PROCESS - 6. Learning is developing

It is not an easy task to learn from every situation. In many cases, we are used to simply experiencing situations and not connecting the dots afterwards, so we miss out on the ‘learning of the moment’. Corporate life comes with many learning opportunities, but you need to take a step back and reflect, which is not always easy.

In order to learn something, you need to be relaxed and authentic, like ‘a fish in the water’. The only way to feel like this is to be in a comfortable environment. So, it seems that we can only be our authentic selves and learn if we are in our home, but we are social creatures and need to gather in a space that feels like a home shared with others.

We talk a lot about company wellbeing. The main reason for creating an environment where people can have a coffee on a couch, play tabletop soccer, or have a book sharing space in the office is to make people feel comfortable. The goal is for employee wellbeing to increase, so that every colleague can feel at ease and

• learn from others who share the same rules and standards?????
• make mistakes without being called out on them, because the office is the right place to fall down and rise up again???????????
• grow, because ‘alone you go faster, but together you go further’ ( Eleonora SALADINO )

How can you understand these factors if your business is done in another country? How can you figure out if there is a culture of growth and wellbeing in that country? How can you create this approach of letting colleagues (and thus the entire company) learn and develop from a distance?

Three things should be useful:

• start from what we talked about in previous articles: listen, ask questions, and keep an open mind.????????????
• share! Talk about what is going on there vs. in other countries and compare what others are already doing, because sharing is caring! ?????????
• connect: create a network made out of people, competencies, and useful tools across different countries.