the below chart :
Tactic: Giving up the rigidity of rational, linear, logical and embracing uncertainty and ambiguity, waiting for reality to show up. Keep the enquiry on, don't conclude.
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