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Rally the team. Build your own support team for your learning goal.
We’re continuing to look at the six questions you need to consider as you take on a new learning project and strive to meet your goal. Today, we’re considering:
- Who could help me meet this goal?
In my experience, this is one of the most overlooked questions. And, yet teamwork and effective collaboration are some of the most prized workplace skills that exist today. We have to learn to work with people and even rely on them to help us build our skills and knowledge when we have gaps that they’ve already closed.
My best friend and I will often get into bouts of “I do myself” syndrome. The cry of the three year old striving to demonstrate how they are all grown up sticks with us through adulthood. And, yet that desire to “do myself” often hurts us.
So, as you take on this step, I want you to fight through that feeling and think about who you know that could help you along the way. Here’s a list of possibilities to kickstart your thinking:
- Family & friends
- A coworker who has a career path that inspires you
- An alumni of an institution you graduated from or worked at who you admire
- A current or former teacher or professor
