What did I learn today May 22nd?

Today my learning has been overwhelmingly intentional. The context was learning for work - my book project. My intention was to add to my knowledge about the strategic development project by interviewing five more people. My personal learning strategy involved.  Preparation - 2h reading background material and formulating questions. Interviewing - I spent about 4.4h talking to people in a structured way.  The interviews also provided me with an opportunity to try and build a relationship that would lead to more exchanges of information and personal knowledge ie a personalised working relationship which I followed up with a an email thank you and a request to complete a short questionnaire the next day. Reflection - about 2 h during the day and on the journey home thinking about what was said and identifying important learning points.Overall I think my personal learning strategy lasted about 9h and an additional 30mins to reflect on what and how I had learnt.

So what did I learn? At the obvious level it was

1) Relational knowledge - personal relationships with five new people

2) Their personal knowledge of the work they had undertaken and the ways in which they had brought about change in the organisation

3) Conceptual - their understandings about the way innovation/change had been accomplished

4) Awareness of my own learning strategy.

At a deeper and more sustained level I will do something with this new knowledge. Once I have the transcripts this knowledge will be organised and connected to my existing knowledge to help tell the story of change.