Willing and Able to Learn

Value Description Exercise

This is an exercise from the page Four Steps to Creating Principles. If you have come here without having read that page first, it might make more sense for you to visit there before reading the rest of this page.

Describe what it means to you

• Open mind, wanting to improve
• People motivated to improve
• People who can be educated and able to apply knowledge
• Showing initiative, wanting to learn
• Eager to learn and have mental capacity to learn
• Being flexible, encapsulates being willing and able
• We recognise that people do not always need to have the exact skill set
• Learning is a continuous journey that has no end, training has a finite goal, "as a result of the training you will be able to do something that you couldn't previously do"
• We continuously evolving and so too do our people

What are the Behaviors that you would expect illustrate this Value?

• Questioning
• Pursue learning opportunities
• Show initiative
• People understand the tangible benefit from going to off-the-job learning opportunities
• Learning is needs based - either interested in or need to learn - because they are relevant
• Learning is the way of life, it happens every single day, it is not a special event
• People who are keen to learn new skills
• Enthusiastic to learn
• Taking on new tasks, expand what you can do

What Results will follow by people having/using this Value

• Multi-skilling
• Flexible workforce
• Skilled people
• Able to perform their roles, accept change and enjoy the variation in work
• Reduced downtime, reduced cost
• Better quality of profit
• Greater customer satisfaction