Exploring Experience

Experience is a key ingredient to determining competence. There is a “70/20/10” model that describes a view on optimal sources and weighted proportions of workplace learning.  Looking at it in reverse, the lowest proportion of learning comes from formal instruction, at 10%.  It is well known that training occurs at a moment in time. Next is feedback, interactions and relationships, which accounts for 20% of a person’s learning. This makes sense; feedback is essential to learning. The big one, the 70%, is the experiences faced in the workplace, particularly the challenging and memorable ones.  Gain experience by doing the work.