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4MAT Concept & Conscious Competence

“People grow in the direction of the questions they ask.”
– David Cooperrider

The 4MAT Model is a framework for designing brain-based learning experiences. It is also a model for effective delivery. One of the first things that training designers realize when they begin to design using 4MAT, is that the delivery focus shifts in each part of the Learning Cycle.

4MAT LEARNING CYCLE

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In the first part of the Cycle, Engage, the delivery method is dialogue. The question is the primary tool for successfully creating the learning climate needed. A great question is open-ended and provokes the learner. When crafted and posed well, questions can create movement.

In the first part of a learning session, we move the learner from individual expectation to group expectation.

Engaging and Establishing Expectation

What question, if answered, might make the biggest difference in the future of the issue we are exploring?
What are you interested in exploring around this topic?
If you could accomplish one thing today, what would that be?

We invite the group to see the common themes, mutual interests and patterns that are emerging:

Seeing the Patterns and Big Picture

What insights are you gaining? What is emerging in your conversations?
What are we not seeing?
If you had to identify a common thread in all the conversation in the room, what would it be?
What surprises you?

We harness the momentum created and channel it into the content we will be focused on learning and implementing:

Moving Into Action

What would it take to move this forward?
What is the next step?
What do we want to accomplish?
What do the experts have to say about this (leading into lecture)?

This month, in the 4MAT 4Business blog, we will be exploring facilitator questions. Join the blog and we’ll keep you in the conversation.

Cheers,
Jeanine O'Neill-Blackwell
President/CEO, 4MAT 4BUSINESS