Something New
I am a Learning & Development Consultant and sit in the Human Resources area. If you walk by my desk, you will notice a small card, carefully pinned to the board. It is the Ontario Working at Heights certificate from a course I attended a few years ago. Given my role, I often get a lot of questions about it. While the reason why I attended the course was to convert parts of it to an online module, there was a surprise learning. I found out more about myself as a learner and how my brain processes new information than I did about working at heights. The first part of that course was a lecture on the key concepts. This was the part where I felt I was in that room only for the bagels and doughnuts (they were delicious!). However, in the second half, the instructor took us to the warehouse and we got to see real ladders, harnesses, etc. I climbed a ladder for the first time and it was a great experience. That day, I found out that I learn better by actually doing the job. It h