The Key to Learning

Our society is placing more and more value on life long learning. As an employee you are expected to be constantly updating your skills, abilities and knowledge just to maintain your current role or to be able to move up and on. The interesting thing is that at the same time demands on our time are increasing in the workplace. This is interesting because the key to learning is having the time to reflect. As we charge through life it is impossible for us to learn from our experiences if we don't take the time to reflect and process the information.

When you attend a workshop or a learning opportunity, how do you process the information? Do you summarize the key points and bring them back to your colleagues? Do you take the materials, truly intending to review them again, but really just file them away because you don't have the time to revisit them?

Think about this next time you take the time to learn and remember that you need time after the experience to integrate the learning.