That means updating your current skills, acquiring new skills, and adding to the experiences that you have outside of work. Just a few years ago, being serious about learning meant going to school. Maybe you'd enroll in an MBA program. Maybe you'd attend an executive-education course. Maybe you'd take a class to learn how to operate a new piece of software or to improve your presentation skills.
Classrooms kill most learning before it can happen.
Kimberly-Clark Corp. He wanted to try his luck on the amateur golf circuit. I'm a self-taught graphic designer. I knew that if I could get proffcient enough and professional enough, my work would eventually find a market. Core Curriculum Krall started by designing business cards, site plans, and brochures for small companies, churches, apartment complexes, and self-storage facilities near his home in Austin, Texas. To get up to speed, he needed to go to school.