#LearningGoalsAndHabits 🎯

The responsibility for our own continuous #learning lies with each and every one of us. And this takes us to an important question: What do you actually want to learn? Setting #goals is the very first step towards successful learning. What makes reaching your goal easier is to be totally committed to it. The goals need to be relevant to you. 🙌

And what is needed to build up a new habit? The good news is: 5 minutes every day is enough to create a habit for the long term and make progress. It takes about 6-8 weeks to anchor a new habit firmly in your behavior. Therefore, set a goal that you can achieve and stick to it.

In our Global Learning Weeks we also found out about a great #LearningHack: Habit Stacking. Have you heard about it yet? 🧐 Habit stacking can be described as the process of stacking habits on top of each other; you follow up a habit with another one. An existing habit becomes a trigger for your new habit.

For example, you might say after I brew my morning coffee, I drink it while reading a book. That way the new behavior is associated with something you have already internalized. ☕📚

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

That’s the historian Will Durant about habits, paraphrasing Aristotle in his book 'The Story of Philosophy'. And we totally agree! 😉

Now it´s your turn: What has been something that you wanted to learn, but did not have time for?

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments! 💛

#FailingIsLearning 👑

We all know the feeling of being stressed, busy and wishing the day had more than 24 hours. If there is no time for anything that is not of highest priority, then how would you fit a learning activity into your schedule? But we sometimes make it too easy for us: Learning does not always mean adding activities to the already more than full calendar. ☝️

70 % of our learnings come from what we do every day, through our own work, especially through new tasks, challenges, crises, changes and… making mistakes.

Moments of failure, our small and big defeats, are some of the greatest opportunities for us to learn and grow. 🚀

It is important to address failures as such and evaluate them to, in the end, turn a failure into a learning you can benefit from in the future: Create a "Museum of Failure"!

This learning hack celebrates doing mistakes. On your own or as a team you can prepare an exhibition of failures and reward the mistake from which you have learned the most.

What is your fail of the week?

#LearningFromAndWithOthers💛

From whom can we learn better than from… our children?! 👧🧑

Children are learning wonders. They naturally learn new things every day and discover their environment: Learning is their habit.

During our Global Learning Weeks we aspired to see the world through children´s eyes and met our Conti children who are real learning experts and gave loads of inspiration! 💫

Why not follow our children´s example? We adults spend a third of our lives at work. So, it’s no surprise that our learning culture and our learning habits matter deeply.

Also, when people come together and exchange ideas, the best conditions are given to learn. 🚀

The challenge of learning as a team at work? Building a joint habit takes time and shared commitment from every employee. And: We must do it every day.

A learning hack to establish routines is the Agenda Zero. Every meeting with more than three participants begins with a very short agenda item Zero. The one who has organized or invited to a meeting, ensures that someone shares a learning.

That way learning as a team becomes a habit - just as it is for children. 💪

Is there something you have been able to learn from (your) children? Let us share our thoughts with each other in the comments! 🤩