Conventional wisdom can be misleading when unchallenged … and there is a lot of unchallenged conventional wisdom about training and learning.
In the UK, we have a fabulous show called “QI”. The show's participants are celebrities (comedians mostly). They are asked a series of questions, and they buzz in to give an answer and win points. The program makers set traps by using misleading conventional wisdom within the questions. When a celebrity falls into the trap, they lose 10 points from their score. The winner of the show usually just about breaks into a positive score.
Apart from giving us inspiration for a brilliant learning activity, what does this tell us about training? It tells us that we should challenge the conventional wisdom of training. Those things we accept as true without ever questioning.
To that end, I thought I’d try an experiment and put together a training and learning Myths and Facts carousel based on current research.