I was reminded recently of a quote by John F Kennedy:
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other"
As a leader and a trainer, you can see why I would appreciate this one!
I fully believe that as a leader my job is not just to develop my team, but also to recognise the potential in them, leverage their existing talents, to encourage them to see themselves for who they are and give them the confidence they need to become the people that they can be.
I also think that no matter how much we learn there is still infinitely more that we could learn, but also because when I train someone I want to inspire them to push the boundary of the subject, to learn more than I could ever teach them.
Then I was reminded of another quote, this time by Socrates:
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel
Since my post a few weeks back on Leadership Quotes, I have received a few requests for quotes on training, development and learning so here goes...
Hope you find them as inspiring as I do! As usual, the presentation is available for download on my blog: http://wp.me/p37qal-nK
8. Practice is the hardest part of
learning, and training is the essence
of transformation
9. The essence of training is to
allow error without
consequence
10. If you want to teach people a new way of
thinking, don't bother trying to teach them
Instead, give
them a tool,
the use of
which will
lead to new
ways of
thinking
13. You cannot teach a
man anything, you can
only help him find it
within himself
14. True teachers are
those who use
themselves as
bridges over which
they invite their
students to cross;
then, having
facilitated their
crossing, joyfully
collapse,
encouraging
them to
create
their own
15. We never know which lives we
influence, or when, or why
16. We cannot hold a torch to
light another's path without
brightening our own
17. I'm not a teacher: only a
fellow traveller of whom you
asked the way. I pointed
ahead - ahead of myself as
well as you
28. Wisdom is not a product of
schooling but of the lifelong
attempt to acquire it
29. A man, though
wise, should never
be ashamed of
learning more,
and must unbend
his mind
30. ...to learn and not to do is really not
to learn. To know and not to do is
really not to know
31. There are three kinds
of men. The ones
that learn by readin’.
The few who learn
by observation.
The rest of them
have to pee on the
electric fence for
themselves