Circles Of Learning

The process of learning and development can be tailored as per your plans. You can be intentional about the skills and experiences you need to gain to get to the next role, incrementing slowly towards your desired path, your aspirations and career goals. It starts with you.

- Heena Raval

All through our years of growing up from childhood to adulthood, as a person and as a professional, if there is one thing that we constantly get advised upon - sometimes unsolicit edit is about learning and development. We are asked to be a constant seeker of knowledge and growth. Constant learning and thinking, exploring and adapting has been the cornerstone of human evolution.

I come across a lot of mentees who ask, there is so much to do, so little time, I don't know what I should learn and develop on, I want an accelerated career path in the organisation etc. My coaching on these topics is usually quite basic. We are all born with a natural tool kit, skills to survive, our intuition and instincts. As we underwent formal or informal education, planned or unplanned experiences, we keep adding and updating this tool kit inherited by us at birth. We add more skills and more perspectives. This takes place irrespective of whether we intentionally and knowingly do it or not. And, that is what growing up is all about. Now, given that you have decided to take up a corporate career, and, there is a certain level of expectation from you as a professional, you surely want to thrive and succeed. That being the case, the process of learning and development can be tailored as per your plans. You can be intentional about the skills and experiences you need to gain to get to the next role, incrementing slowly towards your desired path, your aspirations and career goals. It starts with you. Think about the things that give you energy, the topics of your interest, what motivates you to take out that extra time and learn something. Each one of us is a result of our unique experiences, skills, attitudes and values. My guiding principle has been Individual Commitment + Trusting Teams + Effective Organisation =Sustainable achievements.

The Circle of Concern