Sharpen Your Skills: Adding To Your Business Toolkit Rachel Roberts knew the answer to the question, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Practice, practice, practice. To earn her first degree in flute performance, she spent hours and hours every day with her instrument, repeating each measure again and again. And again. Sadly, all of that practice never made Rachel perfect, and she could not snag one of those coveted but extremely scarce seats with a major orchestra. Unwilling to abandon her passion for music, she decided to plunge into the world orchestra management. Within a year, she had discovered a new passion and a surprising talent for arts administration. She went on to earn a master’s degree in organizational leadership and rose in her profession to a position as head of the entrepreneurial musicianship program at the Northeast Conservatory of Music. Always eager to gain more and more business savvy, Rachel embraced the MOOC movement with gusto, seeking out business courses that offered an opportunity to learn something new. With a performance career beyond her skill level, she knew she needed to add new tools to her skill set. Chapter 4 reveals the power of putting new tools to work. Whether you spend the day building rockets, performing brain surgery, landscaping gardens, or running a clam shack, continued success requires that you keep expanding your capabilities. And you must use them or lose them. That means maintaining an active, rather than passive, approach to learning. You will learn: Why you should focus on applying what you learn. Which specific new skills will propel your forward. How to create an active learning laboratory. Chapter 5
Sharpen Your Skills: Adding To Your Business Toolkit Rachel Roberts knew the answer to the question, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Practice, practice, practice. To earn her first degree in flute performance, she spent hours and hours every day with her instrument, repeating each measure again and again. And again. Sadly, all of that practice never made Rachel perfect, and she could not snag one of those coveted but extremely scarce seats with a major orchestra. Unwilling to abandon her passion for music, she decided to plunge into the world orchestra management. Within a year, she had discovered a new passion and a surprising talent for arts administration. She went on to earn a master’s degree in organizational leadership and rose in her profession to a position as head of the entrepreneurial musicianship program at the Northeast Conservatory of Music. Always eager to gain more and more business savvy, Rachel embraced the MOOC movement with gusto, seeking out business courses that offered an opportunity to learn something new. With a performance career beyond her skill level, she knew she needed to add new tools to her skill set. Chapter 4 reveals the power of putting new tools to work. Whether you spend the day building rockets, performing brain surgery, landscaping gardens, or running a clam shack, continued success requires that you keep expanding your capabilities. And you must use them or lose them. That means maintaining an active, rather than passive, approach to learning. You will learn: Why you should focus on applying what you learn. Which specific new skills will propel your forward. How to create an active learning laboratory. Chapter 5
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