David Gordon

Graham Dawes

Ever ask yourself, "How does this person do that?" ...and wish that you could do it as well? At the beating heart of everything we do is an essential set of patterns. Modeling is the process of eliciting those essential patterns. The Modeling Tutorial puts in your hands a clear and practical process for accessing these otherwise hidden patterns of thinking and behaving. Every chapter builds on the concepts and skills of the previous one, so that by the end you will have a detailed and thorough picture of the process. But The Modeling Tutorial goes beyond merely knowing what to do. In these 17 essays you get more than a detailed explanation of the process of modeling. They plunge you into the subtle processes of human experience, elevating you into someone who has a deep understanding of how human experience actually works. The Modeling Tutorial is illustrated throughout with examples from every day experience to help you grasp both the nuts and bolts of modeling and its underlying concepts. Also included is an annotated transcript of a complete elicitation, and a demonstration of translating that information into a model. If you want to know what makes us tick, The Modeling Tutorial is it.

17 Essays on How Experience Works

The Modeling Tutorial

Ian Cunningham

Organizational leaders, governments and trade unions all agree that learning is fundamental to organizational and economic success. The question is how it should best be supported. The Handbook of Work Based Learning delivers a compelling answer to this question. Learning needs to be based in the realities of organizational life. This unique, groundbreaking handbook provides a definitive guide to the set of strategies, tactics and methods for supporting work based learning. The three main parts of the Handbook, which focus in turn on strategies, tactics and methods, are written for both the learner and the professional developer alike. Each includes a description of the process (strategy, tactic or method), provides examples of what it looks like in action, explains the benefits and the likely limitations and provides a set of operating hints for applying the process. Nothing has been neglected, so alongside detailed descriptions of what to do and how to do it, the authors have included the Declaration on Learning, created by thirteen of the major figures in the field of organizational learning, a section guiding you towards routes for gaining qualifications, along with a well-researched set of references and further reading.

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