Learn Your Way to Success: How to Customize Your Professional Learning Plan to Accelerate Your Career

  • 2h 38m
  • Daniel R. Tobin
  • McGraw-Hill
  • 2012

In today’s highly competitive work environment, continuous learning is an absolute necessity—a requirement to keep up with the latest innovations in your field and increase your productivity. Learn Your Way to Success helps you launch your career to new heights by being an “active learner.” It provides invaluable tools for:

  • Planning your personal learning agenda
  • Applying what you learn in a practical way
  • Using online learning resources to “learn what you need to learn”
  • Maximizing your learning at conferences or trade shows
  • Taking advantage of the unique learning opportunities of working in a team
  • Keeping track of what you have learned—and what you want to learn

About the Author

Daniel R. Tobin has more than 30 years of experience in the learning and development field. He has founded two corporate universities, served as vice president of design and development at the American Management Association, and delivered keynotes and workshops on five continents.

In this Book

  • Learning on the Job: Set Your Personal Learning Agenda
  • Taking Training: How to Get the Maximum Benefit from Training
  • Recognizing Your Limits: Have the Humility to Learn
  • Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: Utilize Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Experimenting: Learn from Trial and Error
  • Asking Questions: Be a Smart Dummy
  • Defining Teams by What They Learn
  • Learning on the Web: Benefit from the Generosity of Strangers
  • Learning from Conferences and Trade Shows
  • Building Your Personal Learning Network