Some learning strategies and how Gympass helps their employees to grow up as professionals

Can you imagine getting paid to do what you love most and still have the opportunity to learn on the best e-learning platforms on the market for free?

This is part of what Gympass offers to its employees, enabling professional and personal growth.

Gympass understands that learning is something continuous and not just something punctual, that’s why it gives access to some learning platforms for its employees, as follows:

• Udemy Business

It has more than 6000 courses with certificates for different types of demands such as engineering, technology, communication, sales, among others.

• Learning O’Reilly

It has several books and training of the most varied types, enabling online and continuous learning.

• Coursera

It has more than 4000 courses with certification from several universities around the world.

In addition to giving access to all these platforms, we have some other meetings and events like study groups, tech talks, short presentations (which aims not just sharing knowledge but also enhancing speaking skills) with huge topics and also career path mentoring with Tech Leads and Engineering Managers, as well as Medium articles as a result that foster our constructive collaboration culture. To enjoy these platforms Gympass created some learning paths, for both hard and soft skills, and thinking about the individual evolution of each employee there is a path for each area of expertise and with a separation of courses by levels Junior, Mid-level, Senior. These are some of the learning paths we have today:

Hard Skills:

• Engineering Backend
• Engineering Frontend
• Product
• UX
• Leadership

Soft Skills:

• Presentation Skills
• Communication Skills
• English

To exemplify some of the courses and books that we could work and develop our skills on these platforms, we have about the software development — “Scala & Functional Programming for Beginners | Rock the JVM” (Udemy) and with the author of the Scala language creator of the course “Functional Programming Principles in Scala” (Coursera). Others focused on learning techniques — “Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects” (Coursera) and about the books to managing software teams and productivity through collaboration — “The Manager’s Path” and “Debugging Teams” (O’Reilly).

All these learned subjects can be discussed informally in study groups or even presented to your team in short presentations and huge topics or with a wider audience such as tech talks. As a result, these and other courses and books will help you in your career.

However, with access to all these platforms, we need to have some way to organize our study routine.

Here are some examples of how much time to set aside for studies:

• 20 minutes before or after work;
• 30 minutes while I’m in traffic going to work (podcast);
• 10 minutes at intervals of meetings;
• 30 minutes listening to that audio as you run on the treadmill in the gym;
• 60 minutes on the weekend.

Regardless of how long you can choose to study, the important thing is to create a routine.

Some points that can help you create a good study routine, and prioritize your appointments and tasks are:

• Analyze your schedule and routine, and what really matters to you;
• Make it a habit to study, as well as going to the gym or doing physical activity every day;
• Add goals and objectives with well-defined deadlines, so that after a few days of studying you can maintain your routine;
• Have a reward at the end of your objective as this will help you to don’t give up along the way.
• Take breaks between study periods.

By exercising these points you will find that you will find time for this and other things you haven’t seen before. After all, the best time to study is the one that fits into your routine.

So, it is always time to learn and seek knowledge, as it is worth emphasizing “that people can take everything from you except your knowledge” — Albert Einstein

If you are interested in joining the Gympass team, visit our website and remember that you must experience places that provide you with personal and professional growth.

Thanks Vitor Mantovani for writing this article with me!