Reflecting on Creating Objectives
Ernest Addison
Aspiring HR and L&D Professional Driven to Learn and Contribute | MBA Candidate at the University of Texas at Tyler
On January 31, 2023, as a class, we met in person to discuss creating objectives for our personal learning projects. My personal learning project for the semester was that I am going to be participating in the University of Houston's Rise Diversity Leadership Certificate Program. To return to the topic of creating objectives, we were required to create individual learning objectives as a class as part of the personal learning project for part 1. The process of creating objectives involves looking at the needs you want the learner to meet. A need is considered a gap between where the current learner is and where you want the learner to be.
For example, my personal learning need is that I had chosen to do DEI training in order to improve my competencies in diversity, equity, and inclusion. The objectives that I had created for my personal learning were:
Within the next three months, I want to be able to define diversity, inclusion, and equity strategies.
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Within the next three months, I want to be able to incorporate my DEI skills and strategies into my everyday life successfully.
Reflecting on creating my own objectives, it was important that my objectives aligned with the needs I wanted to meet for myself. When it comes to creating objectives, it is important that you align them with your needs. A tool that has helped me and that I would recommend you use is Bloom's taxonomy. Bloom's taxonomy is a list of verbs that are categorized into a learning hierarchy. The hierarchy goes from remember being at the bottom, then understanding; above understanding is applying; then analyzing; above analyzing is evaluating; and at the top is creating. A lot of the time, people like to use understand as a verb for their objectives but understand is too subjective in that it is hard to measure. The reason you have to measure your objective is because you have to assess and evaluate your learning experience during the evaluation process. The evaluation process is important because it shows you where to go in the future when it comes to following up.
HR Learning & Organizational Development Consultant at ACC Ι Learning Advocate Ι Certified Leadership Development Coach
1 年Wow Ernest! Thanks for sharing the evolving journey of the learning process. This is a great article for leaders who really want to improve and maximize the way that they learn. You make a great point by explaining that understanding is just the surface level of learning while applying and creating are higher levels of learning.