From learning styles to learning skills: the executive skills profile

Abstract

Contends that a typology of skills based on a framework of learning styles and experiential learning theory, rather than a framework of job performance or some other personality construct, provides a language and guidance for assessment methods to describe knowledge at the performance level of adaptation. It requires development of the concept of learning skills which are: domainspecific and knowledge‐rich; descriptive of an integrated transaction between the person and the environment; and developed by practice. Reviews and reports data from numerous studies to establish the ESP′s reliability, relational validity, criterion validity and construct validity. The ESP can be used as a vehicle for providing personal and organizational feedback on skills, and expectations and intent regarding skills in jobs and development programmes.

Citation

Boyatzis, R.E. and Kolb, D.A. (1995), "From learning styles to learning skills: the executive skills profile", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 10 No. 5, pp. 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683949510085938