As we settle into the new year it’s important not to lose sight of any New Year’s resolutions or goals you’ve set for 2022. In L&D, we are actively honing in on Lifelong Learning and would like to encourage everyone to take initiative - and reap the benefits - of developing this important soft skill.

Lifelong learning will help fuel your progress toward your New Year’s resolutions, and this skill can be the catalyst to actualize your goals. It involves more than a mindset of willingness. Lifelong learning entails formal and informal processes and includes personal and professional development activities you engage in to continue your growth and learning.

Research has shown that individuals who make lifelong learning a priority experience a number of personal and professional benefits from their mindset and action.

Some Benefits of Lifelong Learning:

• Enhances competence – or further develops your knowledge, awareness, and skills.
• Life and work become more interesting, which increases motivation.
• You can respond quickly to requests for new information.
• You become more assured in challenging circumstances.
• You are better able to pivot and meet the needs for career security.

So how can you better activate the parts of your brain that will help you reap the benefits of lifelong learning now and become more adept at what you will do in the future?

Here are some quick ideas to deploy the active learner in you:

• Visit our YouTube Channel and watch a two-minute video on a topic or skill you’d like to brush up on or learn more about.
• Learn strategies to better manage your time and budget or get dialed in on your optimal health and wellness strategy. Intellezy offers a number of software training videos (e.g., all levels of Excel) to simplify how you track and manage these aspects of your life.
• Take advantage of our Limelight Courses.
• Pick up some industry books and plan to read them by the end of the year.
• Think critically, and engage your colleagues in setting team goals while outlining action items that will further your collective knowledge and expertise.

For more information on how Intellezy can help strengthen and be part of your organization - reach out to us directly at info@intellezy.com