WorkLore

We talk about climbing the career ladder. But what it we thought of our careers more like a climbing wall? 

Ladders are fixed in one direction. The climbing wall lets the climber choose their own paths, and it’s not always straight up in one direction. 

The Productivity Project in Learning City Calgary is rethinking what we envision learning and career development to be. With most of us changing careers multiple times in our working life, and the go-to-university-then-work-in-that-field-till-retirement becoming unworkable, we also need to think about how we upskill and reskill along the way. 

“Open learning resembles a dynamic climbing wall, where learners are empowered to explore infinite learning pathways. The result is a far more inclusive and agile lifelong learning system, designed to drive innovation through collaboration and competition.” Link

Designed to drive innovation. 

So not just good for learners and earners, but also for the organizations that they work for. 

Rethinking the school-work-workplace learning dynamic has the potential to move us from the learning and working model of the industrial revolution into the digital age of information and innovation.