Turn experience into learning with Kolb
Walk through a field debrief that becomes a better next attempt.
Use a rough onboarding session to improve the next cohort. Kolb: concrete experience -> reflective observation -> abstract conceptualization -> active experimentation. The shortcut is to treat a bad session as a personal performance problem and try harder, instead of extracting design evidence. Before “I ran long, so I will talk faster.” After “The policy section ran long because learners lacked a decision aid; I will test a two-column aid and shorten explanation.” Experience Capture the fact: policy explanation ran 18 minutes over plan and questions repeated around exceptions. Concrete evidence replaces global self-criticism. Reflect Notice that questions clustered where…
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