From the course: Learning with Agility in the Age of AI

Helping others helps you learn

From the course: Learning with Agility in the Age of AI

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Helping others helps you learn

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No matter what your age is or how much schooling you've had or how many jobs you've had, you've learned quite a bit in your life already. It's easy to forget just how much you've learned. Well, remember that there are two general categories of skills: know skills, the specific bodies of knowledge that we've learned; and flex skills, the broad skills we can use in a range of situations. Here we're going to focus on those know skills that you've gathered. Review your skills inventory list. What's something you've learned that you'd be willing to help someone else to learn? Maybe it's a cooking technique. Perhaps you have some insight into problem-solving in your work. Think about how to find someone who might want to learn what you know. How would you reach them and how would you teach them? Here's an opportunity to use an AI tool to develop a series of steps for teaching that topic to someone else. The next time your team is together, you could suggest that each of you lists four or five things you'd be happy to show someone else how to do. You're likely to find your coworkers know things you don't even realize. Remember that we're like icebergs to ourselves with a huge amount of human potential and skills below the water line. It's the same for your coworkers. They're icebergs to you too. The first result of this exercise will be to help everyone learn more about each other. Another result of that team exercise can be defined areas of mutual interest. Look at your curiosity catalog. Maybe one of your coworkers actually knows quite a bit about one of the topics on your list. You could ask your colleagues to each write up their own curiosity catalog and share it with each other. By seeing what each of you knows and what you're curious about, you're very likely to find areas of overlap.

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