Learning to unlearn as an essential leadership skill
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Ever since you were born, you've been programmed to learn, to keep learning for the rest of your physical life. So then, why should you learn to “unlearn?” In this digital age, where there's an increase in speed of life and development, where we're stepping into hybrid environments, connected through screens, where change is a constant. We tend to forget to just breath for a second and look around. Instead we try to keep up.

Why should you think about unlearning now?
As a leader, you require to be analytical, flexible and organised. You’re there to lead into the uncertainty of the future. A key to succes is: comfort in unknown discomfort. How? By unlearning old habits and patterns that hold back, to create new values and beliefs to achieve new successes with your teams.

What will unlearning help me with?
"Unlearning" and "learning" are key skills to have in leadership. It helps you process information in a multi-faceted way. Making connections between action/reaction/people/topics/conflicts. You'll learn how to be flexible in your decision making as well as the strength of diversity in thought within your organisation. To navigate into the unknown - one of the biggest challenges hybrid working and agility poses on businesses.

What does “unlearning" have to do with leading into the future?
History shows that it repeats itself frequently. This also applies to companies. To continuously learn from past successes, failures and attempts to change - you, need to work with what's currently there with data that’s available, to find new ways. To do that, you need to be and think relaxed in any circumstance, letting go of rules and procedures, letting go of limiting beliefs like ‘it’s not good enough’ or ‘what would they think.’ In short: you need to unlearn to identify what methods and systems are necessary for your teams and make room for new perspectives to bring to work to achieve business results.

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