Principles of management/PMAN101/Management Overview/Learning Styles
Before delving into the details of management principles, you are required to spend some time finding out about learning styles. While it may seem odd to look at learning styles in the context of a management course, knowing about your own way of learning about things will allow you to be a more effective and empathetic manager. Identifying your own learning style, as well as those of your employees, will help you develop a tool kit of management principles.Think about it - when you are asking an employee to perform some new task or learn some new knowledge, being able to understand how they learn and guiding them along the correct path can only help them, make your job easier, and make your organization more effective.
Read this Learning Styles exercise document about three common learning styles and do the exercises in the included questionnaire. Note: There are many versions of learning styles questionnaires and this is only one version that gives you an insight into your preferred mode of taking in, retaining and sharing information while learning.
When you have completed the questionnaire, post your results about your dominant learning style and a brief reflecction using the WEnotes comment option below.
Also read Section 1.7 of Chapter 1 from the Principles of Management book available from Saylor Academyto learn more about various learning styles.
