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20/20 Hindsight
The
last step in the learning process requires participants to analyze
each decision they made in order to determine how they could improve
their performance “if they were able to do it all over again.”
This “retrospective” exercise has two objectives:
The first is to make sure managers identify their mistakes and
learn how to avoid repeating them on the job.
The
second objective is to assure that they learn what successful
experience can teach them. This
decision analysis step is important because it assures that
participants in Accelerated Experience Programs™ learn what they need
to know to be successful in their jobs.
Up until now participants have learned from the successful
experience of other managers in their decision teams. At this point,
they have the opportunity to learn from the successful experience of
other teams.
The
Accelerated Experience Method™ has a decided learning advantage over
relying on conventional experience alone to develop managers. Accelerated Experience Programs® are effective in teaching
managers before they are tested on the job.
Conventional
experience does it the other way around.
It tests managers before it teaches them. To make matters worse, it lets a great many of them fail
before they learn what they need to know to succeed.
The
Accelerated Experience Method™ is quite different. It lets managers make mistakes; but, unlike conventional
experience, it makes a special effort to ensure that they learn from
their mistakes so they will avoid repeating them on the job.
Conventional
management development programs
are concerned with problem analysis, but not decision analysis.
Yet, assisting managers to assess the outcome of their
decisions is a powerful way to help them learn how to make better
decisions as well as to improve their decision-making ability.
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