I have realized that to grow professionally, you need to move to a higher level of expressive forms than just explanation.
When you explain, you rationalize the already chosen path and try imposing a point of view through verbal or written medium.
In explanation, agreements are muted or disagreements immediately surface.
However expressiveness takes a radically different approach. Expressiveness let the audience participate with the level of your involvement with the subject.
You may draw, sing, dance, seek visuals, draw, take pictures, replete with analogies, humor, ask for points of view, Quote research; just simple: seek involvement from others.
Once the affinity levels are known, there is almost only one choice: Reciprocate and Resonate the topic and not necessarily the speaker views.
Thus expressiveness is more rational, logical, sensible, expandable, creative job that needs practice.
How have you expressed in a situation and how many got on board with you?
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Expressiveness is an art by itself and it stands in a hgigher footing than offering Explanation.
ReplyDeleteExplanation merely involves pointing out the details connected with a study while expressiveness involves driving home the points involved in such a manner to hit the nail on the "HEAD'. To achieve this end the expressor has to articulate himself in all possible manner realising that the recipient is compelled to interact and do not feel delicate to come out of his web.In my classes I have even gone to the degree of mimicking or drawing examples that would interest the recipient and at the end I really felt that I have fully expressed myself on the subject,which reached me by a voluntary feedback from the recipient.
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Wow. That is a real life case study.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the experience Sir.
The comment from Mr. Govindarajan reminded me of the book, "Making it Stick" where the art of storytelling is deemed one of the highest. His experience is one I closely identify with having been a teacher myself.
ReplyDeleteStorytelling, a form of expressiveness/expression, is also one of the most effective cognitive strategies that helps recall and assimilation.
The following comment highlights why "explanation" often fails to deliver effective training--whether in the classroom or in an online mode.
Quoting: "Explanation merely involves pointing out the details..." is so true. With adult learners especially, it makes for poor teaching strategy, especially for complex, intensive content.
Expressiveness, on the other hand, requires involvement of the presenter/trainer/teacher and a desire to reach out, to truly communicate and ensure the message has been driven home.
I have just been reading a book on Training and Performance that sites "expressiveness" or "image-rich presentation" as one of the key strategies to overcome deficiencies in meta-cognitive skills. The authors define "image-rich" as anything that helps the learners to connect and see the patterns--be they stories, analogies, experiences, mimicry, drawings, etc.
When I read this post and subsequently the comment, all the pieces came together.
Thanks Sahana for the quotes and multitude research comments. Adding one more to the annotations...
ReplyDeleteEarly in the book "Going Visual" from John Wiley and Sons has a quote from Phillippe Kahn "If a picture is worth thousand words, then a picture with text is worth 10000 words.... When you add audio to pictures and text, that is worth a million words."
While this is true for electronic forms of expression, that we practice in e-Learning, the human touch expressions have gone beyond to even start revolutions. Tapping it corporately would be the key for a long lasting success.
Yes, the "human-touch expression" can create Tribes...and move and shake the world!
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