{"id":4608,"date":"2024-11-27T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illuminategrowth.com.au\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2024-11-27T06:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T06:10:42","slug":"agilelearner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illuminategrowth.com.au\/staging\/agilelearner\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Become a More Agile Learner, and Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Learning<\/em> agility goes hand in hand with<em> leadership<\/em> agility.<\/p>\n<p>Because when you demonstrate flexibility and a desire to learn from whatever comes your way, you deepen trust with others.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn some tips to develop this key skill?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some ideas to help you:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Strategy #1: Be Curious to Learn<\/h4>\n<p>An agile learner will assume she doesn&#8217;t have all the answers.<\/p>\n<p>So she will ask other people lots of questions, intent on learning something new from each of them.<\/p>\n<p>By building her own knowledge in this way, the agile learner benefits from a collective intelligence which gives her a more balanced, robust world view.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Strategy #2: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone<\/h4>\n<p>An agile learner will be interested to step out of her comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>She knows this might feel uncertain but she knows too that venturing into new territory will only result in her continued growth and learning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Strategy #3: Seek Out a Breadth of Experiences<\/h4>\n<p>An agile learner purposefully seeks broader, or different, experiences to continue her growth.<\/p>\n<p>She might partner with different teams&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Join a work rotation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Take on a new project within a different business silo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Or look for opportunities to broaden her skills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Strategy #4: Actively Seek Feedback<\/h4>\n<p>An agile learner will proactively seek out<em> specific<\/em> feedback from others about her own performance.<\/p>\n<p>She knows that gathering data on her progress and blind spots, she can work to fast track her improvement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Strategy #5: Be Objective<\/h4>\n<p>Lastly, the agile learner instinctively looks at situations, and outcomes, with objectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The key is identifying the steps and contributing factors that produced the result (whether positive or not) and learning from them&#8230; objectively and without emotion or blame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it!<\/p>\n<p>Five ways to develop your learning agility muscle and build trust as a practical, objective leader who is capable of working with change, rather than against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning agility goes hand in hand with leadership agility. 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