The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 24, 2012

“Organizational learning” and “learning organization” are terms that continue to be misused. It seems like these days any business, nonprofit, or government agency that provides training and education to its employees calls itself a learning organization. Work and learning must be part of the same process.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2014

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. A learning culture is an environment in which learning how to learn is valued and accepted.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

The culture of most organizations prevents them from learning. And without learning they are destined to have disengaged employees, high turnover, low performance teams, unproductive workplaces, inadequate responses to competitive pressures, an inability to keep up with the pace of change, and an unsustainable business.

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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. Companies must learn more deeply about their customers and markets. Training Is Not Learning.

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STRIVR

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Learning retention statistics show that the average learner forgets 70% of what they learn within an hour and 90% within a week — unless efforts are made to help them retain it. The Learning Guild, a NYC-based community that supports research into organizational learning — calls this “the dirty secret of corporate training.”

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Ethical behavior in the workplace has never been more important, yet companies continue to act as if a workshop or elearning program during onboarding is all an employee needs in order to behave ethically. That might meet the requirements of a regulatory agency, but don’t expect your employees to learn “…to do the next right thing.”

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Businesses are constantly adjusting to new market conditions, from consumer behavior shifts to supply chain interruptions. That’s where Managed Learning Services (MLS) solutions come in. As L&D professionals, we understand the challenges of navigating a shifting economy.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 2, 2015

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart ’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g.,

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Traditional learning programs and technology can be valuable tools to build behaviors, strengthen your talent bench, adhere to regulatory requirements, and more. But these learning tools are often event-based, siloed activities. They don’t often mirror how we learn in our everyday lives.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

An Inclusive Learning Growth Pyramid. Some organizations provide myriad opportunities for learning at different levels of the organizational pyramid. An inclusive learning pyramid would help employees at every level to learn the relevant skills and grow to the next level.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As organizational learning continues to evolve, it’s time to dust off a learning method that has the power to reshape how knowledge is cultivated and shared and addresses employee well-being : community-based learning. It’s a fundamental concept that underpins how humans learn from one another in everyday life.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Traditional learning programs and technology can be valuable tools to build behaviors, strengthen your talent bench, adhere to regulatory requirements, and more. But these learning tools are often event-based, siloed activities. They don’t often mirror how we learn in our everyday lives.

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Matrix

AUGUST 15, 2019

Learning measurement is one of those topics that constantly seems to need revisiting. Because there is a lot of transformation in organizations as a whole and in their demands when it comes to L&D, programs have to evolve, become innovative and tailored to the specific needs of an ever changing audience. All in all.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 12, 2016

Improving employee learning and performance in organizations today means systems change. and the quality of the learning interventions (formal training, coaching, mentoring, self-directed study, action learning, etc.). We went physically to a building, and we learned from a teacher. Create a context for learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

whole enterprise is an essential aspect of high performance organizations. However, barriers to this learning are common in organizations. These barriers must be overcome in order for organizations to have long term success. What additional barriers to learning have you observed in organizations? .

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Learnnovators

MAY 3, 2022

When speaking of a code of conduct, we always refer to business-critical tasks, such as behavior in operational dealings with vendors, customers, competitors and colleagues. It’s first of all a little ironic that ‘business-critical’ absolutely never includes learning…! But that’s where my argument takes root. Emphatically not.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If this post describes your organization, you need to make the transition to a learning culture. For high-level soft skills training, organizations need to create a path to mastery, and accompany people down that path. In other words, your organization needs to "get better at getting better." transportation).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2014

X-Factor - discovering what makes you unique and your special contribution to the success of your organization. Innovation - developing the ability to embrace the new, to take risks, to learn from your successes and your failures, and to persevere.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This is the third in a series of articles in which the authors explore their reflections on the future of learning, given the tumult and chaos of the past year, and how learning needs to evolve to serve organizations differently. First, when organizational learning is great, it is highly contextual.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Eight leader habits are essential to a learning culture. These are behaviors ingrained in the routines and rituals of organizations that are continually learning and learning how to learn. Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers.

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WalkMe Training Station

MAY 30, 2016

The first article was “ How ‘Learning Organizations’ Beat Natural Selection” . With organizational learning, teams work together to help each other learn, and to ensure that nobody is left behind in the overall progress and achievement of the target goals.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

People act on the basis of tacit knowledge but they are often not aware of how daily behavior is shaped by this knowledge. Those routines may or may not serve the best interests of the organization and its customers. Managers and Employee Learning . Managers of employees have a critical role to play in employee learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A survey of SHRM members conducted in August indicates that although most organizations say that a performance management system is important to them, few think that their companies are doing a good job managing performance. Encourage them to learn together from their successes and from their failures.

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WalkMe Training Station

APRIL 24, 2016

Perhaps no greater factor to determining organizational success in recent years is the ability of an organization to recognize business challenges and adapt, that is, to make the necessary changes to help foster growth and higher performance. Organizational Learning. The Learning Organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2013

These systems are used to monitor achievement of goals, not progress toward goals and not shifting goals, sending the message that the organization only cares about a static set of competencies. I’ve written previously about the importance of creating a learning culture in organizations.

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Raptivity

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It is essential that organizations up-skill or re-skill employees quickly, as needed, and corporate trainers have a big role to play in the same. Choose a tool that fits in well with your ecosystem and helps you create effective learning with minimum resources. Learners need to know why they are learning something.

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Aptara

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In the rapidly evolving world of eLearning, traditional Learning Management Systems (LMS) are gradually giving way to more dynamic and personalized Learning Experience Platforms (LXPs). These platforms are revolutionizing the way learners engage with content and organizations deliver training. LXP vs. LMS: What Sets Them Apart?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 20, 2014

They know they can evaluate reaction to training, learning from training, behavior change in the workplace, and results for the organization. Even assessment of “learning” doesn’t tell us much. I always had tremendous respect for the man who simply wanted to help individuals and organizations become more effective.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

The topics ranged from the problems with performance reviews to managing temporary workers to innovation to developing a learning culture in organizations. Here are the links with a short excerpt from each post: Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture. Eight leader habits are essential to a learning culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Or, to say it more accurately, our organizations are designed to ensure that smart employees act stupidly. This is what Andre Spicer and Mats Alvesson have concluded from their research on organizations. Chris Argyris referred to these “stupid” behaviors as “organizational defenses”.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

One of many methods of organizational learning is a “community of practice”. This is a term coined by Etienne Wenger to describe “…groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” We said that evaluation of learning is: Measuring business outcomes.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This article presents organizational learner presence theory as an amalgamation of andragogy, social presence theory, organizational citizenship behavior and impression management. Organizational learners are employees and therefore usually adult learners who receive training through their jobs.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

An organization has to do something with those metrics in order to “get done” what needs to get done, i.e., organizational learning, performance improvement, and change. Many managers organize work, provide direction, and supervise people without measuring anything important.

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Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2020

Academic knowledge is no longer as highly valuable, while upskilling and reskilling have become vital in the success of any organization. This makes sense, considering the department has an eminently supportive role in the organization. A lot of times, the learning function is also used as a communication channel.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

A learning management system (LMS) is considered to be a necessary tool in most complex organizations today, especially those industries, like nuclear energy, airlines, and healthcare, where monitoring compliance with government-imposed training requirements is essential. These are behaviors of a learning culture.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2011

In larger networks we might also find that there is local collaboration among network agents – this resembles the typical team plays in an organization. This is the sort of behavior that plays an important role in learning. Learning cannot happen without feedback.

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Matrix

JUNE 20, 2019

Yet it is precisely because everything is happening so fast that it’s increasingly difficult to measure the impact of learning within the organization. Managers take this one step forward and also want to see some tangible indicators that a learning intervention has been truly profitable to the organization.

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