Strategic Importance of Lifelong Learning and Role of Training and Development

This paper discusses the strategic importance and practical benefits of lifelong learning and the role of training and development in building the knowledge and skills of adult learners. It explores how lifelong learning enhances personality, social inclusion, and employability.

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This paper is based on the topic of “strategic importance, and practical benefits, of lifelong
learning and the role of training and development in building the knowledge, skills and
capability of adult learners”.
Lifelong learning is the on-going, voluntary and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for
either personal or professional reasons. It is not only enhances the personality, skills, active
citizenship, and social inclusion but also enhances the self-sustainability with the
competitiveness and employability (Osborne, 2018).
Lifelong learning is important for the many factors in order to achieve the success in the life.
It helps to increases the confidence and adaptability that is necessary for the personal
development of a person. Each and every person required to develop their skills to grab the
new opportunity to success in their career. Personality development helps to develop a
positive attitude in every situation of life. It is a fact that the personality of a person can be
developed due to increasing confidence. Lifelong learning helps to develop the confidence
and adaptability due to increasing knowledge of an individual (Illeris, 2018).
The importance of lifelong learning is social awareness and perspective. Lifelong learning
increases the social awareness of an individual. It is essential to interact with others, in order
to enhance the personal skills that positively impact on the emotional intelligence and bring
the greater happiness and success. Interaction with the others helps in the personal and
professional areas. Lifelong learning is not all about the skills and development but it is also
enhances the skills of social inclusion. It is important for an individual to enhance the skills
of social inclusion in order to interact with the others. Lifelong learning is the learning of
social inclusion that is why; lifelong learning is important for social interaction (Horrigan,
2016).

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Life enrichment and improved health are the other point which states the importance of
lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is also the part of self-motivation and human flourishing.
This learning increases the curiosity of learning the different skills in order to enhance the
knowledge. Enhancing knowledge and personality development is the technique of self-
motivation that helps to achieve the multi-dimensional goal of life. It is fact that the self-
motivated mind helps to prevent themselves from the diseases of memory loss with the age
related (Career Vision, 2018). Self-motivation is also a part of personality development that
is necessary to develop the good career path. It is a fact that the demand and wish list of an
individual is never finished that is why; a person put the efforts to attain the goal and wishes.
Self-motivation helps to attain the multi-dimensional goal of life and that is beneficial for an
individual.
There are some practical benefits that help an individual to attain the success in the personal
as well as the professional life. There are some professional people continue their learning
with the jobs in order to get the promotions and higher position in the other organisation. It is
observed that 39% of professional learner continues their education with their work to grab
the good opportunity (Meridian, 2018). Enhancing knowledge motivate the person to attain
its all objectives and goal of life.
As discussed above, the lifelong learning also protect from diseases in related to memory.
Lifelong learning also helps to enhance the skills of time management due to which the other
issues related to health is also prevented. Healthy body helps to attain the goal easily in the
real life. There are many people get the promotion due to their full attendance in their rules
and responsibility (Cheary, 2018). It has been seen that the organisation also offers the
responsibilities to those person who are physically and mentally fit. Getting promotion for
high attendance is a real life example of benefit of lifelong learning.

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Licensing and certification is the another practical benefit which is get by the person.
Learning new things without any break helps to enhance the skills to grab the many
certificates. Licensing and certification is necessary to keeping some jobs and growing in the
career. The government provides the licenses and certification to people for some specific
jobs. It is observed that the 57% of professional engaged in learning the activities in the last
year in the many areas of achieving and maintaining the licenses and certification.
Training and development is a program of learning the new skills under any expert and
trainee. It is beneficial for an individual to learn the complex things in an easy way with the
help of experts. There are many skills enhancing in the process of lifelong learning but
trainers are required to learn the new things in order to provide the instructions and
information. It is beneficial to improve the performance and efficiency of an individual. It
helps to build the knowledge and capabilities of adults by providing the instruction in the
programs (Dhar, 2015).
In the training and development program, there are many tools and techniques are used to
provide the information to people. The instruction provided by the trainee to the adults helps
them to learn the new things. Learning the new things with the different techniques and tools
enhance the knowledge of the adults. Learning the new things in the easy way helps the
learners to enhance the skills (Alasadi, and Al Sabbagh, 2015).
Artificial machines and tools used by the trainers in the training and development program
helps to enhance the capability of the adults to do the work. It is a fact that the practical
knowledge is more beneficial as compare to theoretical. Using the machines and tools
enhance the efficiency of adult with the capability. Trainers provide the instructions to adults
to use the machines and tools that help to enhance the knowledge of using the different tools
in the real life (Raheja, 2015)

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In the training and development program, the trainers nit only provide the information to
adult but also focuses on its weakness in order to reduce it. It is a fact that every individual is
weak at a certain skills that will not be perfect for the goals. The trainer addresses the
weakness so that the performance and efficiency of an adult will improve. The trainer
addresses the weaknesses by using the strength of an adult. The capability to do the work will
improve by improving the performance of an individual by addressing the weaknesses and
using the strength for appreciation. Using strength helps to motivate and enhance the skills of
an individual (Business Insight, 2018).
Providing the feedback to adults is a function of training and development program. It is a
responsibility of a trainer to provide the feedback to trainee at all the stages of training. It is a
technique to motivate the person in order to improve its capability. The positive feedback
motivates the adult to perform more. Feedback helps the adult to analyse its weaknesses and
strength to perform better in the future. It is fact that the self-realisation is the best key to
success in the future. Feedback is the best tool to enhance the capability of an individual to do
the work (Rodriguez, and Walters, 2017)
Providing the information in order to handle the situation helps the adult to enhance the
knowledge and capability. The information provided by the trainers for the careers as per
their skills and ability helps them to take the right decision for their career. It is necessary to
put the efforts in a right way to enhance the knowledge and the capability. Putting the efforts
in a right way improves the capability and increases the curiosity to learn the new things in
the same field. Training and development program provide the many facilities and organising
the activities that helps to building the knowledge and the capability of an adult (Golhar, and
Alex, 2017).

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At the end, it has been concluded that the lifelong learning is beneficial for every individual.
It is not only enhances the knowledge of an individual but also develop the personal skills
such as self-inclusion, motivation and many others. Training and development program helps
the build the knowledge and capability of adult learners. The role and responsibility of a
trainer improves the performance of an individual and helps to take the right decision. It is a
fact that the putting the efforts in a right way and in the right path enhances the knowledge
and capability of an adult learner in order to perform the activity.

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