Are you a Sponge, a Shield or a Sword!
This was what I asked the audience when I was checking their homework.
During our assignments, we do PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) on the MOM (minutes of meeting) agreed upon with the target company.
It's but natural for anyone to get embarrassed if s/he gets a feeling of being 'checked'.
But coaching does warrant finding out if the things are going on as planned (studying rather than 'checking'). That's why PDCA cycle is sometimes called PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle!
Course correction during the study cycle is the natural sequel.
How do people respond then!
Some try to defend why they couldn't do what they were supposed to do.
Some come out with swords to argue out how that what was agreed to itself was wrong.
Some others confess if they did not do it, while few of them ask for help having tried but 'failed'.
The last category is the real learners!
I call such a learner as a sponge. When someone comes with an attitude of absorbing new learning (a sponge), s/he ends up getting more of it (more of the better).
In the learning field, both the former categories, the shields that defend, and the swords that come out, are ultimately the losers. Because they think they are the best!
The sponges think that there are better ways than what they tried. There's no the best in their dictionary. Only better!
Because better is always better than the best!!
Former is a moving target heading towards excellence!
Because of complacency the latter may end up being stagnant!!
So it's upto us to be a Sponge, a Shield or a Sword!
Being Sponge is a More-Win-and-Less-Lose!
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