With Guest: Tames Rietdijk, founder and former CEO at Business Forensics
Check in Question:
- Did you ever play hooky or cut class in school?
Big Ideas:
- Learning as a way of life
- Balance between “living the life of my knowledge, living of the knowledge of life”
- Would lose perspective if I focused my learning on only one area
- Living of the knowledge of life is learning from the signs and your interpretation
- Sometimes your environment doesn’t always allow you to transform you into who you want to be
- Not using the knowledge of the past to inform the future
- Learning through experiences and reflection
- Putting myself out of my comfort zone to apply what I am learning from books
- The range of people’s opinions from failure to success
- Learning from the feedback of others that is the opposite of the feedback you would give yourself
- The importance of looking at your drivers (sometimes they are hidden)
- The habit of relearning
- The importance of seeing the business world from the inside, rather than studying it from the outside
- Letting go of people who may be super productive, but who give feedback in a critical manner
- The power of silence
- The sense of reassurance and certainty that comes with data and numbers
- Supporting people to learn and understanding that people’s experience and maturity shifts how they learn
- The difference between mentoring and coaching and how to apply them with those you lead
- A sense of autonomy matters
- Critical and conscious thinking and the importance of being mindful of your own assumptions
- Recognizing your own assumptions and beliefs, so that you based your decisions on facts
- The older you get, the more knowledge you gain, and the more experiences you have, yet the more stuck you are in your assumptions.
- Thinking your assumptions are the truth makes it harder to step back from them
- Experiencing the knowledge so that you internalize your learning more
- The training triangle between participants, trainer, and knowledge
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