Self-Knowledge

In The Expertise Economy, self-knowledge is the foundation employees draw on to build a personalized learning or skill plan. Palmer and Blake argue that “once employees have a good sense of what skills they want to focus on, they can create a personalized learning or skill plan based on self-knowledge and their learning and career goals” — distinct from a top-down development plan tied to a performance review, which “almost seems punitive.” The point is motivational: when learning starts from the employee’s own sense of where they stand and where they want to go, it becomes “an inspiring career vision” rather than a corrective. It sits in the book’s web of concepts around measuring and directing capability — alongside the Skills Quotient and Self-Directed Learning.

Where this appears

• The Expertise Economy — self-knowledge as the basis for an employee-driven, personalized learning plan, contrasted with punitive performance-review development plans.