Learning Styles Helper's Guide
Revised Edition - April 2006
This booklet is the ideal companion to the Learning Styles Questionnaire (both 40 and 80-item versions) and provides comprehensive guidance for all helpers of learning. It explores activities that suit different learning styles and how managers learning styles determine the support individuals can expect.
It also provides practical advice on using learning styles in conjunction with training programmes and personal development plans. This booklet supersedes The Manual of Learning Styles (1992) and no longer contains the Learning Styles Questionnaire.
Buyers Guide
What is the purpose of this booklet?
To explain the thinking behind learning styles and to give all the background needed to help people understand and use more fully the Learning Styles Questionnaire (both 40 and 80-item versions).
Is it for me? What is the target population for this booklet?
This is a guide for managers, trainers, educators and development advisers - in fact anyone who has an interest in helping people learn.
Who wrote the booklet?
Dr Peter Honey is a chartered occupational psychologist, management consultant and author of numerous publications about learning and personal development. For over 30 years his primary interest has been helping people to learn effectively from work-based experiences. He is a Patron of the Campaign for Learning and a trustee of the Lifelong Learning Foundation and the Prisoners’ Education Trust. He is also a Fellow of the RSA, CIPD and ITOL. He was also one of the founder members of the distinguished group that produced A Declaration on Learning.
Dr Alan Mumford has been involved with management training and development and with other aspects of managerial effectiveness for over thirty years. He has increasingly been involved in improving the ways in which managers can learn, especially through their normal work. He is a specialist in manager and director development and is a well-known author of management development books. Alan was also one of the founder members of the distinguished group that produced A Declaration on Learning. He is a Companion of the CIPD.
What difference will it make?
As well as giving you the background to the Learning Styles Questionnaire the guide will help you to:
- administer the questionnaire to a group
- know how to score and interpret the results
- match learning activities with learning styles preferences
- know how learning styles impact during and after training programmes
- run follow-up workshops to reinforce what has been learned.
- know how to use learning styles in creating personal development plans
- understand the implications of learning styles for managers
- answer frequently asked questions about learning styles and the two versions of the questionnaire.
In how many ways could I use the booklet?
You could:
- use the background information to help you increase your understanding of how the Learning Styles Questionnaire works.
- understand how your own learning styles preferences influence the way you help others learn
- see how to use the questionnaire as part of a survey to identify training needs
- design more cost effective training programmes
- use it to ensure that the help you are giving is tailored to suit the particular learning needs of the recipient.
So, why should I but it?
To make it more likely that you can help people to learn more effectively than they otherwise would.
Copyright and Photocopying
All rights reserved. This questionnaire and supporting material is the copyright of Dr Peter Honey and Alan Mumford. It may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise without prior permission of Peter Honey Publications Ltd.