by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
We work in the real world; not in one where what we wish is true. Sometimes we simply need to teach a little.<\/strong><\/p>\n A: I told these people what to do…and AARGH (pained expression interrupts speech).<\/p>\n B: How did you teach them how to do that?<\/p>\n A: What? What do you mean?<\/p>\n B: That task. Before you told them to do that task, how did you teach them how to do it?<\/p>\n A: Teach? What?<\/p>\n B: You know. They didn’t know how to do what you wanted, so you taught them how before you told them to do it, right?<\/p>\n A: Teach? What?<\/p>\n B: Let me try again. These people didn’t know how to do what you wanted. You taught them how to do it. How did you teach them how to do it?<\/p>\n A: Teach? What? I’m not a teacher.<\/p>\n B: (a least we are making some progress) So you assumed that they knew how to do that task?<\/p>\n A: Assumed? What? Teach? What?<\/p>\n B: You told me last week that your organization did unique things, things no one else could do, that is why you are a leader in the market or something.<\/p>\n A: Right. We are.<\/p>\n B: Well, if what you do is unique, your colleagues couldn’t learn it anywhere else or from anyone except you. Right?<\/p>\n A: silence.<\/p>\n B: They couldn’t learn it in college or elsewhere. So, you have to teach them before they can do it. Right?<\/p>\n A: Teach? What? Of course they know how to do this. They must have learned this somewhere.<\/p>\n B: What did you see or hear to convince you that they already knew how to do this task?<\/p>\n A: See? Hear? Teach? Look, people need to know some stuff to get by here.<\/p>\n B: Yes. I agree. So, what teaching methods did you employ to teach them so they would know some stuff?<\/p>\n A: Teach? What?<\/p>\n B: Who taught you how to teach? Who taught you how to supervise?<\/p>\n A: No one. I just knew.<\/p>\n B: Perhaps that explains the current situation. Perhaps we can start this conversation again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips We work in the real world; not in one where what we wish is true. Sometimes we simply need to teach a little. A: I told these people what to do…and AARGH (pained expression interrupts speech). B: How did you teach them how to do that? A: What? What do you mean? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,102,67],"tags":[142,217,187],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-teaching","category-work","tag-learning","tag-teaching","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}