Emotional Barriers To Learning

Although employees may learn all the skills presented in a training session, such negative emotions as stress, anxiety, frustration, and anger can prevent them from applying these new skills on the job. Emotional management training in corporate training and development workshops is designed to help...

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Published in:Workforce management 1989-11, Vol.68 (11), p.86
Main Authors: DiMattia, Dominic J, Yeager, Raymond J, Dube, Ilene
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxieties
Barriers
Emotions
Employee assistance programs
Job satisfaction
Learning
Productivity
Skills
Training
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Summary:Although employees may learn all the skills presented in a training session, such negative emotions as stress, anxiety, frustration, and anger can prevent them from applying these new skills on the job. Emotional management training in corporate training and development workshops is designed to help participants overcome the emotional obstacles that impair performance. The model is based on Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) that conceptualizes self-defeating negative emotions and behaviors as resulting from dysfunctional, antiempirical, and irrational thoughts and beliefs. Workers identify emotional and behavioral obstacles to efficient performance and are helped to dispute and restructure irrational beliefs to overcome them. RET uses a simple "ABC" approach in which "A" is the activating event, "B" is the set of thoughts, and "C" is the emotional and behavioral consequence. The effectiveness of the approach has been documented in a recent study.
ISSN:1547-5565
2168-9016