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Learning styles
Another challenge in becoming an effective coach is to adapt
your coaching style so that it is consistent with the other per-
son’s learning style. There are many different ways of looking
at learning styles but probably the best to use in workplace
coaching is the model developed by Peter Honey and Alan
Mumford (which itself was inspired by the work of David Kolb).
In the Honey and Mumford model there are four learning styles.
1 Activists
A preference for ‘hands-on’ learning by doing. Activists tend to
have a high energy and low attention span so it is best to provide
them with information in bite size ...