The Power of Vicarious Learning

November 14, 2014

Chris Myers discusses some of his research on vicarious learning. “We typically think of learning as something that happens in a classroom or an organizational training context,” Chris says. “But the reality is that most of our learning occurs in our day to day interactions and the experiences that we have in the workplace. In addition to understanding how individuals learn from their own experiences at work, my research also explores how people learn from others’ experiences, what’s known as vicarious learning.”