Happy Halloween! In going through the PayScale website, I found this article that I found particularly interesting and I wanted to share it with you. It is titled "Creating a Culture of Learning". So grab a pumpkin spiced latte and read on....
Introduction:
Of late, there's been an ongoing debate in the scientific community as to whether is intelligence is fixed or changeable. If intelligence is fixed, then each person's measure is doled out in the womb, and no amount of information acquisition can increase someone intelligence quotient, or IQ.
But if intelligence is changeable, then people can actually get smarter over time. And indeed, this seems to be what the evidence shows; intelligence is far more fluid than we've previously been led to imagine.
In one study, for example, researchers tested the IQ of 33 healthy adolescents aged 12 to 16 and then tested it again 3 to 4 years later. At the second testing, 33 percent of participants showed a change in their total IQ score.
What does this have to do with your workplace, you ask?
Simple! Knowing that intelligence is changeable makes the benefits of learning all the more salient. And, in fact, companies that encourage and value learning are healthier, more stable, and smarter than those that don't. As a result they perform better.
Ray Stata, former CEO of Analog Devices, a semiconductor company, is quoted as saying "The rate at which organizations and individuals learn may well become the only sustainable competitive advantage."
Commitment to Learning - It's Just Smart
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