How to learn at work when there’s no time for learning
Modern Mentor
Macmillan Holdings, LLC
4.3 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learning and development at work are essential - for expanding our skills, for being more innovative, and for keeping us engaged. But also, there’s so much work on our plates it can feel impossible to find the time for learning. So let’s talk about some ways to bake it right on into the work itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, where we help leaders design work to create performance flywheels so that results, wellness, and engagement all thrive together. |
| 0:31.2 | And if you're a leader of a team wishing that you could get more from and do more for your team, you're in luck. I will be hosting a |
| 0:39.4 | complimentary roundtable on this very topic on September 17th, 2025 at 1 p.m. Eastern. You can learn more |
| 0:46.6 | and register for free at leadabovenoise.com slash work design. And now on to today's episode. |
| 0:57.9 | Okay, so by now you know that I run workshops and group coaching programs for leaders who want to explore how to rework how the work gets done. |
| 1:04.1 | You know, so the results and the humanity stuff all happens together. And today I want to focus on |
| 1:10.2 | learning and development specifically. |
| 1:12.7 | A client reached out recently to say, hey, we keep getting dinged on our employee engagement |
| 1:18.5 | survey on learning and development. It is our biggest gap. The thing that our teams are most |
| 1:24.1 | dissatisfied with, we know we need to invest in their engagement, but we are under |
| 1:28.5 | so much pressure to just drive results right now. We don't know where to squeeze learning in. |
| 1:34.2 | We need to get creative. So they said, can you work with some of our leaders to help them help |
| 1:39.8 | their teams experience more learning, but without adding more stuff into the system. And so I have been running |
| 1:46.6 | some coaching cohorts within this organization. And together with their teammates and leadership, |
| 1:51.5 | we have chatted a ton about what really qualifies as learning. We have expanded the definition |
| 1:57.7 | of learning and we've explored ways to build it into rather than bolt it |
| 2:01.7 | onto their work. And today, I would love to share five of my favorite strategies that I have |
| 2:08.0 | watched this organization's leaders literally discover, implement, and expand upon all within the |
| 2:14.0 | three-month window of our coaching program together. So here we go. |
| 2:19.3 | The first one is bring a challenge to a naive expert. |
| 2:23.3 | One leader in the program noticed that his team was kind of running on autopilot. |
| 2:28.3 | They were recycling old playbooks, while their competition and even some of their internal teams |
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