What learning professionals require

There are three different kinds of education that you can acquire, either deliberately or in a random fashion. These three kinds of learning are maintenance learning, growth learning, and Innovation learning

1) Maintenance Learning

Maintenance learning refers to you keeping current with your field.

This keeps you on pace and prevents you from falling behind. Many people think that reading an occasional book and keeping current with blogs and newsletters is the equivalent of adding to their education.

Maintenance learning is absolutely essential. It’s similar to light physical exercise that keeps you at a particular level of fitness. It won’t increase your level of fitness or improve your conditioning in any way, but it will keep you in shape.

2) Growth Learning

This is the kind of learning that adds knowledge and skills to your profile that you did not have before.

Growth learning helps you expand your mind. You’re acquiring information that you didn’t have that enables you to do things that you could not do previously. Some of the very best thinkers in the world today are producing some of the very best material and ideas that you can use for continuous education and to help you expand your mind.

You can find this information by doing a quick search online. You can discover great ideas by listening to webinars, reading blogs, and reading books. You can discover incredible information without having to buy anything at all.

3) Innovation Learning

Innovatin learning is learning that contradicts or reverses a piece of knowledge or understanding that you already have.

A management guru said that the primary sources of innovation in a company are the unexpected succeses or the unexpected failures. Something that happens that is completely inconsistent with the expectations of what should have happened.

This “shock” can give you insights that can enable you to either take advantage of a major change in the marketplace or guard against a serious reversal.

Unfortunately, most people are creatures of habit. When something happens that is completely unexpected, they choose to ignore it in favor of the old information with which they are more comfortable. Don’t be afraid of change.

Always change and adapt.

Dedicate Yourself To Continuous Education