Being ready to learn new skills

To get the most out of learning something new and for our learning to have a successful outcome, we need to feel ready to learn. This may involve:

• understanding how we learn and getting better at it
• feeling able and confident to learn new things
• understanding how what we will learn will give us satisfaction or help us reach our goals

Online activities
Feeling able and confident to learn new things

Visualisation
Learning styles questionnaire
Quality Circle Time - Reducing workplace stress with Quality Circle Time.
Stress buster
Stress workshop
I should be so lucky

Understanding how we learn and getting better at it

Remember, remember
Remembering Whatshername - Remembering Whatshername explores a number of tools to enableyou to remember people’s names more effectively
Remembering Whatshername - presentation - This handout accompanies 'Remembering Whatshername'
Bitesize Learning
I'll do it tomorrow!

Understanding how what we will learn will give us satisfaction or help us reach our goals

Individual Learning Plan - A plan to help set personal targets and record achievements
Learning Diary - This Learning Diary has been created to help you become more conscious of your experiential learning during one working week so that you can manage it more effectively

Other ways to learn

Flexible Learning
Hobby sharing
Book swaps
Job swaps - Worksheet on how to plan a job swap.
Learning chain

Taking the learning further

For advice on addressing literacy and numeracy issues in the workplace, to find out about Government support for training,or to arrange a visit from a skills broker, call 08000 15 55 45 or visit www.traintogain.gov.uk.

Further links

www.bbc.co.uk/learning/readytolearn/
www.nothingcanstopyou.co.uk/
www.mindtools.com/