Accelerating Your Development as a Leader: A Guide for Leaders and Their Managers

The Challenges Faced by Career Professionals

While the starting point for accelerating on-the-job learning is forming a clearer picture of one's learning agility, several factors make this first step particularly difficult. The first is simply the speed at which we work. During the day I am sure that you have your hands full attempting to juggle conflicting priorities, wrestle with sticky problems, and stay one step ahead of your jammed Outlook calendar and overloaded email account. For people who are operating within this type of fast-paced work environment, it can be difficult to step back from the work and reflect on how they are going to achieve results and the degree to which they are actually adapting to, and learning from, new work experiences. ...