Now that all industries, companies, and business models have changed a lot, the ability to learn new things quickly becomes a key factor in success. In this article, Xiaobian shares several points to help you quickly improve your learning ability.
取得职业成功是一个渐进的过程,你需要不断提升和发展自己的技能组合与能力,帮助你应对越来越重大的岗位职责,同时在你的位置上发挥你的价值。其中的基础能力莫过于学习能力,你学得越快,你获得新机会的速度就越快。影响你学习能力的因素有很多,以下几个都具有很好的实际帮助效果。
Achieving career success is a gradual process, and you need to constantly upgrade and develop your skills and abilities to help you cope with increasingly important job responsibilities and to make use of your value in your position. The basic ability is the ability to learn. The faster you learn, the faster you get new opportunities. There are many factors that affect your learning ability. The following are good practical help effects.
视自己为学生
Regard yourself as a student
曾有一名营销执行官这么形容自己:“尽管在现在这个职业阶段,我已经是一名导师了,但是我仍然把自己当做一名学生。我还有许多事情要学。当你这样想,你就不会自满于你觉得你知道的东西,从而更加注意你还要继续学些什么。”
One marketing executive once described himself as: "Although I am a mentor at this stage of my career, I still consider myself as a student first. I still have a lot of things to learn. When you think that way, you won't be complacent with what you think you know and pay more attention to what you still have to learn.
脚踏实地的态度能让你不断学习成长,这一点对于每个人来说都很重要,特别当你处在职业发展的起步阶段,你会遇到各种各样的情况。在我们公司,新职员必须加快速度做出贡献。特别是当他们完全是职场新人时,在他们新入职的时候,我会为他们提供几个有关个人和职业发展的建议。
It's important for everyone that you keep learning and growing with a down-to-earth attitude, especially when you're at the beginning of your career. In our company, new staff must speed up their contribution. Especially when they are completely new to the workplace, when they are new to the job, I will give them a few personal and career development advice.
态度谦卑
Humility
个人来说,我觉得把时间花在评价自己有多么上没有什么意义。这样的思考对你自己究竟会有什么好处?在你花了大把时间想自己有多么,多么成功,当别人告诉你并不是这样的时候你会相当的失落。我根本不会浪费时间考虑我的或者我完成的工作有多漂亮,我会把时间花在思考我怎样能把事情做得更好,要更加地完成工作我还需要做什么。
Personally, I think it's meaningless to spend time on how excellent you are. What good is this thinking for you? You spend a lot of time thinking about how good you are and how successful you are, and you're pretty disappointed when someone tells you it's not. I don't waste time thinking about how good I am or how beautiful my work is. I spend time thinking about how I can do things better and what I need to do to do better.
别人怎么评价我基本不会影响我对自己的评价。更重要的事自己要区别什么是一个好的工作什么不是,并且确认自己究竟在一个怎样的工作环境。
How others evaluate me basically does not affect my evaluation of myself. The most important thing is to distinguish what is a good job from what is not, and to identify what kind of work environment you are in.
自豪感 vs 自满
Pride vs complacency
成功人士充满了自豪感。对于我自己来说,我对我的家庭背景以及我的出身感到自豪。但是自满又是另外一回事,而且会有相当大负面影响。自满的人通常不大能听进别人的批评,他们充满了防御性,对于别人对他们的评价又过度敏感。结果他们不会是一个好的听众,也不能很好地观察别人。太过于骄傲,甚是自负,会让原本聪明的人无法充分发挥出应有的才智,因为自负会妨碍他们的学习能力,阻碍他们寻求建议帮助,并且识别他们的错误。因此,必须要区分自豪感与自负,然后分析你自己在哪种程度上属于哪一种。
Successful people are full of pride. For myself, I am proud of my family background and my Chinese origin. But complacency is another matter, and it will have a considerable negative impact. Complacent people are usually less likely to listen to other people's criticism. They are defensive and overly sensitive to what others think of them. As a result, they will not be a good listener, nor can they be very good at observing others. Too much pride, or even conceit, prevents smart people from using their talents to the full, because conceit interferes with their ability to learn, prevents them from seeking advice and help, and identifies their mistakes. So you have to distinguish between pride and conceit, and then analyze to what extent you belong.
从管理角度来说,更难管理的雇员莫过于自负的人,特别是当他们不明白自己不懂的是什么的时候。他们不知道自己的缺点,对于很多东西也缺乏深入的思考。通常而言,他们不知道他们需要做什么来自我提高。他们的顽固使得他们很难接受你教授他们的东西。作为经理,你处理和这类人相关的事情的时间和经理通常也十分有限。
From a management point of view, the hardest employees to manage are those who are conceited, especially when they don't understand what they don't know. They do not know their own shortcomings, and do not think deeply about many things. Usually, they don't know what they need to do from my improvement. Their stubbornness makes it hard for them to accept what you teach them. As a manager, the time and manager you deal with such people are usually very limited.
自我批评
Self-criticism
取得高度成就的人通常对于自己有着更严苛的批评。与之类似,你也需要给予自己更严厉的评价。对于我而言,无论别人怎么说我,我其实都已经对自己说过类似的话。我觉得应该没有人比我对自己更严苛。这样,我就能更好地吸取来自的外界的评价,而又不反应过激。如果你自己能接受,这样的做法对于提升你的绩效很有帮助。
People who achieve high achievers usually have the most critical criticism of themselves. Similarly, you need to give yourself the harshest appraisal. For me, no matter what others say about me, I have already said something similar to myself. I think no one should be more severe than me. In this way, I can better learn from the outside world and not overreact. If you can accept it, it will help you to improve your performance.