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Understanding Your Learning Styles to

Enhance your Development

General Snapshot – But It Requires

Focus!

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• Gain an insight into your preferred learning styles

• Discover the different varieties and flavors of learning styles

• Learn how to build on your strengths.

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Learning styles are various approaches of taking in, organizing and processing information.

Have you ever wondered how our learning influences success and happiness?

What is a learning style?

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Overview of different styles

1.Visual learners

2.Auditory learners

3.Reading/writing-preference learners

4.Kinesthetic learners Which one are you? Do you have a blend of these? What happens if you just have one style?

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Visual Learners

• Pictures, plots, charts, diagrams

• Films, demonstrations, seeing practical work

• Memorize by visualizing the information (e.g. words)

• Like making illustrations in notes

• Loves to use colours and diagrams

What happens if you are a visual learner, but don’t focus?

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Auditory Learners

• Listening to information, does not like to read

• Listening to music, etc - while studying

• Reading out aloud to themselves

• Oral exams

What happens if you enjoy listening, but don’t focus?

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Read/Write Preference

• Written explanations

• Reading books

• Written notes

• Post-it everywhere

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Kinesthetic Learners

• Learn by doing things

• Have difficulty sitting passively through lectures

• Move around while revising things

• Like experiments, group activities etc.

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Step vs Ah ha

Sequential Learners Global Learners

Prefer a linear, step-by-step

process

Absorb information almost

randomly without seeing the

connections, then suddenly

“get it” –its like the AH HA

moment

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Sensing Learners

(concrete)

Intuitive Learners

(abstract)

• Like to solve facts

•well-established methods

• Patient with details and good at

memorizing facts

• Prefer observable, concrete

information

• Prefer discovering possibilities

and relationships

• Like innovation and dislike

repetition

• Grasp abstract concepts

• Have difficulty memorizing facts

Other styles

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Active Learners Reflective Learners

• Same as kinesthetic

• Understand by doing

• Prefer working in groups

• Have difficulty sitting passively

through lectures

• Think about information before

applying it

• Prefer working alone

Other styles

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• People are a mix of various styles.

• Understanding your style, will help you focus on the things which make the biggest difference.

Conclusions

Do you know what your learning style is? How can it help you build enhanced confidence?

The Magic Key

• The key is awareness, it is about understanding how you think you think?

• It is about turning the key to unlock the power of your mind and what it can do.

• Challenging yourself is one of the best learning tips I provide!