Learning to Learn

Question 1

Continual Personal Learning

Answer 1

• Consistently enhancing a person’s skills to further their understanding, knowledge
  and skills. It could be for a person’s personal growth, love of learning, exploring an
  area of interest or as part of their professional development.
• Ongoing formal and informal development of personal interests and understanding
• Develops your inter- and intra-personal skills
• Demonstrates personal and social competencies transferrable to work

Question 2

Examples of continual personal learning

Answer 2

• Community involvement (gains experience and expands your network)
• Public Speaking (builds your skills)
• Volunteer Work
• Travel (indepedence)
• Learning a language

Question 3

Continual Professional Learning

Answer 3

• Expanding a person’s skills in response to changing work environments and
  developments to ensure they can continue to work efficiently
• Ongoing formal and informal study, training and experience related to professional development over a lifetime
• Helps to keep skills updated as the industry changes
• Helps you to become a more valuable asset to your employer
• Helps you to achieve career growth
• Allows you to mentor and support colleagues with your knowledge

Question 4

Examples of continual professional learning

Answer 4

• Online courses
• Training courses
• Employer initiatives
• Graduate programs

Question 5

The importance of continual personal learning and professional development in the management of long-term career development

Answer 5

• Self-awareness which enables you to get to know your values, beliefs and purpose
• Greater resilience and motivation to try something new
• Improved sense of direction and focus
• More fulfilling relationships
• Improved effectiveness which comes with knowing and playing to your strengths

Question 6

Explain the benefits of workplace mentoring for both the mentor and mentee

Answer 6

A mentor is someone who agrees to advise and coach someone else over an extended period of time. For example, someone staying after work each day to explain how to use a specific program could be regarded as a mentor by the others.

Benefits for Mentor:
- Improves communication skills
- Helps career progress as a ‘coach’
- Allows them to see the workplace operations in a new light
- Able to contribute to the bigger-picture success of the organisation

Benefits for Mentee:
- Gets introduced to key people and responsibilities
- Get shown both the formal and informal workplace culture
- Have a person who they can ask for advice/support
- Receive ongoing training, support and guidance
- Assists people from diverse backgrounds get used to a new environment and work culture