Trainers, teachers, instructors and sports coaches try to get it right the first time with their trainees, students and athletes but invariably end up spending a lot of time trying to correct errors, misconceptions, non-compliance, technique faults and bad habits that somehow develop.
Because these errors were not corrected early, and were inadvertently repeated over and over, i.e., practised, many error patterns are actually learned, habitual and automatic and therefore much harder to eradicate.
For example, John always writes "recieve" instead of "receive"; Mike always has to be reminded to wear his safety goggles; Mary always slices her golf swing; Susan always follow cars too closely when driving; and Geoff is mentally still following the previous aircraft’s pre-flight checklist even though he's converted to another aircraft.
We all know that old habits die hard and many habit patterns are resistant to conventional change methods.
These limitations of traditional teaching, coaching and training programs are apparent in all settings including sport, workplace training, education, therapy and personal development.
Re-training or re-education, the typical solution to these problems, improves things only slowly, if at all.
Although learners may appear to pay attention during instruction and practice their new, correct, skills and knowledge over and over, the next day when placed under performance pressure or when unsupervised and left to their own devices, they seem to have forgotten what they’ve learned and the same habit pattern errors, e.g., old entrenched attitudes, beliefs, misunderstandings, work practices and routines, faulty procedures, poor techniques and unsafe behaviours, resurface.
A prolonged adjustment period and poor transfer of learning are the two most typical outcomes of education, training and coaching efforts worldwide.
All this wastes talent and resources and makes change and transition programs so much less cost-effective. There has to be a better way.
Fortunately, a cognitive science discovery called Old Way New Way® Learning offers:
• A new perspective on the transfer of training problem.
• A cost-effective and user-friendly method for rapid skill and technique correction and habit eradication.
• A fast and practical method of transition and conversion training.
This home page tells the story of habit forces; how and why habits develop; the crucial role habits play in our lives; why old habits die hard; and what you can do to change that using the Old Way New Way® change tool.
Training in Old Way New Way® Learning is available in an online course, either with or without email support, or in a training workshop for small groups.
Online courses are designed by professional educators and follow modern instructional design principles. The Flash based courses can be downloaded and are self-paced, interactive and self contained. Step by step instructions, examples and case studies teach you all about Old Way New Way® Learning and how to apply it to a wide range of human performance problems in your field of interest. Most courses include at least one video segment that shows Old Way New Way being used; some courses contain four video segments. Online courses that come with with email support cost more but are tailor made and provide step by step solutions for your own selection of specific performance problems.
The one-day training workshop provides face-to-face instruction and follow up support for small groups of practitioners, e.g., workplace trainers, sports coaches, flight instructors, driving instructors, nurse educators, teachers, physiotherapists, behaviour change specialists, and so on.
Technique correction
Golf technique correction
Workplace safety program
Manual handling program
Flight instruction (email us)
Type conversion (email us)
Glass cockpit conversion (email us)
Rapid behaviour change
Rapid technique correction
Stopping nail biting
Increasing handwashing compliance
Adult and child spelling program
Teaching Reading: Home User Version
Teaching Reading: Professional Version
Other sports: Rapid technique correction modules
Flight instruction (email us)
Type conversion (email us)
Glass cockpit conversion (email us)
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Change tools for rapidly correcting errors and misconceptions, improving poor technique, changing habit patterns and improving learning transfer in sport, education, workplace training and personal life.
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Updated Wednesday 3 December, 2008 11:38 AM