Build your learning culture to outdo the competition

Launching a new business is a lesson in skills development across the whole business cycle. It is wonderful but also overwhelming.

Content marketing experts often suggest building content that gives your reader something useful to take away with them. A straight-forward way to provide value is list a bunch of things people can do right now. That sounds awesome and useful. Great!

But, it also explains why when we head over to Linkedin 👋 to help us build our leadership skills, we’re met with a long list of microskills to focus on. It’s wonderful when you find one tid bit can you apply to a specific circumstance right now, but the never-ending lists are also overwhelming.

When we think of a leader we respect, we rarely rattle off skills listed on a leadership training matrix. We list attributes, and how that leader made us feel.

AI and automation will continue to change how we work, but we subscribe to the theories that working with humans, and using that technology will be highly valued as the world continues to change.

7/10 CEOs worry their employees lack the right skills for the future. But the skills required to do our jobs are expected to change by 65% in the next 6 years (Atvis, 2024) So, even the CEOs who worry now, don’t know what the specific technical skills are that we’ll need to learn so they can’t train for those skills now to prepare for the future.

Successful people will learn how to work with the new technologies and adapt to new environments with other humans.

And it’s even more important to focus on what makes us human when you’re hybrid & remote, because the nature of how we work is distancing our humanness.

Building a learning organisation will be key for bright futures.

Reflective Practice is an awesome… practice to help you build your learning culture. It’s tricky to do well, but its formula is simple.

Next time your team is talking about something that went well, or not so well, try asking the group - what happened, how did it feel and what can we do with that?