Putting Learning Styles to Work: An Integrated Approach

Summarizes the Honey and Mumford learning styles questionnaire(LSQ) and their version of the learning cycle. Shows how these were used as tools for more effective learning with a group of managers. First,personal develop ment plans were produced, using the strong and low learning style preferences as a guide to the development solutions most likely to be effective. Uses actual cases to illustrate. Second, the LSQ results were used in the design of a development programme for these individuals as a group. The learning cycle was deployed in the overall design, the learning style preferences were taken as the basis for development, not just as a tool for analysis. An off‐the‐job programme assisted managers to understand not only their own preferred learning but that of others.