Leadership in Action: Return on Experience: A Mind-Set for Learning Leadership at Work

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Whereas mastery represents a move toward depth of expertise, versatility represents a move toward breadth of capacity. It is about the expansion of your capacity through learning. When you learn new skills or gain new perspectives from experience, you can extend the arena of possibilities within which they operate and open up new repertoires of thinking and acting. You are able to break habitual cycles of unproductive beliefs and behaviors by exposure to experiences that challenge your current ways of thinking.

Go after tasks and roles that give you reason to practice the skills you need to learn. Identify specific capabilities or areas to develop, assess your current skill level, and use the work assignment as a lab for learning. ...