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The Importance of Context

When it comes to creating learning experiences creating the context is very important. That might sound obvious, but it is often not.

This is perhaps one of my oldest thoughts but I had not quite figured out two things.

One, that creating context, especially when you are a consultant is tough - because it goes beyond knowing the jargon - and goes into knowing the industry and requires a significant of contextual knowledge while at the same time have the humility of knowing that you are not the domain expert. This we were able to do successfully in a couple of projects to good effect.

The second part of building context is the time and energy it takes to do so. And most companies either do not have the time or the money or both to do so.

There is a neglected third element that many learning consultants wrongly believe that their work is beyond context - it is not - not by a long shot.

But think about it - if you can build in greater context, your learning experiences are that much richer. 
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