Learning Radar

生而知之者，上也；學而知之者，次也；困而學之，又其次也；困而不學，民斯為下矣 - 孔子

Growth is not knowledge acquisition. Learning starts with curiousity, whether reading books and/or articles, bouncing ideas with peers. Mastery involves trying and getting feedback through failures and challenges. I have compiled a learning radar to map and track professional mastery. The topics are categorised in competency areas and lifecycle:

• Professional Competency Areas
  • Corporate Citizenship is taking responsibility for contributing to industry and company culture by actions, living out professional values, demonstrating leadership and modeling social responsibility.
  • Role Excellence is the building block of job essentials. Growing and expanding self role to take on new experience and greater responsibilities, accountabilities and complexity for impact.
  • Technical Excellence is the technical abilities to meet the role requirements, a combination of technical strategy, knowledge and skills, and application in conversations, situations and scenarios.
  • Business Acumen is the keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Learning Lifecycle Stages
  • Investing - feel strongly that the industry should be adopting these items, and apply them when appropriate in engagements.
  • Emerging - researching and learning with the view to invest and build them up, adopt in engagements that can handle the risk.
  • Evaluating - assessing and exploring to attest them against development roadmap, experimenting with internal engagements.
  • Archiving - retiring time-proven and/or low-valued items, and pivot to newer things.