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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. Develop a detailed understanding about the organization’s customers. Learn about future growth intentions.

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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

Rick Wartzman identifies six, key questions that Peter Drucker , the “father of modern management”, would ask managers: What does the customer value? 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.

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Key Elements of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

A “learning culture” is a community of workers continuously and collectively seeking performance improvement through new knowledge, new skills, and new applications of knowledge and skills to achieve the goals of the organization. In a learning culture, the pursuit of learning is woven into the fabric of organizational life.

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

Retail businesses compete for space and for customers. Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity. Performance reviews are focused on learning and capacity building. (Garvin & Edmondson, 2008). Every organization faces some kind of competition.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Engage stakeholders – Every stakeholder , whether managers, employees, customers, business partners, investors, vendors, and, in some cases, legislators and government agencies, has something to offer to the collective wisdom of the organization. We want to find out what they know and what they need to learn.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

An engineer in a prototype department of a manufacturer learns how to operate a 3D printer. Cross-functional team members in a marketing firm learn how to run their project meetings more effectively. A hospital learns how to put the “wow” in customer service. Learning breeds learning and success breeds success.

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

The Purpose of Business is Learning. Yes, the purpose of business is to make a profit, retain customers, be sustainable, satisfy shareholders, and, for some, make a difference in the community. But none of this is possible without learning. Companies must learn more deeply about their customers and markets.