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Organizational Learning Tools

The Performance Improvement Blog

What are the tools of organizational learning? As I’ve stated in a previous blog post , a high performing organization needs a comprehensive approach to learning and a set of tools to facilitate learning. A training program, or an educational event, or even a CEO’s speech about the importance of learning is not enough.

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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of the concerns that worry training and learning professionals most about leading culture change in their organizations is that managers will say that they don’t have time to facilitate and support employee development. These managers don’t value learning. Not anymore. What is our business, and what should it be?

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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

Learning opportunity: provide access to high-quality, curated learning opportunities, not a large number of choices. Learning capability: make sure employees know how to learn, not just what to learn. I agree with the need for these components but I think change to a productive learning culture requires much more.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Learners need to believe that what they are learning is valued, that their managers will help them find opportunities to apply that learning on the job, and that their bosses will not block their development and advancement in the organization. More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work.

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Leaders Learning about Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Recently, I conducted a workshop for the leadership team of a company that wants to increase the impact of its training programs. I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective. They wanted to know specifically what they could do to facilitate learning.

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Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

In a learning culture, it’s assumed that learning happens all the time, at events but also on-the-job, through coaches and mentors, from action-learning, from smartphones and tablets, socially, and from experiments. In a training culture, the training and development function is centralized.

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