The Importance of Lifelong Learners

Published on 13 October 2021 at 09:33

A fascinating look into what makes people want to learn.


The author notes in this Harvard Business Review article, that most executives and talent management professionals who are charged with getting their people to learn aren’t thinking about what drives real learning — the creation of new knowledge, not just the handoff of existing knowledge. As a result, many companies are missing opportunities to motivate their employees to engage in the kind of learning that will actually help them innovate and keep pace with their customers’ changing needs.


Developing new knowledge in that way requires significant and sustained effort and on-the-job risk-taking, much more so than a traditional upskilling program.

According to the author, cultivating the passion of the explorer enables innovative thinking in the organization at a whole new level. Harnessing that opportunity requires us to move beyond fear and to find and cultivate the passion of the explorer that lies waiting to be discovered in all of us. How exciting is that?

Cultivating the passion of the explorer enables innovative thinking in the organization at a whole new level. The institutions that restore our humanity in this way will unleash a much more powerful form of learning among all workers that will lead to exponentially expanding opportunities.

 

To learn more:

https://hbr.org/2021/10/what-motivates-lifelong-learners? utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=dailyalert_actsubs&utm_content=signinnudge&deliveryName=DM154675

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