[Neurons] 2018 Neurons #26 DELIBERATE PRACTICE FEEDBACK

Sun Jun 17 20:38:00 EDT 2018

From: L. Michael Hall

2018 Neurons #26

June 18, 2018

DELIBERATE PRACTICE FEEDBACK

If you have not seek this kind of feedback, it is absolutely a feedback like
none other.  And more than that- it is the kind of feedback that according
to Eric Anders makes for true expertise.  This is what he wrote about in his
classic work, The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
(2006) and it was there that he identified the 10-year rule (the 10,000
hours of deliberate practice) that enables one to reach expertise.

"The core assumption of deliberate practice is that expert performance is
acquired gradually and that effective improvement of performance requires
the opportunity to find suitable training tasks that the performer can
master sequentially-typically the design of training tasks and monitoring of
the attained performance is done by a teacher or a coach.  Deliberate
practice presents performers with tasks that are initially outside their
current realm of reliable performance, yet can be mastered within hours of
practice by concentrating on critical aspects and gradually refining
performance through repetition after feedback.  Hence the requirement for
concentration sets deliberate practice apart from both mindless, routine
performance and playful engagement, as the latter two types of activities
would, if anything, merely strengthen the current mediating cognitive
mechanisms, rather than modify them to allow increases in the level of
performance." (2006, p. 692)

Malcolm Gladwell popularized the idea of the 10-year rule in Outliers as did
others.  The idea is that mere practice is not sufficient, it rather takes a
very special kind of practice.  Anders call it deliberate practice and set
forth the criteria for that very special kind of practice in the above
paragraph.

1) Designed to improve performance.             

                                           2) The action is repeatable.

3) The action is sharply defined.                        

                                           4) Feedback to it is continuous.

5) The action is a stretch: beyond current 

              6) Action requires focused concentration.

              7) Action is not easy, not inherently fun.

I bring this up because over the years we have developed a very unique kind
of feedback, Deliberate Practice Feedback.  For years we have used this in
Trainers' Training as we have identified the required skills for being an
effective presenter as well as a whole set of sub-skills.  It is the
sub-skills that enable a person to practice over and over under supervision
that allows one to stretch beyond current skill level to the next level,
progressively moving toward expertise.

As recently as last week we discovered how we could to do this kind of
feedback in learning the coaching skills.  Because we have more than a dozen
sub-skills for each coaching skill, we are now able to provide deliberate
feedback for them.  What's unique about the feedback is that it is given in
real time and the person is given in that very moment, a chance to do it
again.  We think of it in the same way that a movie director wants to get
the scene right and so does a "Take 2" or "Take 3" etc. until the production
reaches a required standard.  

If you were to join us in NSTT or in ACMC, you will find that from time to
time the trainer or benchmarker will make an interruption, ask if you got
the response that you wanted.  If not, you would then get some feedback to
shape what you did and then ask you to do a "Take 2."   This would repeat 2
to 4 times.  The design is to bring to conscious awareness what you are
doing, how you are doing it, and the effect its having.  Then with that,
giving you a chance to do some deliberate practice around a sharply defined
action that's part of expertise.

I am writing about this also because in just two weeks from now we begin
NSTT in Colorado for 2018.  Nowhere is there a trainers' training that has
developed as extensive a list of sub-skills and offers continuous and
in-the-moment feedback during the presentations.  If that is of interest to
you, I have attached an Application Form and a Brochure of NSTT.

Reference:

Ericsson, K. Anders; Charness, Neil; Feltovich, Paul; Hoffman, Robert.
(2006 Ed.).  The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance.
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director 

Neuro-Semantics 

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