Leader and Coach finds purpose in Learning Agility | The Power of Learning with Melissa Janis

Learning agility is one of the top leadership skills required to succeed today. And yet, where are leaders being taught the skills of learning, relearning, and adapting to changing environments? 

Melissa Janis learned early on about her superhero power, the power of learning, and how it helped her open doors to new opportunities and how to influence and impact others.

Melissa learned early on that learning was an outcome of persistence and time, and she has spent her career learning and relearning the importance of learning agility for herself and for the leaders she grows, mentors, and coaches.

In this episode, Melissa answers the following questions:
 - How can I learn new skills as a manager?
- What does learning agility mean?
- What training should new managers have?
- Why does training fail for new managers?

My favorite quote from the episode: “To act in a crisis as if you’ve been there before? What a great thing that is. And the way you can get there is being able to learn really, really quickly.”

What I know to be true about the episode: Melissa’s early determination to influence and impact her teachers to demonstrate through persistence and hard work, that she could create new opportunities for herself. It’s those early experiences that led her to experiencing learning agility as a key to success in a changing and challenging world.

What I learned from the episode: The emphasis on relearning and the role that curiosity plays in not only learning something for the first time, but applying that same level of curiosity to the things we perceive to be true to validate that they are still true, or learn that they are no longer true.

Resources mentioned in this episode:
 
 “Learning Agility: The Key to Leader Potential" by David Hoff and Warner Burke https://www.abebooks.com/9780692995365/Learning-Agility-Key-Leader-Potential-0692995366/plp

Melissa Janis Consulting: https://www.melissajanis.com/ 
 
Music by Ian Kastner

"What Do You Know To Be True?" is a series of conversations where I speak with interesting people about their special talent or superhero power and the meaningful impact it has on others. The intention is to learn more about their experience with their superhero power, so that we can learn something about the special talent in each of us which allows us to connect more deeply with our purpose. 

For more information about the podcast or to check out more episodes, go to: https://whatdoyouknowtobetrue.com/ 

"What Do You Know To Be True?" is hosted by Roger Kastner, is a production of Three Blue Pens, and is recorded on the ancestral lands of the Duwamish and Suquamish people. To discover the ancestral lands of the indigenous people whose land you may be on, go to: https://native-land.ca/