Getting Strategic About Growing Your Knowledge

Here’s the trap we fall into as L&D professionals: we try to learn everything.

New authoring tool? Better learn it. Someone mentions personalized learning? Better research it. AI drops a new feature? Add it to the list. Meanwhile, we’re stretched thin across a dozen surface-level skills with no real depth in anything.

Are we mistaking exposure for expertise? Are we confuse being aware of something with actually knowing it? It’s no wonder we feel like we’re scrambling to keep up.

The Breadth Trap

The L&D field is massive. Instructional design, learning tech, adult learning theory, change management, project management, data analysis, facilitation, consulting skills – the list never ends. And every month, something new gets added.

When you try to learn it all, you end up:

• Knowing a little about everything but not enough about anything
• Feeling like an imposter because your knowledge is always surface-level
• Unable to articulate what you’re actually good at
• Overwhelmed by how much you still don’t know

Let’s Get Strategic

We’ll discuss how to choose what’s worth going deep on based on your goals and where you want your career to go. How to resist the pressure to learn everything. What depth actually looks like versus just scratching the surface. And how to build expertise that positions you for the next step.

You’ve built the habit of learning – now let’s make sure you’re focusing that habit on building depth in areas that actually matter to your career.

Can’t be there live? We’ve got your back! 

Simply by registering to attend the coffee chat, you will receive the following:

✅ Follow-up email with resources and extra goodies

✅ Copy of the video recording

✅ Copy of the chatbox transcription

✅ Copy of the full session transcript and summary