Individual Learning Styles

Individual learning styles have been proposed by many learning and development theorists. Honey and Mumford defined four learning styles:

• Activist: here and now, gregarious, seek challenge and immediate experience, open-minded, bored with implementation.
• Reflector: stand back, gather data, ponder and analyse, delay reaching conclusions, listen before speaking, thoughtful.
• Theorist: think things through, are logical, rational, objective and assimilate disparate facts into coherent theories, reject subjectivity and flippancy.
• Pragmatist: seek and try out new ideas, practical, down-to-earth, enjoy problem solving and decision-making quickly, bored with long discussions.

Articulate appreciates the nuances in training delivery required to engage participants on their own terms.