2020-05-26 00:00:00, Keith Keating, Chief Learning Officer – CLO Media

Content Categorization
/Jobs & Education

Word Count:
1525

Words/Sentence:
25

Reading Time:
10.17 min

Reading Quality:
Adept

Readability:
13th to 15th

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When you become a lifelong learner and focus on continual learning of new, in-demand skills, you claim the power to face the future of work successfully.

What Does it Mean to Be a Lifelong Learner?

Abandon the commonly held notion that learning is for children and young adults.

Instilling lifelong learning ensures talent remains agile, adaptable and ready to fill the next organizational gap.

In today's work climate, lifelong learning paves the way for current and future success.

In the most basic terms, a lifelong learner is someone who keeps acquiring new skills and capabilities well past their formal education years.

You are first in line for layoffs or downsizing.

If you develop yourself personally and professionally well enough, and continue to do so for the rest of your life, you (or your brand) becomes the asset instead of the one skill you have to offer.

How to Become a Lifelong Learner

Understanding the benefits of both professional and personal development throughout your life does little if you cannot apply effective methods to become the best type of lifelong learner.

This is the cycle of a lifelong learner.

Chart by Keith Keating and Greg Cira Designs.

Modern careers are like nonstop conveyor belts – you need to keep moving and learning no matter what the stage of your career.

The combination of educational opportunities today and the right mindset of noncomplacency and responsibility gives you the power to build a future that more closely aligns with your passions.

Lifelong learners prosper in this new, increasingly flexible and dynamic global economy.

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