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Behavioral Change: What Corporate Training Desires and What Experience Transfer Inspires

When you receive corporate training, your company is investing in you. They are offering you a large information dump, maybe paired with some exercises. They want you to learn the information, reflect on it, and apply it. In other words, your company is giving you training because they want your behaviour to change.

Investment in Critical Thinking Practice
Leads to Behavioral Change

Corporate Training

Application & Critical Thinking

Behaviour Change

Stories Over Fear

Stephen Grosz says in his book The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, “People don’t change because they are frightened. They change because they are haunted.” In other words, teaching you scary information won’t make you change your behavior. But sharing stories may make you choose to act differently. This is important because the best tool to change a person’s behaviour is by having a profound experience, and a close second is through experience transfer, which is what occurs when we engage in a great story.

Ideas for Behavioural Change

Keep reading if you want to create positive behavioural change! We will be talking about ideas for some parts of every company, including: You are about to learn how Experience Transfer can: Make people want to change, according to psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, Help people gain insight, with research from psychologist Dr. Gary Klein, and Shift a paradigm, according to philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn.

Experience Transfer Can Trigger a Desire to Change

Suppose you’re taking a safety course. Maybe you need it to meet a compliance requirement. Maybe you’re really interested. Either way, your instructor will probably tell you stories about times when things went wrong, and people got hurt. Remember Stephen Grosz and his book? He says that “People don’t change because they are frightened. They change because they are haunted.” But how do we make someone feel haunted?