Supreme Court Gardens 1989.
““Learning is finding out what you already know.
Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.
You are all learners, doers, teachers.”
― Richard Bach”
It was 1989.
Shaun and I were chatting on a bench in the Supreme Court Gardens.
Sometime during our conversation, we co-created the idea of designing and delivering training that would give a student the knowledge and skills to do something.
That ‘something’ was whatever it was that the student had to do as a result of the training.
By working backwards, a trainer should go to the workplace, observe what workers do - or more correctly produce or perform - and teach students how to do those things.
In 1989, Shaun and I Discovered Objectives.
Later, we also discovered that Peter Drucker wrote about Objectives in 1954.
Maybe he thought it up sitting on a park bench.
For Shaun and me, it didn’t matter. Indeed, knowing that a world-renowned management guru (and no doubt many lesser-known experts) had already written about ‘our’ idea, only strengthened our sense of competence and creativity.
Leaving us to remind our students that they know as much as we did.