Action Learning, Organization, Organizational Learning and Teams

Organizational Learning Tools

The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 21, 2012

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. These categories of learners and tools translate into a four by three matrix of learners and learning tools.

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As globalization increases and communities become more diverse, the competitive advantage of any organization will be its collective knowledge and its expanded expertise. But none of this is possible without learning. Training Is Not Learning. Organizations waste billions of dollars per year on training.

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Active and Passive Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 13, 2012

In this role, employees (as individuals, teams, or the organization as a whole) receive feedback about what they are doing and how they are doing it and, through individual and collective reflection, learn how to make themselves, their teams, and the enterprise more effective.

Activities

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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

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. Who in this organization depends on me for what information?

Performance Support

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2017

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. It’s higher where all learning activities are separate from the HR function with different reporting lines to the C-suite.

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Key Elements of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2013

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. The method used depends on what individuals, teams, and whole organizations need to learn.

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A Productive Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Learning capability: make sure employees know how to learn, not just what to learn. Learning environment: ensure that employees focus not only on their own development but also on building a supportive learning environment throughout the organization.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

These are behaviors ingrained in the routines and rituals of organizations that are continually learning and learning how to learn. Leaders in these organizations do the following: Send the message - Leaders communicate the importance of learning to the organization.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In answering this question, the first thing managers have to understand is that continuous learning is the modus operandi for all high performance organizations. Individual, team, and enterprise performance can’t improve without learning. Learning isn’t in addition to a manager’s job; it IS a manager’s job.

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 21, 2014

The rate at which an organization learns may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Every organization faces some kind of competition. Learning all the time” means making learning part of the culture of an organization.

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Leaders Learning about Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

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.

Performance Support

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Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. Whereas in a learning culture, responsibility for learning resides with each employee and each team. The CLO, or HR, or a training department controls the resources for learning.

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16 Signs of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

How do you know your organization has a learning culture ? How will people be learning? While a learning culture is an environment that’s always being developed, certain signs indicate that you are making progress. In a learning culture…. What will you see people doing?

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The only thing holding companies back from learning at the speed of change is their organizational culture which, for many, is a barrier to learning. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

Culture

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Learning Trends for 2022: What to watch and why

Learning Pool

JANUARY 11, 2022

The past year has been huge for learning teams as they continue to accelerate and mature their adoption of digitally-enabled learning. Once again, there is a backdrop of uncertainty as we look at the learning trends for the year ahead. This is about developing the business acumen of your learning team to drive value.

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Game –engaging employees in learning by applying principles of gaming (scoring, competition, rules of play, etc.) Simulation – replicating real-life problem solving within a safe environment; for example, learning business acumen by working with a team to solve a typical business problem and receiving immediate feedback on their performance.

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Learning All the Time

The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Bernie Donkerbrook, EQMentor, wrote this response to my post : “ Learning all the time ” means making learning part of the culture of an organization. That ‘learning all the time’ is one of the underlying assumptions of the organization…and is discussed, expected, and followed up. How we do things around here.”).

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Reprise: Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The rate at which an organization learns may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Every organization faces some kind of competition. Learning all the time” means making learning part of the culture of an organization.

Culture

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Reprise: Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2015

The rate at which an organization learns may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Every organization faces some kind of competition. Learning all the time” means making learning part of the culture of an organization.

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A Manager's View of Employee Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 6, 2016

I love the sense of understanding, enthusiasm and acceptance the leadership team conveys here regarding their role in learning. As you might expect, based on my input to a previous blog (3/25, Training Isn’t Learning ), I was delighted to see the emphasis on the necessary role of the manager! The logic and specifics are great.

Management

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Are Managers Too Busy to Learn?

The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

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Partnering With the C-Suite

CLO Magazine

MAY 3, 2013

Successful chief learning officers understand that business longevity is defined by an ability to innovate and adapt. They know that unless organizations can learn faster than the competition — and faster than the rate of change — they are destined to take a back seat in the marketplace.

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Revamping 70-20-10

CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2012

There is a core set of frameworks that support the way organizational learning and development is conducted. The world of mobile and social learning and Google, however, requires new measures. Consider: Do employees really learn from on-the-job experiences by themselves, or is reflection necessary?

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Organizational Learning Tools

This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

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Active and Passive Learning in Organizations

No Time to Learn

Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

Key Elements of a Learning Culture

A Productive Learning Culture

Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

Learning to Compete

Leaders Learning about Learning

Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

16 Signs of a Learning Culture

Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

Learning Trends for 2022: What to watch and why

50 Ways to Lever Learning

Learning All the Time

Reprise: Learning to Compete

Reprise: Learning to Compete

A Manager's View of Employee Learning

Are Managers Too Busy to Learn?

Partnering With the C-Suite

Revamping 70-20-10

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