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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

Part of the learning leader’s job is to develop organizational learning strategies. For one thing, organizations aren’t reviewing their learning and development strategies very often. For another, when they do review and/or develop learning strategies, those strategies don’t always mesh well with business priorities.

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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

What is our business, and what should it be? And short, weekly conversations between managers and their direct reports would be far more than is typical in organizations today and could go a long way to support learning. What is the task? Who in this organization depends on me for what information?

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Key Elements of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

This kind of culture puts a value on using a variety of learning methods , including workshops, seminars, online courses, DVDs or online video, games and simulations, coaching, mentoring, action-learning, job-rotation, internships, or any of a dozen other ways to structure learning experiences.

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A Productive Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

In a blog post titled, "Building a Productive Learning Culture", Thomas Handcock and Jean Martin say that businesses, because of need and demand, are increasing employee participation in training but failing to increase productivity. Project leaders who use action learning to help their teams learn and improve team performance.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

Google did a study of its employees and found that managers are successful in Google, not because of their technical expertise, although that’s important, but because of what they do to help team members learn and develop and achieve success. Four trends are making continuous learning an essential part of doing business today.

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Leaders Learning about Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective. I argued that in order for any kind of learning intervention (training, coaching, mentoring, action learning, etc.) We discussed what leaders can do to ensure that these elements are addressed.

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Retail businesses compete for space and for customers. Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity. Garvin & Edmondson, 2008).

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