Learn Your Way to Success: How to Customize Your Professional Learning Plan to Accelerate Your Career

by Tobin, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780071782258
• ISBN10: 0071782257
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-19
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Supercharge your job performance and get where your want to be by becoming an ACTIVE LEARNER In today's highly competitive work environment, continuous learning is an absolute necessitya requirement to keep up with the latest innovations in the field and increase productivity. Learn Your Way to Successhelps you spot otherwise overlooked opportunities to learn and teaches you how to take advantage of them. It provides tools for setting a personal learning agenda, keeping track of what is learned, and determining how to use that learning to improve performance in their current job, prepare for their next job, and plan their careers. Daniel R. Tobinhas more than 30 years of experience in the learning and development field. He has founded two corporate universities (Digital Equipment Corporation's Network University and Wang Global/Getronics Virtual University) and served as vice president of design and development at the American Management Association (AMA).

Author Biography

Daniel R. Tobin has more than 30 years of experience in the learning and development field. He has founded two corporate universities, served as vice president of design and development at the American Management Association, and delivered keynotes and workshops on five continents.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What Did You Learn at Work Today?	p. v
Learning on the Job: Set Your Personal Learning Agenda	p. 1
Taking Training: How to Get the Maximum Benefit from Training	p. 31
Recognizing Your Limits: Have the Humility to Learn	p. 45
Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: Utilize Critical and Creative Thinking	p. 53
Experimenting: Learn from Trial and Error	p. 85
Asking Questions: Be a Smart Dummy	p. 99
Defining Teams by What They Learn	p. 113
Learning on the Web: Benefit from the Generosity of Strangers	p. 137
Learning from Conferences and Trade Shows	p. 149
Building Your Personal Learning Network	p. 169
Appendix: Your Personal Learning Journal	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 192
Index	p. 193
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