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The Power of Learning

www.accelerance.co 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

• n the improvement of business

performance.

Welcome!

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.

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What brought you here?

And... Before we start...

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Outcomes for today…? 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

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Your/our priorities?

Outcomes for today…

• Discuss and clarify possible applications of learning power in your
• rganisation
• Practice enriching the design of leadership development using the

eight dimensions of learning

• Share and discuss real case examples from participants’ own
• rganisations
• 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.

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Your/our priorities?

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What makes someone an effective learner?

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What makes someone an effective learner... …at work? What difference does it make?

Why is Learning so Important, Now?

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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.

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Knowledge used to be in the ivory tower. Now, everything we know is online, at our fingertips.

Impact of digital

Agrarian Economy Industrial Economy Service Economy Digital Economy WORK ACTIVITIES Allocation of work to human capacity Allocation of work to automated capacity to gain competitive advantage Re-allocation of work to the human capacity released by automation to gain competitive advantage INNOVATE LEARN DELIVER MAKE PLAN DEFINE LEAD KEY RELATE The Power of Learning

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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

As much as 45% of work activity could be automated

Managers 23% Automatable Chief Executives 25% Automatable

Organisations need to adapt, but...

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INDUSTRIAL WORLD DIGITAL WORLD Value driven more by position and process Value driven more by idea and project

The past drive for efficiency makes it harder to adapt and change.

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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
• r transform ourselves, effectively.

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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

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Learning Power: ‘Dispositions’

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Mindful Agency Curiosity Creativity Sense Making Belonging Collaboration Optimism & Hope Openness Readiness

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,

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Eight dimensions of learning power

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Mindful Agency Hope & Optimism Collaboration Belonging Curiosity Sense Making Creativity Open Readiness

NOT AT ALL LIKE ME VERY MUCH LIKE ME

1 2 3 4 5 6

I take responsibility for my own learning. I know how I learn, plan learning carefully and use each dimension of learning power effectively. I have a clear learning purpose and adapt it as I make progress. I am optimistic, hopeful and confident that I will learn and succeed over time. I have a growth mindset; I believe I can create the knowledge I need for what I want to achieve. I learn well with and from others, as well as by myself. I collaborate to create new insights, ideas and knowledge we can

• use. I listen and contribute productively

when learning as a team. I belong to a group or community to whom I can turn when I have particular questions to ask or problems to

• solve. I have social networks and friendships to draw
• n when I need them, and I provide the same in return.

I am naturally curious. I like to get beneath the surface of things and find out more. I am always wondering and asking questions like, ‘why?’, ‘how come?’, ‘what if?’ and ‘who says so?’ I make sense of new information and make connections with what I already know from different

• sources. I connect what I’m

learning with my purpose and the performance I want to improve.

Mindful Agency Curiosity

When I am learning, I use my intuition and imagination to generate new ideas and knowledge. I take risks and try different ways of learning to arrive at the answer, solution or outcome I need.

Sense Making Belonging Collaboration Hope and Optimism

Rating Scale

6 - Very much like me 5 - Quite a lot like me 4 - Quite like me 3 - A little like me 2 - Not very much like me 1 - Not at all like me

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

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Self-Assessment Guidance Notes

Read each definition and use the Rating Scale to assess yourself as a learner in a specific context (work, home, social life etc)

• r across a broad range life-wide situations.

Creativity

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Self-Directed Learning

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LEARN EFFECTIVELY CLARIFY YOUR PURPOSE PRACTICE TO PERFECT PERFORM SUCCESSFULLY

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Mindful Agency Curiosity Creativity Sense Making Belonging Collaboration Optimism & Hope Openness Readiness

Case examples in leadership development

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Creating a climate for learning Enriching design of experiential learning Preparing for disruptive innovation

Improving the impact of learning solutions

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How would you design and deliver.. for optimal impact? Real examples... ...what’s your project? …how can we help you?

Improving the Learning Ability in Your Team Coaching for Learning

See Improving the Learning Ability in Your Team A Leader’s Guide

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Mindful Agency Curiosity Creativity Sense Making Belonging Collaboration Optimism & Hope Open Readiness

How would you coach improvement?

INDIVIDUALS TEAMS

Reflection Masterclass Insights

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Reflective conversation

• What ideas have stood out for you?
• How might you follow them up, develop or use them?

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