Learning at Work Week is a unique annual event to build learning cultures at work. Each year the week aims to shine a spotlight on the importance and benefits of continual learning and development. During Learning at Work Week 2023 QHS celebrated the value and importance of all types of learning in work and life. See QHS's quote about this year's event on the Learning At Work Week website (You have to scroll down a fair way until you find our QHS logo to view our quotation)
The Learning at Work Week 2023 theme is “Create the Future”. The week focused on deepening our understanding, knowledge and engagement in lifelong and continual learning by exploring:
a) Why it’s important to be lifelong learners and support lifelong learning
b) How we can initiate and support lifelong learning as individuals and in our work communities
c) The opportunities and benefits that lifelong learning offers for work and life
It is widely known that lifelong learning helps us become more confident, curious, purposeful and skilled. It enriches us, bringing joy, connection and understanding of the world, enhancing each persons’ well-being. All organisations have a wealth of understanding, skills, knowledge and experience that colleagues have developed at work and in life. They may span languages, creative arts, science, history, management, finance, technology and more.
According to the Campaign for Learning’s website “Sharing our ‘hidden powers’ amplifies skills and knowledge at work, and builds stronger work communities, connecting colleagues and different parts of the business. It can help people reflect on their existing strengths and talents and feel valued for these. It can promote ideas, conversations, and lead to innovation.”
Here in England we are experiencing significant changes in our life and work, driven by global challenges such as climate change, longer-term developments including automation, plus the on-going effects of the War in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic. Our lives are becoming more and more digital, and for some more remote, requiring new ways to work, learn and connect. There is a new sense of the importance of refreshing our skills as the world of work changes and the need to support and maintain mental, physical and financial well-being.
QHS recognises the benefits of bringing employees from different parts of the business together, along with partner organisations, to learn from each other, as well as drawing on our employees’ own knowledge, passions and interests to create engaging activities and wider sharing and collaboration in the workplace in 2023 and in all future years too.