Input, Process, and Output (IPO)

 Input, Process, and Output

I tell my six years old daughter how to learn to learn. Three processes in the learning arena: Input (I), Process (P), and Output (O). Each has its own place, and order; it cannot be reversed. The (I) has to go before the (P) and the (P) has to go before the (O). The IPO is vitally important components in helping anyone wish to learn and be successful whether in school or in public at work, along the road, or at home. I explain to her, further, that through utilizing the analogy of a person eating (I) food, wait for the stomach to digest (P), then put it out (O) in the toilet, the little girl would understand the valuable concept of employing the system of the IPO.

The main issue I teach her this technique starting from seeing my daughter has faced the problem of learning to learn how to communicate and express herself with words and ideas. She always wants to express out of thin air. I mean she wants to tell me from nothing in her that can be used to convey the meanings or ideas. Why is it? The occurrences have happened often due to her impatient to learn how to follow the system of the IPO.

A few days ago at Devry University, my school, while waiting for the printer to finish printing my three chapters of the statistic book, I had browsed through magazines. I had paged into one interested financial magazine. There I had found a headline in boldface, stating similarly like this: if one stops learning, one stops developing and stops growing. I agree with this statement. This statement consists of the IPO. Let us rewind the tape. Learning is I. Developing is P. and growing is O. It takes some eating and digesting to make someone or something grows. If someone wishes to think, express before listening, then he or she might make no sense to her audiences. The audiences in turn might claim the person as unreal or crazy for he or she has expressed the ideas that make no sense to them, or the expression is not correlate to their communication line that they have expected to hear. To avoid this type of miscommunication, one must learn how to communicate utilizing the IPO in its pure systematic format.

Let us put this in the real life situation applying to cross cultural communication in the realm of learning and growing with the attention and purpose of building good relationship across multiple cultures. In order for us to effectively and correctly communicate with other people, we have to learn how to apply the technique of the IPO. The IPO employs the five senses of the human being, and if you will, it can be the six senses – the sense of being. We have to, first, learn to observe and listen. This can be done through reading and real-life involving.