Managers Developing Learning Abilities at Home

Abstract

In this article Alan Mumford argues that it is not only possible but essential to learn from real‐life activities, by the identification and use of real experience rather than simulated experiences in a classroom or vicariously from a book. Home experience offers different but similar opportunities to those available but often not seized at work‐‐analysis, reflection, discussion, feedback‐‐plus the opportunity to experiment with different kinds of behaviour. He then shows how individual approaches to learning may differ, and how these differences may be identified through the Honey‐Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire, and how individuals can build up their learning strengths.