Chapter 10 - Do it in style

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what you mean." Read her a menu in a restaurant and she'll have to look at it herself. Buy her a present and you can't go too wrong with a book - but check to see whether she's print oriented or prefers pictures. If the latter, she might even prefer a videotape. Most visual learners, but not all, tend to be organized, tidy and well dressed.
  An auditory learner generally couldn't care less about reading a book or an instruction manual. He'll have to ask for information. He doesn't buy a car for its looks - he buys it for its stereo system. In a plane he'll immediately strike up a conversation with his new neighbor. And when he grasps new information, he says something like: "I hear what you're saying." If you buy him a present, make it a tape recorder, not a book.
  A kinesthetic, tactile learner always wants to be on the move. If she bumps into you accidentally, she'll want to give you a reassuring hug. When she grasps a new principle, "it feels right" to her. And for her Christmas present: a laptop computer?

Your unique working style
 
  Since the early 1990s New Zealand-based Barbara Prashnig, who heads the Creative Learning Company, has introduced the Dunn and Dunn model with great success in New Zealand primary and secondary schools and among MBA students at the University of Auckland.
  "People of all ages can learn virtually anything if allowed to do it through their unique styles, through their own personal strengths," she says in Diversity Is Our Strength: the learning revolution in action. 12
  She has also built on the Dunns' research base to build practical program for analyzing individual students' learning styles, anyone's individual working style, plus individual teaching styles and training styles.
  "Working style," she says, "can be defined as the way people in the work force usually absorb and retain new and difficult information, think or concentrate, generally do their daily work, and effectively solve problems."
  By inquiring through the World Wide Web, anyone can quickly receive a computer printout showing strengths to build on and weaknesses to overcome.13 "It's therefore ideal," she says, "for both individuals and companies looking at applications for any position."
  Her learning-style, working-style and teaching-style programs are

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