Learning in the Workplace

Learning - The time for learning is here and now

Learn Something New Today

Learning, and in particular, learning in the workplace, is fast becoming the major player in any successful business, whether it be home based or multi-national.

Those successful companies will have already began building a learning culture within their organisation, or they are in the process of building such a culture.

This is largely due to knowledge that today's leaders have gained in recognizing that people make the place, and people set the pace.

People at Work

These years will be remembered by many organizations as Their Decade, many others won't remember it at all.

Events will create such demands for change upon organizations that many will go under.

The major reason they will do so is that they will fail to recruit, train and retain the people they need to help them change.

Professor Peter Herriot

Improvement and Change

"Their is no improvement without change and there is no change without learning"

These two quotes have had such a profound effect on my thinking it was a major task not to just keep repeating that learning is important, on a continuing scroll across the pages

You will I am sure be pleased to note that I decided against this tactic, you are of course very capable of deciding for yourself how important learning is to you and to your co-workers

You may be interested though to read that in a survey carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Directors in 2005 stated that pay and renumeration were not the main reason for discontent within the employees of UK business.

That honor was reserved for "Personal Development"

By its own definition personal development implies a change, the development of the person requires a change in behavior, attitudes, and thought processes, in essence, personal development could be defined quite simply as learning. Learning about ones-self is an important aspect of each and everyone of us.

Find your Learning Style

Once you have found your learning style, you will be able to then set yourself Learning Goals, alongside your performance Goals.

There is of course a significant difference between learning and performance goals, that difference is that with a learning goal the results will develop continually, for example if your performance goal is to increase your salary by 10% by the end of next year, your results can be measured - next year.

If however, your learning goal was to overcome fear of rejection, then your period of measurement will of course be continual, as many scenarios will exist where you can effectively measure your fear of rejection, it won't be overcome straight away.

In essence performance goals, may or may not require any change in capability, your capability. Learning goals however do require a change in your capabilities, and it is this capability change that allows you to improve your performance.

This performance improvement will of course assist you in your journey towards an effective work life balance.