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Ignite the curious learner in you
Belkis Vasquez-McCallJune 2017
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
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Belkis Vasquez-McCallDIGITAL PARTNER, MCKINSEY & COMPANY - NEW YORK
“My willingness to embark in unique learning opportunities has enabled my growth and success in life”Learning Philosophy: Willingness to change as individuals is powered by our ability to continuously evolve through obtaining new skills
Personal Learning Values:(1) intense focus fosters results, (2) continuously improve your game, (3) trade perfection for speed, (4) imitation is the best form of flattery
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Personal learning values
Intense focusfosters results
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Continuously improve your game
Trade perfection for speed
Imitation is the best form of flattery
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Today’s objectives
1 2 3Discuss why it is
important to focus on your learning agenda as you embark in an Agile
transformation
Recognize that mastery is about igniting the 'test &
learn' mindset
Understand how to get results by experimenting
with uncomfortable situations
Appreciate the need to adapt your learning agenda based on changes in your
environment
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What's a career in Tech like a decade ago?
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Basically, everything changed!Including how companies work.
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“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
– Albert Einstein
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What can we learn from the Agile Mindset?
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Agile is not a new process design, it is a way of working…
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Continually improveBest practice and knowledge
Direction and contextResponsibility to experiment
Plan effectively
Reflect on learningPrepared for high perfomance
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…it is a focusedLearning agenda
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Alignment and engagement
Continuous improvement
mindset
People development
Collaboration and idea sharing
… translated into a statement of desired learning behaviors
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… creates foundational learning mindsets, behaviors, and skills.
Learning mindsets,behaviors & skills
Leadership andmanagement skills
Technical andfunctional skills
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How can you boost your organizationand your personal learning process?
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Adopt 4 basicmantras
Learn how tomanage
uncertainty
Ignite the'test & learn’
mindset
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Adopt 4 basicmantras
Learn how tomanage
uncertainty
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Ignite the'test & learn’
mindset
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Thomas Edisonfailed on thousands of attempts until he found the correct filament for the light bulb.
Kleenex tissues were originally created to help women remove make-up.
WD40 gets its name from the number of attempts to get the water displacement formula correct.
Post-It notes were invented to replace bookmarks. Their idea was a failure.
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Learn how tomanage
uncertainty
Ignite the'test & learn’
mindset
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Adopt 4 basicmantras
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Ask for feedback
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Experiment with new approaches
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Look for connections across seemingly unrelated areas
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Make time for reflection
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Adopt 4 basicmantras
Ignite the'test & learn’
mindset
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Learn how tomanage
uncertainty
“Be water my friend.”- Chinese proverb
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Perhaps at no other time in recent history hasadaptability been more important than it is now.
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The power of adaptation
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Managing uncertainty through agility, adaptiveness, learning, and anticipation is often more efficient and effective than trying to do it through standardization, tightness, fixedness, barriers, and restrictions
It’s more popular too
Walt Disney was fired by the editor ofa newspaper because “he had no good ideas”.
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Once upon a time…
Give time and space for your curious learner side to grow!
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Thanks!
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