Learning for a Multi-Stage Multi-Transition Life
With a longer life & a technology enabled world, we need to learn & re-learn to grow and thrive
In their book, The 100 - Year Life, London Business School professors Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott, say that as the longevity will increase so will the opportunity for multiple transitions in one life-time. Right now, in context of the professional life we have two major transitions - from education to work, and from work to retirement.
…right now few people are able or skilled to make these multiple transitions. Making the most of a long and multi-stage life means taking transitions in your stride. Being flexible, acquiring new knowledge, exploring new ways of thinking, seeing the world from a different perspective….
The 100 - Year Life: Living & Working in an Age of Longevity, Lynda Gratton & Andrew Scott
Apart from the increased longevity and multi-stage life, we are also in the time which is seeing technological development at unprecedented pace along with never before awareness and access to global markets. All put together indicates a very compelling need for continuous upskilling to stay relevant and thrive across geography and technology in time.
The challenge is that it requires not only a perspective shift but also recognition that for this kind of up-skilling and re-skilling, we cannot be rely upon institutional systems as we used to, for our primary learning and skilling.
In this rapidly changing, connected and technology enabled world, we need to self skill continuously. Which requires a better understanding of limitations of our earlier learning and the path which can help us maximize our existing strength. We need to build our roadmap, And to be able to do that we need to have a very clear understanding of our sphere of awareness, circle of competency and zone of genius.
Lets Unpack!
In this issue of Brewed for Work, we delves into this confidence-competence conundrum at work.
Today’s Issue at a Glance:
Where are we, and where do we need to go?
Sphere of Awareness
Circle of Competence
Zone of Genius
The Journey
The Roadmap
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