102- Steps to Learning at Your Workplace

17 April 2023

 Steps to Learning at Your Workplace

There are times when we feel stuck at in a routine job where it seems repetitive and you had learnt all you could have learned. Or it could be that you feel there is no urgency and need to learn other skill sets, as the skills you have currently is enough to sustain the job scope you are handling.
However, you cannot be more mistaken, as learning is for you to progress, not just in your workplace but an investment to your own future and personal growth. Learning equips you with more handles in life to deal with the different circumstances you may encounter later on in your life.
So, let’s find out what we can do to take charge of our own learning!
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Changing your Mindset  
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Our behaviours are wired according to our thoughts and perspectives we form in our brains. Once we have decided that there is nothing else to learn or there is no need to learn, we have already fixed and restricted our actions to learn more.
To change our mindset, one must desire the change and feel motivated to change. If there is no driving force and desire to change, your mindset will remain unchanged or will revert back to your old perspective once difficulties or time sets in.
Write down the desired goals you want to achieve in changing your mindset to a learning mindset. These goals will give you the purpose to motivate you and help you maintain the learning mindset.
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Taking on New Challenges  

Find something new to do! Even if what you do is repetitive, you can change up the method you do your work, find unconventional, innovative yet more efficient method to tackle your work.
Our learning methods are boundless, but we have to take initiative to challenge ourselves with new things to solve and work on. Of course, you can also be pro-active and help out your colleagues in their work to learn what they do as well.

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Give Time for Self-Reflection  
Time spent reflecting is time well spent. I do not mean dwelling on your mistakes and misery. Or even dwelling too much on the praises you got when did well, as it will only blind you with complacency and limits your mindset in further improving yourself.
Firstly, it means to identify what you have done wrong and the reason why it is wrong. By understanding your mistakes, you can tackle future similar encounters with a different approach and perspective to avoid making the same mistake.
Secondly, on the flip side, identify what you did right, and why you have done it in an appropriate and correct manner. When you have understood the reason why what you do is correct, you can then apply this to other similar situations as well.
Furthermore, if you found loopholes in what you have done, you can correct it and improve yourself the next time you meet such problems.
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Receiving Constructive Feedback 
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There will be many times that we are blind to our own weaknesses, and requires advices and nudges from our truthful fellow colleagues or friends.
Although this may be a hard pill to swallow for some people, but in the long-term, it will be good to us. Hearing only sweet yet untruthful words, can be occasionally poison to our learning.
But do note to take feedbacks with a pinch of salt, what people perceive in you should not define or label you. To ensure that the feedback given is genuinely true, you can either cross-reference the feedbacks with other colleagues or friends, or observe the if the intentions behind the person telling you the feedback is genuine and good.
Ultimately, the final decision to change lies in you, nobody has the key to change you and you have to make that choice and effort yourself.
 

Finally,
What we do in our everyday lives are an accumulation of small decisions we have made for ourselves. Have you made a decision to learn? Start with something new, or something you like, or something you have never tried but always wanted to!
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