Learning Tactics Inventory : Participant Survey & Workbook

Dalton

• Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781604915501
• eBook ISBN: 9781604917130
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Leadership
• Index: Business

You'll use this tool to discover how you learn and how you can adopt new learning strategies. The Participant Survey and Workbook enables you to score your inventory, interpret the results, and apply your discoveries on the job. With the help of a world-renowned leadership authority, you'll draw more out of your professional experiences than ever before!

Interpretation Sheet

Directions: To interpret your results, graph the totals from the four columns, A, B, C, and D, from the scoring sheet onto the charts below. If your exact score is not shown, simply mark your score in the approximate percentile block.

Look for scores that fall below the 50^th percentile. These reflect tactics that you use less frequently than does half of the population in the database. Return to your questionnaire and identify all of the statements on which you gave yourself 1’s or 2’s. Record those tactics in the space below.

Tactics rarely used:

Reflect on how your failure to use these tactics has influenced your ability or willingness to learn from experience. Consciously try to use these tactics as you work to become a more versatile learner. Note that because these learning behaviors are influenced by your personality and how you think about things, trying them out will feel awkward and uncomfortable at first, like changing your golf stroke or your tennis grip. If you persist and practice, there can be a payoff in terms of new talents and skills.

Also note the tactics that you use most often, questions that you scored as 4 or 5.

Tactics used most often:

How has this way of learning helped you? Do you misuse or overuse these tactics? What has been the result?

A General Pattern of Low Scores

If you find that your scores fall below the 50^th percentile on all four bar graphs, there are several possible explanations.

1. Some people have never spent any time thinking about how they learn. For that reason they find this exercise difficult and so use low or mid-range responses when answering the questions. If this seems to explain your scores, you may want to think some more about how you learn and the...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• The Learning Tactics Inventory Self-Assessment Survey
• Background
• Four Sets of Learning Behaviors
• Scoring Sheet
• Interpretation Sheet
• Personal Development Plan
• Summary
• About the Center for Creative Leadership