PAPER making! FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF PAPER TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF PAPER TE Volume 7, Number 1, 2021
How to Increase Your Learning Agility: 4 Tips
In times of change, leaders need to be more agile than ever. Adapting to new business strategies, working across cultures, dealing with virtual teams, and taking on new assignments all demand that leaders be flexible and agile. The willingness and ability to continue learning throughout your career is more important now than ever, as the workplace has been upended, business models are changing, and technology and industries shift. What do you do when you don’t know what to do? To be a high-performer and increase your long-term potential, you need a way to deal with the unknown — and fast. We all need to learn to adapt and thrive in ambiguous or new situations, and as noted in Learning Agility: Unlock the Lessons of Experience, when you don’t know what to do, learning agility is the key. The ability to learn from experience is also a critical predictor of success as a leader, according to decades of our research. (Learn more about how to gauge if you’re an agile learner likely to have a long career.) Learning agility is about knowing how to learn — knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do. It’s about learning from experience and applying it in new ways, adapting to new circumstances and opportunities. It’s never too soon (or too late) to increase your learning agility. So, if you want to increase your performance — and your long-term potential — you can boost your learning agility in several ways.
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The Paper Industry Technical Association (PITA) is an independent organisation which operates for the general benefit of its members – both individual and corporate – dedicated to promoting and improving the technical and scientific knowledge of those working in the UK pulp and paper industry. Formed in 1960, it serves the Industry, both manufacturers and suppliers, by providing a forum for members to meet and network; it organises visits, conferences and training seminars that cover all aspects of papermaking science. It also publishes the prestigious journal Paper Technology International and the PITA Annual Review , both sent free to members, and a range of other technical publications which include conference proceedings and the acclaimed Essential Guide to Aqueous Coating .
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