#144: Learning Has Dramatically Changed and You'd Better Catch Up With It or Be Left Behind

Introduction

Today, on the "People Skills" newsletter, we're showcasing 13 videos from one of today's most influential soft skills influencers, Jacob Morgan.

Jacob describes himself as a professionally trained futurist with a passion to create great leaders, engaged employees and future-ready organisations.

Which could also be the passion and mission of ourselves at Manage Train Learn.

So, today, we've decided to focus on Learning and have selected a set of videos from Jacob on how learning has fundamentally changed for everyone and what you must do to stay up with it.

So, get ready, hold on to your seats, and enjoy the ride...

01. Why All Leaders Must Be Coaches and Mentors

In the past, leaders inside of organizations have tended to be the people sitting up at the top looking down on all the employees and giving orders.

But this is changing.

We are now seeing a shift towards leaders acting as coaches and mentors for their employees. Instead of barking orders and expecting employees to blindly follow, we now see leaders who provide open, honest feedback, who push employees to be better, and who remove obstacles instead of creating them.

02. This is What Coaching and Mentoring Should Look Like

Being a mentor is a lot like being a parent.

When your child does something that you couldn't do, or maybe they do something better than you, you don’t say “how dare you, I am your creator!” (and then push them over).

Instead, you look at your kid with a sense of pride and accomplishment.

03. Coaching and Mentoring Different Generations at Work

Every employee inside of your organization has something to offer regardless of the generation they're from or the stage of life they are in. This is why mentoring can flow both ways, with younger employees mentoring older employees or with older employees mentoring younger employees.

04. Why Many Coaching and Mentoring Programmes Fail

I visit a lot of organizations that tell me they have a coaching and mentoring program. But when I explore these programs in more detail, I find the way they work is a little bit backwards...

05. How to Create Mentoring Programmes Inside Your Organisation

Creating mentoring programs inside of an organization can be challenging. But, it's crucial to implement something like this because it helps future-proof your organization. Here are a few steps you can follow to start creating mentoring programmes...

06. Three Ways the World of Learning Is Changing

With all of the technological advances we are experiencing, learning no longer needs to be done 100% in person. Now employees can use any device in any location for education and training, whenever is convenient.

07. Learn How to Learn

There used to be a time when graduating from school was enough for you to be successful in life and in work. And when you worked for a company, it too, would teach you everything you needed to know. But today, that’s no longer the case...

08. The One Rule to Keep Growing and Learning

I’ve had a rule for myself that I have practiced for several years. The rule is to do one thing every year that I didn’t do the year before.

09. Are You a Super Perpetual Learner?

The term, “perpetual learner” has been thrown around a lot recently and while it is important to learn how to learn in today’s fast pace of change, the concept is not something new. We have always had to adapt throughout history, but the difference is now we have to be Super Perpetual Learners.

10. My Dad is the Ultimate Perpetual Learner

My Dad is the ultimate Super Perpetual Learner, and a great example of having accountability to not rely only on educational institutions or organizations to teach you everything you need to be successful in your life and career.

11. Become a Perpetual Learner and Pay Attention to the Tangential

You have to become a perpetual learner, you must learn how to learn. This is perhaps the most important skill that you can possess. Never be “heads down”. The problem with saying that you're so heads down is that you miss everything else that's happening on the edges (ie the tangential things).

12. One Simple Tactic to Continuously Grow

Whether it's for business or personal growth, if you're willing to put in the effort, if you have patience and if you're willing to do something new every year, I think that you will find success down the road.

13. 3 Daily Practices of Perpetual Learners

A perpetual learner is somebody who takes learning into their own hands and learns how to learn. They acknowledge that what they learned in the past is not necessarily going to carry them forward in the future. And here are three things you can do each day to help you...

What Next?

If you have worked through each video in this newsletter, you will now have a great set of materials to understand, and adopt, the new ways of learning.

And, with this as your base, you can now take things further.

With over 22,000 learning resources on our 6 websites, with 2 sites offering free downloads, you can now take charge of your own learning and create your own learning pathways to success.

Simply commit yourself to a daily snippet of learning and then apply it, practise it, reflect upon it, and review it, and in no time at all, you will find that your learning has become part of who you are.

Well done and good luck!