Continuous learning: keep up-to-date with professional information

 07/10/2017
By Dr. Alin Posteucă

Lifelong learning: keep up-to-date with professional information

Lifelong learning, as an individual stake, becomes an ever-increasing need. Based on an individual plan, learning aims both at achieving the current work and the work that we want or need to do in the future. Passive involvement (reading, listening, analyzing schemes and pictures, watching movies, watching demonstrations, etc.) and active (participating in demonstrations with questions and answers, public presentations, making simulations, making real changes in processes, etc. .) in learning involves choosing the most appropriate learning method at a given time.

In this context, what are the learning methods currently used to keep up-to-date with professional information:
1) individual learning after work (assignmments; internet);
2) books and articles;
3) coaching and mentoring;
4) training face to face with recognized experts;
5) workshops and one-the-job training;
6) e-learning (webinars, podcasts, games);
7) additional qualifications (university studies, masters, doctorates, etc.);
8) networking (professional associations; business clubs; conferences; LinkedIn/Facebook);
9) work in committees/ panels (transfer of interdepartmental information within the company);
10) research by surveys?

Please put the above learning methods in order, depending on what you are currently using (for example: 7, 6, 9, …, in this example, 7 being the most commonly used method).

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Strategic productivity and profitability consultant and researcher, Alin Posteucă, Ph.D., Ph.D. is transforming the way companies approach their strategic transformation. With over 20 years of management consulting experience, Posteucă has created effective concepts such as Strategic Kaizen, Takt Profit, KAIZENshiro Budgets and Costing. His research on production flow has led to innovative breakthroughs in strategic and operational productivity improvement.

Posteucă's investigation into typologies of losses and waste has identified feasible improvements that can achieve the ideal state of production flow, known as Synchronous Profitable Operations (SPO). His Takt Profit model allows the optimization of production planning, transforming profit per minute into objectives for strategic improvements achieved through Strategic Kaizen projects.

Posteucă's research has led to increased effectiveness in strategic improvements and has set the stage for future productivity in the world of manufacturing technology. He is laureate of the Romanian Academy of the "Traian Vuia" Prize, the highest scientific prize in Romania.