FEATURE
LEARNABILITY
MOST ESSENTIAL SKILL FOR
FUTURE-READY LEADERS
AND WORKFORCE
Vikas Jain
Author
Founder of Adhyan
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n today’s fast-changing world, development of
the human capital in any organization is getting
more and more attention. This is due to the reason
that the shelf life of skills is getting shorter at a very
fast pace. A decade ago, the shelf life of skills used to
be in the order of 10-15 years; now it has reduced to
2-3 years. And with further developments, it is going
even shorter than that. Hence constantly upgrading
the skills and knowledge of leaders and workforce are
the only options for survival in today’s world. in the fast-changing landscape, their future-ready
workforce needs to have better “Learnability” to learn
skills faster and effi ciently.
“Learnability” has emerged as an essential
factor to effi ciently acquire any other skill. In simple
words, Learnability is the individual’s ability to
learn i.e. acquire a new skill/knowledge effi ciently.
L&D department in various organizations has
started realizing the importance of “Learnability”
in the future workforce. Organizations are also
making changes to their hiring process to assess the
“Learnability” of the new hire, as they are aware that We can nurture “Learnability” by creating
an environment to inspire learning. During my
interviews with world leaders, for my book “The
Secret Behind Super Achievers: Self Education”, it
is clearly visible that Leaders create an environment
and habits which “inspire learning”. At Adhyan
World, we are on a mission of building an ecosystem
to provide a conducive environment to nurture
“Learnability”. P & M
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“Learnability” is playing even a more critical
role in the development of future-ready leaders.
For leaders, changes are even faster and they are
supposed to acquire a signifi cant understanding of
these new skills with more precision to compete with
competition and avoid any mistake.