If you’re not spending some time every day learning something, you’re likely going to become stagnant and not be able to move forward in your career. While we consume more information than ever, we also don’t learn the way we should. Take a deeper dive and understand the qualities that need to be in place to become a manager, to avoid a toxic workplace, and to make you an expert in your chosen field. When you spend the time trying to learn and study a topic over several months, it becomes easier for you to focus and learn at work when a multitude of items are coming at you quickly. Make learning the basis of your daily life and you’re going to see growth in your career and in your personal life that doesn’t come from skimming the headlines and never taking the deeper dive into a topic.
Become a More Productive Learner
Harvard Business Review Article:
There was a time when you spent years learning one topic and focusing on that single topic for hours at a time every day. Today, that’s not the case at all. We now consume more than five times the information we did in 1986 and most of the time we only take the time to read headlines and skim through an item, missing some of the necessary items that are included. Our learning has taken a hit and hasn’t been able to recover. If you want to understand how to learn and seriously dive into the deep end of a topic you’re going to employ a different approach to learning in order to get more out of what you’re ready to understand. Take a look at this article and understand what it means to truly learn something versus being able to simply skim the surface and never take a deep dive.
Full Article:
https://hbr.org/2018/06/become-a-more-productive-learner
5 Signs You’re Ready to Be a Manager (That Have Nothing to Do With Being Good at Your Current Job)
The Muse Article:
There are plenty of tasks that managers have to handle that has nothing to do with the actual work that needs to get done. If you’re in line for the next management position in your company you’re going to want to understand that the expectations of you will change from someone that produces results in a singular manner to someone that can lead a team toward a deadline to deliver the results for an entire project. This means being able to answer questions, give up some of the control you once had, investing time and energy into others, and solving problems along the way. Are you ready to do these things? If you’re not sure, take a look at this article and gauge how it makes you feel.
Full Article:
https://www.themuse.com/advice/5-signs-that-youre-ready-to-be-a-manager?ref=recently-published-1
5 Unspoken Rules that Lead to a Toxic Culture
Inc. Article:
While you know the rules that are in place at your company and what they mean to your daily process, there are some rules that are more about common sense and really don’t need to be written down. Have you been to meetings and never spoken up even when you’ve disagreed with the meeting topics? Do you know that you need to put yourself forward in order to gain advancement in your company? Are you someone that looks at taking every risk as a way to continue to get ahead? Take a look at this article and understand there’s a lot of gray area in the world that you have to live in every day in order to get ahead and avoid creating a toxic culture.
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