Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

If you wanted to take the venerated OODA loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) and create a business-focused version specifically for learning and development, complete with its own catchy acronym, you'd probably come up with SOAP, which stands for Situation-Objectives-Approach-Performance. And that's what WeLearn has done. The link here is to an 8 page PDF. I'd say more, but they've disabled 'select text' and I don't feel like retyping it.

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