Healthy businesses are constantly evolving and improving. There are always new skills to learn.
💿 You may have to familiarise yourself with some new software.
🛠 Learn how to use a new tool.
📊 Integrate an updated business process.
🔎 Incorporate a clever technique to make your current work more efficient…
( 📚 I’m not asking how you learn information best. That’s a topic for another post.) What I want to know is what is:
Methods for learning new skills at work
✅⛔ Let me figure it out. I prefer Trial and Error on my own. I’ll figure it out eventually, and I don’t want to be told what to do!
📎 I’ll do it, with support. You can be the Coach. I like to be active in my learning, but I want some 1-1 guidance along the way.
👨👨👦👦👩👩👧👦 Let’s learn together. Lead a few of us in a Workshop or Class and we’ll support each other in our efforts.
🚂🚄 Give me some Practice Examples to try. If I get the right result, I know I’ve got a handle on the skill.
👀 Show me how it’s done! I want to copy your Modelled Behaviour. All I need is a clear goal.
📒📺 Give me super clear instructions. I want the Operations Manual. Images. Videos. Step-by-step instructions. Possible errors. This will give me the confidence and clarity I need to do this new skill well.
My preference
I personally like a very hands-off approach.
For simpler skills, I just want to see it in action. If it’s presented clearly enough, I’ll be able to figure it out!
For more complex skills, I like to dive in and get my hands dirty, poke around a bit, try, fail, and learn. Then, once I’ve figured out the basics and I know what I don’t know, I like to have a guide who can fill in the gaps and show me more efficient ways to do this new thing I’m learning.
How do you like to learn new skills? Do you have the chance to learn like that in your place of work? And what doesn’t work for you?
Share your successes and horror stories in the comments below!
Ways of Working
“Ways of Working” is a multi-part series of quick tips to personalize your workplace culture and make it work for you and your colleagues.
If you want help understanding and communicating your own Ways of Working, or if you want to run a Ways of Working workshop with your team, send me a message! Let’s talk.
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