Your Learning Needs

Shape your future, design your growth

Section I: Introduction 

Purpose and aims of the Growth Drivers Self-Evaluation

This self-assessment aims to enable you to assess the current gaps in your learning compared to your future learning needs.

With humanity facing the combined challenges of generating post-covid recovery, the climate emergency, the challenge of AI automation, and prevailing social inequality, most of us will face significant challenges in adapting to an uncertain and volatile future.

The analysis is focused on your ability to develop in any of the six transformational roles that can be reasonably predicted (according to research*) to remain critical to society, irrespective of whatever happens in future:

■ Leadership

■ Innovation

■ Entrepreneurship

■ Creativity

■ Coaching

■ Sustainability

As we move into a new age of automation, these roles require human intelligence that cannot be replaced by machines. These roles will become increasingly important in navigating our way through other existential challenges. In the past, we've relied on only a few specialised people in these roles. In future, all of us will need to develop capabilities in these six fields, to some degree. They are, therefore, a useful benchmark to reference our learning needs, now and in the future.

Completion guidelines

Examples

You might be a professional coach able to demonstrate highly developed listening skills in a coaching context, but you might be less experienced at using listening skills in a leadership role; or as a peer in an innovation breakthrough team. 

Section II: Your details

Section III: 21 Growth Drivers Questionnaire

1. Listening

Listening refers to the active and attentive process of comprehending the layers of content, patterns, feelings, imagery, and meanings behind what someone is saying. It goes beyond merely hearing the words and requires the ability to understand the speaker's context and nuances. Effective listening involves the capacity to pick up on differences and similarities between cultures, ethnicities, genders, and social backgrounds. It involves being present and fully engaged, focused on the speaker's message and interpreting it reflexively in the moment. This often prompts the listener to ask clarifying questions to ensure a thorough understanding. In the future, listening will become increasingly important as the world becomes more interconnected and diverse.

2. Questioning

Questioning refers to the active process of exploring ideas, concepts, and perspectives to uncover needs, evaluate feasibility, identify shared opportunities, stimulate curiosity and imagination, and prompt new ways of looking at things. Effective questioning supports goal-setting and action planning, encourages self-reflection, and raises awareness about emotions, intuitions, and shared experiences. It can also prompt questioning about self-care, daily habits, time allocation, environmental impact, and social responsibility. By exploring connections between sustainability and other issues, questioning can facilitate critical thinking and creative problem-solving. In summary, questioning involves a deliberate and intentional inquiry that can lead to deeper understanding, new insights, and transformative learning experiences.

3. Empathy

4. Design Thinking 

5. Resolve

6. Agency

7. Vulnerability

8. Allyship

9. Adaptability

10. Curiosity

11. Reasoning

12. Agility

13. Social intelligence

14. Coaching

15. Self-learning

16. Focus

17. Integrity

18. Compassion

19. Collaborative

20. Purposeful

21. Ecologically-intelligent