Get Help

Of my favourite scenes in Thor “Ragnarok” is where Thor and Loki play 'get help'.

Sure. It's a bit of a laugh, but seriously, I challenge you to get help, because at every point of your career, you should have resources around you that stretch you and challenge you and encourage you or sometimes force you to grow.

Get a little uncomfortable if you're the smartest in the room every day. We know from the recruitment world that as a leader, it's our job to hire someone better than us, to support them and then to watch the business fly.

As our kids move towards college, I've been in a? lot of seminars from admissions experts and the message that stuck with me this week was a good one. Grade-wise - aim to be in the bottom of the top 25%. That way you're not the smartest in the room, but you won't struggle too much either.I love that.

If you've been doing the same thing for a while over and over again, you've got that feeling of automating beginning to set in (because there are machines for that you know) - step up and get more creative, solve bigger problems, start to collaborate more because that's where we humans do best.

So yes or no? Do you engage in one or some of the following?

Do you have a coach, a mentor, an accountability partner, or maybe you're on a round table or a mastermind, an accelerator, a course, maybe you're engaging in mind valley or masterclass, LinkedIn learning, Ted talks, YouTube, audio books? It used to take, or what was considered, 10,000 hours to become outstanding at something - thanks Malcolm Gladwell.?

Now provided the motivation is there we're now watching our kids get pretty sick skills over a weekend, binge watching YouTube or TikTok, because of the accelerated learning techniques, that it’s multi-sensory and dished up in a pop-social kind of way that they like.

My favourite analogy for learning right now is an ‘open API’ because it's got this beautiful enablement of two way flow of information to exponentially make something more informed and better over time, and it adjusts in real time.

If you really want to learn something - teach - then you have to learn it twice. And there's nothing more clarifying than needing to explain something in its simplest form.

Those were our best teachers at school, right!

Become one of them.