Wendy Goh: Activating the Mindset for Continuous Learning (#2)
Wendy Goh has more than 20 years of hands-on experience in learning & organisational development (L&OD). She enjoys working with individuals, teams and organisations to bring out their best performance through learning, leadership development, coaching and career development. She has served at various large corporations as a learning specialist and Regional Learning Lead and is currently an independent consultant.
In this episode, we explore the importance of continuous learning and how to cultivate a growth mindset. We also discuss various strategies, tips, and insights to help you develop the mindset of an engaged learner to stay relevant by developing the ability to adapt to new ways of working.
Whether you're a student, professional, or lifelong learner, this episode is full of nuggets of practical wisdom that you can take and apply to your own journey of growth and development. We hope you enjoy this interview and let us know in the comments what was your one key takeaway that resonates with you!
Wendy Goh’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-goh-b21b638/
You can watch the podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/be_IRbkmRNU
Timestamps
0:00 Episode highlight
01:58 Career changing moment with her first manager
06:27 Learning to stay relevant
09:16 New ways of working
11:57 Two different learning mindsets
13:21 The key to be a better version of ourselves
15:48 Overcoming the discomfort of learning something new
18:54 70-20-10 approach to learning and getting feedback
22:38 What organizations want
25:43 Are you in a learning organization?
27:47 Before you invest in learning to make a career change
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We hope this episode will inspire you to take action today, no matter how small it may be!
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Quotes from the interview:
“It sounds too daunting, but they will learn the same skills, but a different way perhaps being in that project group so I think one of the mistakes is we very quick dismiss the action learning we think that it may be not as structured, but I think the value of really going there and doing it is really helps you to get into that discomfort earlier.”
— Wendy Goh
"That mindset of learning has to shift. I'm coming in with the fresh pair of lens. I'm going to get into the topic, chew on it, digest it, and say what can I get out of it? So there's always something new that you can pick up, which can change the way we work."
— Wendy Goh
"Especially in mid-career where it's typically the more difficult group to shift. Because you have achieved a level of career success already, and you have learned so many things and then now you are going in to make a career change where you might be taking a few steps back. But I like to see this as rock climbers there is no one path to climb a rock sometimes you've gotta go down figure out another path to move back up again so it's really how you want to navigate this if you're gonna see as a ladder, then yes when you make career change middle like it's coming down, it may, but if you look at it from coming a rock wall, you're really looking at possibilities of moving up as long as you're moving."
— Wendy Goh
“Sometimes it's not just saying boss, "Hey, I can't solve my problem I need a new role or new job, but it's about saying I've noticed these things that I'm doing, which I feel I'm doing well I'm able to contribute. What do you think? And could we find a way to use these skills in another area? Or another capacity. And even if it isn't, at least you had a chance to explore that.”
— Wendy Goh
“We have this notion about okay, "Oh, there's a new skill, let's go and learn it, right?" but I actually think that more learners should step back and say, when is the opportunity for me to immediately use this skill? Because a skill can be learn knowledge can be learned, but until you use it and becomes part of your repertoire, your experience, that then counts as really your own skill that you're bringing.”
— Wendy Goh
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