Accelerating Your Development as a Leader: A Guide for Leaders and Their Managers

Building Learning-Agile Leaders

So far we have discussed how career professionals can build a solid framework for accelerating their development by identifying development gaps, constructing a development plan, and leveraging developmental assignments. With this framework in place, they can look for ways to accelerate learning on the job. Chapter 5 of the Participant's Guide shows career professionals how to accelerate learning by (1) performing an honest self-assessment of their learning agility, (2) taking advantage of all possible avenues for learning, and (3) increasing the efficiency of their learning process. In the remainder of this chapter we will review the challenges that career planners face in implementing each of these actions and ...