This is part of the Layers of Performance framework: Click Here to read the introduction.
The next layer of the Layers of Performance framework is education and training. In order to succeed in any endeavour we must have some degree of education and training. We must understand the value of knowledge, whether we have it and, if not, where we can get it. Education and training helps to build on the foundation provided by our personal talents, cognitive ability and emotional intelligence to grow our competencies and skills. The aim of education and training is to increase a person’s knowledge and to apply that knowledge
Education and training can be used, at least to some extent, to compensate for deficiencies in other areas of the Layers of Performance. We can also use other people’s education and training to make up for some of our own knowledge gaps.
There are two broad kinds of knowledge:
An important misconception about knowledge is “knowledge is power”. We would argue that in this context, the ability to organise, use and apply knowledge effectively is power. Indeed, many would consider the ability to pass on knowledge a source of still greater power.
Education and training can be both formal and informal. Formal meaning it is a structured learning program facilitated with a specific purpose in mind. Informal meaning that it is not structured – it is the things that we learn by experience and being in the moment: tacit knowledge.
There are two over aching types of education and training, that can both be either formal or informal, these are:
We need both theoretical education and practical education to grow our performance. In order to effectively apply a concept we must first understand that concept.
Through education and training our knowledge grows over time and, when applied, helps to increase our experience.