Founded in 2011, Accelerance is a leadership and organization development consulting firm. With offices and extended teams in London and Singapore, Accelerance provides bespoke leadership, talent and executive development solutions, always focused on the improvement of business performance. Welcome! The Power of Learning www.accelerance.co
Tim Coburn • Tim Coburn is a Partner with Accelerance with 30 years ’ experience at world class companies. His career includes senior positions in leadership and organization development at the BBC, Motorola and Rolls-Royce where he was Global Head of Talent and Global Head of L&D. As an interim specialist, he was Head of Leadership at Kenya Airways, Head of Talent at Syngenta and Director of Leadership Development at Serco. • His interest in learning ability, and how to leverage it to enable leaders and their organisations to succeed, was enriched by his role as a Research Fellow in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol, England. In addition to working with the research team who discovered learning power, he led its development for leaders and learning specialists in the world of work. The Power of Learning
What brought you here? The Power of Learning
Outcomes for today …? Your/our priorities? And... Before we start... The Power of Learning
Your/our priorities? Outcomes for today … • Understand learning power and its eight dimensions • Discover how effective a learner you are and how you might improve your learning ability • Understand how learning power improves the impact of learning solutions • Examine real case examples where learning power has been used to enrich leadership development The Power of Learning
Your/our priorities? Outcomes for today … • Discuss and clarify possible applications of learning power in your organisation • Practice enriching the design of leadership development using the eight dimensions of learning • Share and discuss real case examples from participants’ own organisations • Receive a copy of ‘Improving the Learning Ability in Your Team: A Leader’s Guide’ and discuss the potential of Coaching for Learning for the leader as coach. The Power of Learning
What makes someone an effective learner? The Power of Learning
What makes someone an effective learner... … at work? What difference does it make? The Power of Learning
Why is Learning so Important, Now? The Power of Learning
Why focus on learning? • The ability to learn from experience is the strongest indicator of the potential to succeed* • More important than intelligence, motivation and expertise • In a digital world, the work people do is more complex, requiring the quick acquisition of knowledge and application of new ideas. • Learning as we perform is in everyone ’ s job – especially for leaders. *Source: Lombardo, M. M., & Eichinger, R. W. (2000). High potentials as high learners. Human Resource Management, 39(4), 321-329. The Power of Learning
Knowledge used to be in the ivory tower. Now, everything we know is online, at our fingertips. The Power of Learning
Impact of digital WORK ACTIVITIES Agrarian Economy Industrial Economy Service Economy Digital Economy LEAD RELATE INNOVATE LEARN DELIVER MAKE PLAN DEFINE Allocation of work to human capacity Allocation of work to automated capacity to gain competitive advantage KEY The Power of Learning Re-allocation of work to the human capacity released by automation to gain competitive advantage
As much as 45% of work activity could be automated Managers Chief Executives 23% Automatable 25% Automatable Analysis of work activities for 750+ occupations (USA) to estimate the % time that could be automated with currently demonstrated technology. Source: Four Fundamentals of Workplace Automation, McKinsey Quarterly, November, 2015 The Power of Learning
Organisations need to adapt, but... The past drive for efficiency makes it harder to adapt and change. INDUSTRIAL WORLD DIGITAL WORLD Value driven more by Value driven more by position and process idea and project The Power of Learning
Learning Power The Power of Learning
What do we mean by learning? Definition • Learning at work is the way we adapt, develop, improve or transform ourselves, in order to perform successfully. • It is also the way we perform in order to adapt, develop, improve or transform ourselves, effectively. The Power of Learning
How does learning happen? • Process eg Kolb, Action Learning • Style eg Honey and Mumford • Reflection eg Argyris & Schon, Double Loop Learning • Preference eg Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic, NLP • Capability eg Lominger, Learning Agility The Power of Learning
Learning Power: ‘ Dispositions ’ Mindful Agency Sense Making Optimism & Hope Collaboration Creativity Belonging Curiosity Openness Readiness The Power of Learning
Learning Power: Key Features • Dispositions: inclination and ability • Holistic: thinking, feeling, acting • Inclusive: life-long and life-wide • Interdependent: work together • Context dependent: effectiveness varies, no fixed profile • Plastic: improves with practice • Self assessment: more authentic, more ownership • Useful: ‘feels right’, a natural language for learning, The Power of Learning
Eight dimensions of learning power NOT AT ALL LIKE ME VERY MUCH LIKE ME Mindful Agency Sense Making Belonging Hope & Optimism Creativity Curiosity Open Readiness Collaboration The Power of Learning
Learning Power Mindful Agency I take responsibility for my own learning. I know how I learn, plan learning carefully and use each Self-Assessment Guidance Notes Rating Scale dimension of learning power effectively. I have a Read each definition and use the Rating 6 - Very much like me clear learning purpose and adapt it as I make Scale to assess yourself as a learner in a 5 - Quite a lot like me 4 - Quite like me progress. specific context (work, home, social life etc) 3 - A little like me or across a broad range life-wide situations. 6 2 - Not very much like me 1 - Not at all like me 5 Hope and Optimism Sense Making 4 I am optimistic, hopeful and I make sense of new information confident that I will learn and and make connections with what I 3 succeed over time. I have a growth already know from different sources. I connect what I ’ m mindset; I believe I can create the 2 knowledge I need for what I want to learning with my purpose and the achieve. performance I want to improve. 1 Collaboration Creativity I learn well with and from others, as well When I am learning, I use my intuition as by myself. I collaborate to create new and imagination to generate new insights, ideas and knowledge we can ideas and knowledge. I take risks and use. I listen and contribute productively try different ways of learning to arrive when learning as a team. at the answer, solution or outcome I need. Belonging Curiosity I belong to a group or community to whom I can turn I am naturally curious. I like to get beneath the when I have particular questions to ask or problems to surface of things and find out more. I am always wondering and asking questions like, ‘why?’, solve. I have social networks and friendships to draw ‘how come?’, ‘what if?’ and ‘who says so?’ on when I need them, and I provide the same in return. Open Readiness I am open, willing and ready to learn – not rigid, dependent or closed to learning and change. I am flexible in my self-belief, willing to persist and ready to manage any self-doubt. Rigid Persistence Fragile Dependence The Power of Learning
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Self-Directed Learning CLARIFY YOUR LEARN PRACTICE TO PERFORM PURPOSE EFFECTIVELY PERFECT SUCCESSFULLY The Power of Learning
Mindful Agency Optimism & Hope Sense Making Collaboration Creativity Belonging Curiosity Openness Readiness The Power of Learning
Case examples in leadership development The Power of Learning
Creating a climate for learning Enriching design of experiential learning Preparing for disruptive innovation The Power of Learning
Improving the impact of learning solutions The Power of Learning
How would you design and deliver.. for optimal impact? Real examples... ...what’s your project? …how can we help you? The Power of Learning
Improving the Learning Ability in Your Team Coaching for Learning See Improving the Learning Ability in Your Team A Leader ’ s Guide The Power of Learning
Mindful Agency Sense Making Optimism & Hope How would you coach improvement? Collaboration Creativity Belonging Curiosity INDIVIDUALS TEAMS Open Readiness The Power of Learning
Reflection Masterclass Insights The Power of Learning
Reflective conversation • What ideas have stood out for you? • How might you follow them up, develop or use them? The Power of Learning
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