Understanding and Investing in Your Learner Talent -- Season 4

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the Gallup Strengths Center: http://on.gallup.com/1l04XVZ.

Gallup's Theme Thursday is a live Webcast that targets strengths
coaches and enthusiasts to provide a deeper context behind the
language of strengths by talking in-depth about each of the 34
Clifton StrengthsFinder themes.

On this Theme Thursday Season Four webcast, Jim Collison, Gallup's
Director of Talent Sourcing, and Maika Leibbrandt, Senior Workplace
Consultant, talk about Learner.

You love to learn. The subject matter that interests you most will
be determined by your other themes and experiences, but whatever
the subject, you will always be drawn to the process of learning.
The process, more than the content or the result, is especially
exciting for you. You are energized by the steady and deliberate
journey from ignorance to competence. The thrill of the first few
facts, the early efforts to recite or practice what you have
learned, the growing confidence of a skill mastered—this is the
process that entices you. Your excitement leads you to engage in
adult learning experiences—yoga or piano lessons or graduate
classes. It enables you to thrive in dynamic work environments
where you are asked to take on short project assignments and are
expected to learn a lot about the new subject matter in a short
period of time and then move on to the next one. This Learner theme
does not necessarily mean that you seek to become the subject
matter expert, or that you are striving for the respect that
accompanies a professional or academic credential. The outcome of
the learning is less significant than the “getting there.”