Identikit picture of a Lifelong Learner

1. Identikit picture of a Lifelong Learner Lisa Hahn Work-life Balance 25.11.2010

2. Content • Definition of Lifelong Learning • Qualifications of a Lifelong Learner • Willing • Ability • Empowerment • Summery of an ideal attitude • Relevance for new trends of HR • How can we realize this ideal as a manager?

3. 1. Definition of Lifelong Learning „all Learning Activity Undertaken throughout Life, with the Aim of Improving Knowledge, Skills, and Competences within Personal, Civic, Social and/or Employment-related Perspective”. (Source: Communication form the Commission: Making a European Area of Lifelong Learning a Reality, Nov. 2002. - http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/life/communication) • Learning throughout all stages of life • General, vocational and personal skills involved • Formal system of education and informal activities 2 equal aims: promoting active citizenship and employability

4. 2. Characteristics of a Lifelong Learner Lifelong Learner Will Ablility Empowerment

5. 2.1. Willing • Enthusiastic • Belief in the importance and self-fulfilment of LLL • Curiosity, experimenters • Self-confidence Depends on experiences and general attitude of learning and education

6. 2. Characteristics of a Lifelong Learner Lifelong Learner Will Ability Empowerment

7. 2.2. Ablility • Learning skills • Learning opportunities • Proactice and self-managed • Self-monitoring/introspection • Improvements • Increase of quality and quantity • Transfer Assumes good self-awareness

8. 2. Characteristics of a Lifelong Learner Lifelong Learner Will Ability Empowerment

9. 2.3. Empowerment • Full responsibility • Claim feedback and coaching • Influence culture and system • Encourage peers to learn Internal motivation

10. 3. Summary of the attitude NOT… • have to be forced to learn • dependant on implicit learning • only trying to enlarge knowledge But… Learning is • a gateway to skills, insights, beliefs, feelings, self-awareness • a „cohent thread“ through life • a combination of „natural“ and deliberate learning

11. 4. Relevance for new trends in HR: Big 5

12. 4. Relevance for new trends in HR • Big 5 • Managing talent • Managing demographics • Learning organisation • Work Life balance • Managing change Development of own talent (advantage in the „war for talents“) People who are willing, able and empowered to learn as a postulate for a learning organisation (transfer learning to work place) LLL as an intrinsic motivation is able to change the culture and the system of the company

13. 5. Realization • Lifelong Learning strategy should aim to • Gaining and renewing the skills • Effective teaching and learning methods • Higher investment in human resources • Valuing learning • Access to information and advice • Bringing learning closer to the learner (Key Messages of the EU’s Memorandum on Lifelong Learning, Oct. 2000):

14. 5. Realization • How can we achieve this ideal as a manager? • Create a culture with lots of opportunities to learn • Offering trainings, higher investment in quality and quantity • Financial aid for employee education • Develop new training and learning methods based on the demand of the employees • Valuing development, attractive career paths • Enable employees to learn at home/informal (computer-based, magazines, books) • Inform and consult employees of learning/training opportunities

15. 5. Realization Benefits • High motivated, ingenious employees • More effort, more ideas • Continously high-skilled employees • Evective trainings by a better transfer to work place • Developing own talents (effective talent management) • Innovation • Competitiveness

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