How to spark your curiosity?
How do you learn, how do you learn to learn and how do you unlearn?
These are the questions we always ask ourselves when people come to us to make progress and when they want to develop their skills and their qualities.
While in the past adult education has often been limited to standardized classroom training, companies are recognizing the tremendous need for upskilling and reskilling of employees within the organization to attract the talent they need to take on new technological advances for commercialization in the near future. New technologies are helping to transition to more immersive learning experiences and facilitating the transition to a learning organization.
In this newsletter we give you a little insight into what awaits us all: learning is becoming an integral part of our daily work.
?? Web discovery - what we found interesting
?? Every day learning and retaining know how
Learning should be part of the job execution every day! And here is why
?? We're surrounded by technology in our professional and personal lives. Digital technologies allow that individuals raise a business, which required an enterprise structure in the past.
?? Access to information is highly democratized. But providing experiences to master new skills is still a transitional activity in organizations called "Learning and training."
?? Adoption of new technologies in working environments requires significant up- and reskilling initiatives for people in organizations.
?? According to #WEF four skill types are determinant for the future:
- Problem solving
- Self-management
- Working with people
- Technology use and development
?? For more ?? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/top-10-work-skills-of-tomorrow-how-long-it-takes-to-learn-them/
?? A nicely presented reference case to learn about customer retention
?How do you get the inspiration for your content?
?? I am sure that newsletters provides you with important headlines as a starting point for further exploration of a topic you’re currently thinking of and once your storyline gets a form and consistency you like probably reference cases supplement your rationale with testimonials eligible to prove your idea or concept.
?? Then I have 2 interesting sources you may want to explore:
No. 1??: Morning Brew provides newsletters covering various domains and I am sure most of you are already subscribed to at least one of them. The content is regularly ahead of time, concisely written, that you get easily the key message, which helps you decided fast to dig in or leave it for later.
No. 2??: Growth.Design is a beautifully composed and nicely illustrated inspiration source for product design: it provides a collection of case studies of mainly digital products and platforms - mostly well known brands - together with the underlying reference material about psychological effects on UX.
?? The example for Morning brew deals with the retention of subscribers and is a really good example business growth when running a newsletter.
?? Growth.Design examples ??https://growth.design/case-studies/morning-brew-newsletter-retention
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??? Your #walknlisten Podcasts
Every Friday we recommend an insightful episode for your #walknlisten session for the upcoming weekend. In case you missed them, in this newsletter you’ll get a preferred one: importance of writing by the #rework podcast: “Hire great writers!”
?? Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson explain how distinguishing writing can be as a cover letter in a job application, as a discourse to create a new proposal or simply as an efficiency lever in meetings.
Admittedly there are some benefits to think about:
?? “Writing is the magic filter for taking off bullshit”: Writing forces you to express yourself and by (re)reading it, you can remove what makes thoughts confusing for your audience.
?? ”Writing creates a lot of byproducts”: Once and idea is written down, it can reused, recycled, reiterated and circled to level up the initial thoughts.
?? Writing helps you to express and explain yourself: I personally love to ask for motivation letters, as the selection of statements and single words tells you a lot about the level of intrinsic motivation a person carries to a project, job or any other joint endeavor.
???#rework episode
??ICYMI - /LD7 team on LinkedIn
Mastering technology requires learning and learning to learn.
Companies are facing huge challenges to create a learning culture in their organization.
??It’s time to act in order to attract today the talent capable to master technologies needed for the future.
??I would even go further and argue “why learning shouldn’t be employee downtime anymore” - according to my recent LinkedIn article below.
This is the longer piece to find some inspiration for answers to the following questions:
?How is learning integrated into your organization? Are you already a learning organization where knowledge is organized as a network of equal nodes overcoming hiararchical structures?
?? From the bookshelf to your inbox
?What has been the last non-fiction book you read until the end and couldn’t get enough so that you even studied a considerable part of the notes?
?? Chances are the author followed Rob Fitzpatrick's recommendation in "Write Useful Books".
??Given as a personal gift to one of our partners, it was read in record time - even though it was paperback and not a Kindle.
This page-turner is definitely useful for any kind of written content you want to commercialize, and here are some popular statements and guides:
?? If you want to be an effective problem solver - your content / book needs to follow DEEP:
(D)esirable - readers want what your content is promising
(E)ffective - it delivers results for the average reader (not only the niche, VIPs, an elite, etc.)
(E)ngaging - it’s front-loading the value and provides value on every page
(P)olished - professionally written and presented
?? It's about recommending which book or content is useful because it convincingly (evidence) solves a painful problem (reality) for a particular type of reader (existing audience) who often mentions that particular problem (scalability).
?? Improve as you write: Listening and helping in conversations provide opportunities to review and improve scope as well as refine the ToC —> “Write drunk, edit sober!”
And then comes the discipline:
?? Define your schedule & do the work - “I write only when inspiration strikes me, fortunately it strikes every morning at 9am sharp!”
?? Front-load the value - Reduce words and delete fluff; What are value-enablers and what is context that can be put into the notes?
?? Beta-reading and a good proxy for momentum (at least for your next edition) - “If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched to late.” —> this very much resonates to me according to my 80% rule; delivering 80% can be already enough if you’re considered to be expert.
?? This book is for anyone who has an ambition to help and reach people with their own content. The simplicity of this guide makes it an excellent resource, whether you're a professional writer or a knowledge worker just starting to grow your own content.
?? to the book and additional material ??https://writeusefulbooks.com/
What else ... are we learning?
As many communities and businesses aspire to become a learning organization, know-how retention and self-sufficient knowledge management will be the secret ingredient to sound training and learning budgets. It is a challenge for everyone to keep up with the pace of technological advances that we are experiencing as individuals, the economy and society. Continuous learning is the only way to succeed in this rapidly changing world.
We are therefore happy to receive any feedback on this newsletter, what you liked and look forward to further ideas.
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