00:00:00: Introduction
00:00:54: Thought for motion 1: follow ranging from scratch
00:03:39: Thought for motion 2: do some quick fact-finding
00:06:22: Helpful useful resource
00:06:38: Closing ideas
Helen Tupper: Ability 14 is studying agility, and that is one which I feel we have spent various time on, as a result of we have accomplished a full podcast episode on it, we got here up with a complete evaluation that we’ll let you know about in a couple of minutes.
So, it is one thing we actually care about and it is one thing we have got heaps that will help you with. However why and what’s studying agility? So, that is about your potential to do issues that you haven’t accomplished earlier than. So, studying agility permits us to kind of achieve conditions which are new. And should you deconstruct studying agility into what are the issues that make it up, there are three issues that contribute in the direction of it.
So, that is about navigating newness, it’s about understanding others and it is usually about self-awareness.
Sarah Ellis: And so we’re actually going to focus initially on navigating newness, as a result of we have talked about understanding others in our empathy talent, and I feel typically we do not get a lot follow being a newbie. So, that’s my thought for motion, is practise ranging from scratch and I actually imply ranging from scratch, as a result of when was the final time you probably did one thing that you have not accomplished earlier than? So, this was a extremely good query that Cath Bishop truly requested me the opposite week.
So, Cath’s been on the podcast, she’s the creator of an amazing ebook referred to as Lengthy Win, and that is one in every of her killer questions within the ebook. And she or he requested me that query, I requested her that query.
Helen Tupper: What was your reply?
Sarah Ellis: Effectively, fortunately she requested me on per week the place we had simply accomplished a coaching session on AI, and it was a three-hour coaching session. So, “When was the final time you’ve got accomplished one thing you’ve got not accomplished earlier than?” I used to be like, “Oh, I’ve actually simply spent three hours doing a great deal of issues I’ve not accomplished earlier than, attempting out new AI instruments that I would by no means even heard of, that I would by no means experimented with”, and really that did not really feel too uncomfortable.
And I used to be reflecting on why, and I feel that is as a result of we have been being a newbie collectively. So, we have been doing the AI coaching as a gaggle. So, I used to be studying earlier about, the truth of being a newbie is you are feeling — apparently the 2 primary feelings are uncovered and embarrassed.
Helen Tupper: That sounds about proper, yeah.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah, and also you kind of get it. However truly I used to be pondering, “Effectively, in that state of affairs, I did not really feel both of these issues”. However I feel that is as a result of it was kind of a gaggle and possibly we have been all ranging from the identical place.
Helen Tupper: Positively occasions when I’ve been a newbie, and I get these feelings of like embarrassed. Like typically, being a newbie once you be part of a brand new group, I typically discover like, “Oh, I do not know, and do I slot in?” and all these form of issues. Confidence gremlins develop, do not they, in these moments. However like, how am I being a newbie now or what is the subsequent time going to be a newbie, I do not assume I’ve acquired that reply in my head in the meanwhile.
Sarah Ellis: No and I feel it’s totally simple to fall into that lure of by no means doing it. And there is various proof truly, we do much less and fewer “starting” the older that we get. So, I feel it’s a must to inject newness, it’s a must to it’s a must to uncover that and discover that.
Now, perhaps some individuals of their jobs are doing issues the place they’re like, “I do not want extra of that as a result of a great deal of newness is coming my method on a regular basis”, wherein case, if that is you, you are practising a variety of studying agility. However I feel for many of us, it is typically about recognizing the possibilities to kind of add that agility in, as a result of then we’re I feel growing our profession resilience, in order that maybe when one thing new does come our method, it isn’t the primary time in 5 years that we’re not doing one thing that feels acquainted. I learn a extremely good quote earlier the place it stated, “Familiarity breeds complacency” and I used to be like, I imply that is fairly brutal.
Helen Tupper: Yeah, that is fairly a brutal quote!
Sarah Ellis: However in a Squiggly Profession, you do not wish to be complacent as a result of that is after we stall, that is after we get caught.
Helen Tupper: I assume you keep in your consolation zone for too lengthy, and it isn’t that consolation zones are unhealthy, however should you spend all of your time there, you may maintain your self again over time. So, my thought for motion is completely different, as ever! I used to be attempting to consider, when I’m demonstrating studying agility, so I am navigating newness, what do I do? And I feel I am a really quick fact-finder. So, I feel the factor that helps me achieve new conditions, so I recognise that is new, “I am a bit unsure right here”.
Sarah Ellis: I do not know what I do not know.
Helen Tupper: Yeah, I do not know what I do not know, and I feel I’ve a really speedy strategy to filling that data hole, and I do it from fairly a number of locations. So, I will go to a few individuals in a short time, most likely on WhatsApp, as a result of I feel what’s the quickest method that I can get somebody to reply to assist me fill my data hole? And I will ask quite simple questions like, “I am about to go and discuss on this scenario. Is there something that you simply keep in mind from once you did this that you simply assume it might be helpful for me to know?” So, I ask very fast questions. Clearly, I’ll do a little bit of Google, typically have a bit scan on LinkedIn.
So, I feel what I do with my quick fact-finding is, I do not depend on one individual, I do not depend on one supply. So, it’s going to be individuals, little little bit of LinkedIn, little little bit of web. Extra lately, we have talked about this a number of occasions truly within the dash, one thing like ChatGPT, I’ll deliver that in a bit bit. And I simply have an actual burst of getting data that then helps me take no matter it’s I’ve accomplished earlier than, with this immersive new little bit of information that I’ve acquired, and I actually assume it helps me navigate the stuff that I undoubtedly do not know but.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah, I all the time assume you are good at combining, “What have I accomplished earlier than that may be helpful?” so this can be a new scenario however you may nonetheless have experiences which you could apply; and, “I’m going to gather”. I really feel such as you’re kind of, “Proper, I will go and accumulate from a great deal of completely different locations”, virtually in a form of, “I am not going to dive too deep, however I’m simply going to deliver all these bits of information collectively”, after which that lets you see a extra full image that you simply could not have accomplished for your self, since you’re like, “Effectively, that is new to me”, after which it at the least will get you began. As a result of I feel once you’re navigating newness, you needn’t have the entire solutions, you already know, when you do not know what you do not know. What you do want to determine is like, “Effectively, the place shall I begin? Or what issues most initially to maneuver ahead?”
Helen Tupper: Yeah, in my head I’ve acquired this picture of a bridge, like a rickety bridge such as you would see on an Indiana Jones film. It is fairly an outdated reference!
Sarah Ellis: Such a Nineteen Nineties reference, Eighties reference perhaps!
Helen Tupper: I do know, however bear with me, most individuals can keep in mind a rickety bridge. However you’ve got acquired the place you might be at the moment is that this one facet of the bridge, and the place you wish to get to is the opposite. And it is like my data has acquired like some little blocks on that bridge, however they’re virtually too far aside, there is a danger I’d fall down. So in a method, for me, it is like my speedy, quick fact-finding, it helps to fill within the gaps alongside the bridge to get me to the opposite facet. Which may not be a really helpful analogy, nevertheless it’s what is going on round my head by way of what I do.
Sarah Ellis: So, if you wish to do a studying agility evaluation for your self, do not get too carried away by the phrase “evaluation”, it is fast and it is simple. However what you’ll get, which might be probably the most helpful factor, is as soon as you’ve got crammed it out, we then e mail you with some concepts for motion on every of these three areas, and the hyperlink to that shall be within the present notes. And that is all for this talent and subsequent time we’ll be speaking about work-life match, which I believe might be going to be one in every of our hottest matters. However that is the whole lot for at the moment, thanks a lot for listening and bye for now.
Helen Tupper: Bye everybody
