A short overview of how learning to learn can enhance your success.

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Understanding Your Learning Styles to
Enhance your Development
General Snapshot – But It Requires
Focus!

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• Gain an insight into your preferred learning styles
• Discover the different varieties and flavors of learning
styles
• Learn how to build on your strengths.
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Learning styles are various approaches of
taking in, organizing and processing
information.
Have you ever wondered how our learning
influences success and happiness?
What is a learning style?

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Overview of different
styles
1.Visual learners
2.Auditory learners
3.Reading/writing-
preference learners
4.Kinesthetic learners Which one are you?
Do you have a blend of these?
What happensif you just have one
style?

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Visual
Learners
• Pictures, plots, charts, diagrams
• Films, demonstrations, seeing practical work
• Memorize by visualizing the information (e.g. words)
• Like making illustrations in notes
• Loves to use colours and diagrams
What happens if you are a visual learner, but don’t
focus?

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Auditory
Learners
• Listening to information,does not like to read
• Listening to music, etc - while studying
• Reading out aloud to themselves
• Oral exams
What happens if you enjoy listening, but don’t focus?

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Read/Write
Preference
• Written explanations
• Reading books
• Written notes
• Post-it everywhere
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Kinesthetic Learners
• Learn by doing things
• Have difficulty sitting passively through lectures
• Move around while revising things
• Like experiments, group activities etc.

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Step vs Ah ha
Sequential Learners Global Learners
Prefer a linear, step-by-step
process
Absorb information almost
randomly without seeing the
connections, then suddenly
“get it” –its like the AH HA
moment

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Sensing Learners
(concrete)
Intuitive Learners
(abstract)
• Like to solve facts
•well-established methods
• Patient with details and good at
memorizing facts
• Prefer observable, concrete
information
• Prefer discovering possibilities
and relationships
• Like innovation and dislike
repetition
• Grasp abstract concepts
• Have difficulty memorizing facts
Other styles

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Active Learners Reflective Learners
• Same as kinesthetic
• Understand by doing
• Prefer working in groups
• Have difficulty sitting passively
through lectures
• Think about information before
applying it
• Prefer working alone
Other styles

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• People are a mix of various styles.
• Understanding your style, will help you focus
on the things which make the biggest
difference.
Conclusions
Do you know what your learning style is?
How can it help you build enhanced
confidence?

13. The Magic Key
• The key is awareness, it is about
understandinghow you think you think?
• It is about turning the key to unlock the power
of your mind and what it can do.
• Challenging yourself is one of the best
learning tips I provide!