Training for Results
Helping people to take responsibility and improve performance through Cooperative Learning.
Cooperative Learning is about People Developing People by:
ü Acknowledging that we sink or swim together
ü Promoting Face to Face interaction
ü Preventing ‘social loafing’
ü Developing interpersonal & small group skills
ü Reflecting on performance
The Results Method of training is based upon Cooperative Learning because it promotes:
Cooperative efforts are more productive and sustainable than competitive and individualistic efforts for the following reasons:
1. Positive Interdependence acknowledges that we ‘sink or swim’ together as:
• Every member’s efforts are required and indispensable for group success and
• Each member has a unique contribution to make to the joint effort based on their resources, role and task responsibilities.
2. Face to Face Interaction promotes each other’s success by:
• Teaching one’s knowledge to others
• Explaining how to solve problems
• Checking for understanding
• Discussing new ideas
• Connecting present with past learning.
3. Individual & Group Accountability promotes each other’s success (and prevents ‘social loafing’) by:
• Keeping the group size small to maintain greater individual accountability
• One to one reviews and feedback
• Group observations and feedback
• Peer review
• Peer coaching
4. Interpersonal & Small Group Skills are developed and practiced, such as:
• Leadership
• Decision making
• Trust building
• Communication
• Conflict resolution.
5. Group Processing causes people to reflect on:
• How well goals are achieved
• Maintaining effective working relationships
• What member behaviours are helpful (or not)
• Deciding what behaviours to preserve or change.