Lifelong Learning: How to Grow this Key Skillset | |
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Lifelong learners typically are characterized by a variety of valuable traits that keep them learning over a lifetime. However, even if these traits don't come naturally, they can be cultivated.
As we have graduated from the formal educational environment and settled into adult routines and responsibilities, many of us have forgotten that we are wired to be learners and have fallen out of love with the process.
The good news? Even if you don’t have the Learner theme in your Top 5 CliftonStrengths, you can learn to be a life-learner!
Discover three key steps to cultivating a renewed love of learning by reading this month's blog and through the numerous resources provided below.
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Tools & Tips: Articles on Learning & Growth | | |
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Curiosity is Your Superpower: How to Become a Lifelong Learner
Imagine yourself as a book. When you’re born, you’re like a book with blank pages, waiting to be filled with stories, ideas, and knowledge. As you grow, each experience, lesson, and moment of curiosity adds a line, a paragraph, a page.
This is what lifelong learning is all about. It’s not just about the structured learning we get from traditional school or the qualifications we earn. It’s the continuous pursuit of knowledge.
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Why a Growth Mindset is Crucial for Leadership
Companies with a more fixed mindset tend to have employees considered stars or highly valued workers. In these situations, fear of failure is prevalent throughout the organization, and fewer employees pursue innovative projects.
In organizations with a growth mindset, supervisors felt that their employees were more innovative and collaborative. Employees also reported that they were happier, took more risks, and leaned toward innovation.
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10 Helpful Habits to Develop a Lifelong Learning Mindset
One of the best parts about college or any school experience is the actual process of learning ... that "aha" moment is what keeps many students motivated to study and stay in the classroom. But what about after school?
The good news is that learning doesn’t have to stop with the completion of a degree. Learning comes in many forms, like a museum, online classes, or informative books. This article contains 10 ways to develop a lifelong learning mindset.
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Tips & Tools: Podcast + TED Talks on Learning | |
Kathryn Schulz, a "Wrongologist" dares others to embrace being wrong... and the surprising benefits of doing so. Check out her TED Talk "On Being Wrong". | |
Dr. Jaclynn Robinson and Jim Collison discuss the Learner Theme from the perspective of a leader and discover ways it can empower your leadership. | |
Bernie (Ben) Dunlap tells the story of a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, Sandor Teszler, who taught him about passionate living and lifelong learning. | |
Featured Client Session: Green Bay Community Church | |
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Traci is often hired to help create custom sessions based on the objectives of the client.
For Green Bay Community Church, Traci was tasked with creating a concept using metaphors that would help the new Senior Lead Team fully own their vertices.
Using metaphors can simplify complex concepts, enhance engagement, create retention in memory, develop critical thinking skills, facilitate communication, and inspire innovation.
Each Senior Lead team member was challenged to think like a CEO, giving new insights to the staff and creating a beautiful, innovative time for discussion.
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Featured Session Location
Green Bay Community Church is a non-denominational group of Christ followers.
Their focus is to be a transformative community of families that are loving God and others.
They are mobilizing people to share the hope of Jesus Christ with all people in the Green Bay area.
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Tools & Tips: Books about Lifelong Learning | |
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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
In this book, author Kathryn Schulz explores what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about most everything.
Being Wrong will change the way you perceive screw-ups, both of the mammoth and daily variety, forever.
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Tips & Tools: Quotes to Consider | | |
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To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves.
Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement.
Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
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"Someone with strong Learner [is] comfortable not being the smartest expert in the room. ... And this can be attractive, I think, because their curiosity breaks down the masks that a lot of us tend to wear." — Maika Leibbrandt, Gallup Coach Source
“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessment of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.” ― Kathryn Schulz
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