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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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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. But, the aforementioned Brandon Hall study reports that strategic leveraging of learning resources must be done consistently.

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Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

In a training culture, the assumption is that the most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. The CLO, or HR, or a training department controls the resources for learning. In a training culture, the training and development function is centralized.

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16 Signs of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Learning is applied throughout the organization to continuously improve performance and achieve strategic goals. Employees and their managers are held accountable for learning; measures for evaluating impact of learning on the organization are used and the data is used to make improvements in learning methods and processes.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

They need to be able to search, locate, evaluate, select, and apply information. Given the times we live in, managers must make ongoing learning and performance improvement part of what they do on a day-to-day basis for themselves and for the people they supervise. Employees need agility when it comes to information.

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Experimentation

The Performance Improvement Blog

But people who don't see their actions as experiments, and those who don't know how to reason carefully from data, will continue to learn less well from their own experiences than those who do. To me, experimentation is an essential aspect of organizational learning. It’s action learning.

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Performance measurement – learning from measures of performance such as sales figures, production numbers, and customer service feedback. Department meetings – often a lost opportunity for learning, these gatherings can be designed so that participants learn about processes such as planning, project management, innovation, and evaluation.