L&D In Action: Winning Strategies from Learning Leaders
Learning-Based Work: Moving Beyond Doing Work to Defining Work through Discovery & Dialogue
December 5, 2023
The relationship between learning and work is experiencing a period of rapid evolution. Whereas we once trained as apprentices or students for a very specific skill set that could reliably carry us through a lifelong career, we now enhance our abilities on a daily basis with the help of technology. Soon enough, we’ll have to embrace an entirely new paradigm that posits work as learning and learning as work within a system that encourages us to define our own roles through constant discovery of knowledge.
The relationship between learning and work is experiencing a period of rapid evolution. Whereas we once trained as apprentices or students for a very specific skill set that could reliably carry us through a lifelong career, we now enhance our abilities on a daily basis with the help of technology. Soon enough, we’ll have to embrace an entirely new paradigm that posits work as learning and learning as work within a system that encourages us to define our own roles through constant discovery of knowledge.

So says Rachel Fichter, this week’s guest, who has spent years studying the work-learning relationship as a leader within corporations, strategist consulting with organizations, and educator in academia. She describes an industrial future that rethinks the hierarchies, management practices, and automations that currently characterize our professional lives. Can we move from a concept of leadership that is focused on individuals and control, to one that relies on the collective capabilities of a diverse group of people?

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