Transformative learning by Mike White

 (1) Goals/objectives: Mental Well Being is translated into Physical Well Being and finding balance in your work life can aid you to this point. Lean Change management assists employees in finding balance with creating better processes through eliminating waste internal and external to the processes most employees use in their daily management systems. Transformational Learning can help the employee understand and assist the employee in ownership of the problems they face instead of feeling weighed down by the possibility that no-one wants to let the employee fix the problem. 

 

(2) Rationales: 

•  Mezirow’s psychocritical approach: learners share with others their experience which is conflicted or disoriented from their previous perspectives/assumptions, and take actions to change their pre-existing perspectives/assumptions to better understand the current disoriented experience. Mezirow’s approach has 10 steps/phases, in which experience, critical reflection, reflective discourse and action are four main components. Applying these main points for directing humans into a better state of existence can lead to some very fundamental transformations psychologically and mentally. Satisfaction in life increases your gratefulness and gratefulness increases your ability to love unconditionally. 

• Tell us how you want to use these main ideas to frame your design: 

• Information saturation campaign. Sharing this link in emails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKEWk4oWmjYLinks to an external site.
• Blanket Flyers: Dropped to the students during Lean sessions so that they can realize that time management can duplicate into healthy work life mental health. 

 

(3) Design:

• Based on the main ideas in the Rationales, please design the main components of your project.

• Discuss how Lean Change Management would have created a different perception of the: 

  1. Disorienting Dilemma- The trigger for most process changes, what the employee seeking training has sought better understanding from internal training for. Causation into the internal professional development. 

  2. Self-Examination- How did this trigger help me identify the problem/waste needing eliminated from my daily management system? 

  3. Critical Assessment- Will anyone miss this trigger/problem from the process? Examine the steps and how they affect each other in the process. 

  4. Recognition of Shared Experiences- Network with others that may have had this shared trigger/problem and associate/meet with them to discuss their way of overcoming the trigger/problem and see if it helps you. 

  5. Exploring Options for New Behavior- Testing any of the other solutions presented to overcome the trigger/problem created by others from shared experiences. 

  6. Planning a Course of Action- Any implementation requires you to take action and make your work life better. 

  7. Acquisition of Knowledge- Implementing through standard work can make this solution more easy to see and use for a better shared culture and organizational understanding.

  8. Trying New Roles- If that behavior change doesn't demonstrate a better work life by having  autonomy to fix your problems, then look for a different role to address your work life issues due to interpersonal triggers that may not be alleviated by a simple process change. 

  9. Building Confidence- Your work satisfaction will grow as you display more ownership over the things that trigger/problems that make your work life difficult. 

  10. Reintegration- Coming back to the work unit with a change in perspective, by learning that others have the same issues and how they bridged the gap for the same trigger/issue. 

• Please tell us how these learning activities will work in practice? These activities can be mutually shared in a Team Chat/ The VA platform within Microsoft. Logging the simple fixes into the National Quality Improvement Tracking Tool, so that it's not reinventing the wheel. 

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-mental-and-physical-health-connection-7255857Links to an external site.

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/how-does-mental-health-affect-physical-healthLinks to an external site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKEWk4oWmjYLinks to an external site.

https://www.diygenius.com/transformational-learning/Links to an external site.