Leaders' mandate ultimately is to ensure that they are creating the right culture and leading by example. They need to therefore plan and enable employees to do the same.
Another critical role that a leader plays is to ensure psychological safety - and make enough room for mistakes to be made and for employees to learn from them.
Since CEOs are focused on the short, medium and long-term impact, learning should be contextualized towards the nature of the business and not be too focused on the kind of technology or the pedagogy involved, while both of them are important.
There are a number of things that leaders need to be aware of in building their own attitude towards learning, and understanding the context of the business and the macroeconomic environment is crucial.
The five crucial indicators are demographics, diversity, understanding the potential of digital in enabling learning and the workplace, operating in a business environment and managing a dispersed workforce.
It is important for a leader to understand the future of learning which will help them in shaping their attitude.
Intelligent learning will be driven using intelligence augmentation related technologies like AI, VR, IoT.
There are certain qualities that a leader should do to build the right attitude and inspire his/her team.
* Nurturing and encouraging employees to ask questions.
* Ensure that employees imbibe and live the right values.
* Focus on capability building to enhance agility
* Succession planning enabled training needs identification.
* Identify contextually relevant metrics that need to be tracked.
Courtesy: www.peoplematters.in
