Bradley Staats on How to Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive

Description

Jobs and industries change, and the professionals who keep up are the ones who keep learning. This course, based on Staats’s book Never Stop Learning, covers the habits that make that possible and the biases that get in the way. You’ll learn why people overestimate how much failure will hurt and why experienced people stop asking questions. Later lessons cover rest and reflection, working from your strengths, specializing day to day while adding variety over time, and learning from other people.

Each lesson has a video from Staats followed by a reading, with flashcards and a sorting activity to check your understanding.

About the expert

Bradley Staats is a professor at the UNC Business School and the author of Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive. The course draws on his own studies, including one with Francesca Gino on how task switching affected learning among bank workers. In the closing video he offers his parting advice on continuing to learn.

What you’ll be able to do

• Recognize impact bias, the tendency to overestimate how painful failure will be
• Evaluate your process regularly, looking for small improvements that add up
• Ask better questions by checking your confirmation bias and holding opinions loosely
• Make time to reflect, and explain why a reflection group outperformed a practice group in Staats’s study
• Decide which weaknesses to leave alone and which strengths to build on
• Follow a T-shaped model: stay specialized day to day and widen your subjects over the long term
• Build a transactive memory system by working with the same people over time

Who it’s for

Professionals at any stage who want to stay useful as their field changes, and managers who are responsible for how their teams learn.

What’s inside

10 lessons, self-paced:

1. Introduction
2. Learn From Failure
3. Focus on Process, Not Outcome
4. Ask Questions
5. Recharge and Reflect
6. Be Yourself
7. Play to Your Strengths
8. Specialize Today, Seek Variety Tomorrow
9. Learn From Others
10. Conclusion

What you get

• 365 days of access from the date of purchase
• A certificate of completion when you finish the course
• Your place is saved, so you can stop and come back whenever you like
• Works on a computer, tablet or phone

You can also get this course, and every other course in the library, with All Access for $99.99 a year.