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RETHINKING LEARNING CULTURE

Learnnovators

We in training seem to ignore all of these values and their implications for the learning culture of the organization. When we speak of learning culture, we seem to always focus on just the quantum of information. What is the learning culture around mistakes and learning from experience?

Culture 130
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What 21st Century Science Says About Memorable Learning Experience At Work

Thinkdom

Modern science, especially in learning & development, has come a long way in the last couple of decades. ,, Learning & behavioural sciences overlap more than we initially thought. Let’s first understand how human beings learn and then focus on some strategies that we can use to make professional learning stick.

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Situated Learning: Essential for a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Learning in this case required all of the elements of the actual situation: the particular water heater; the basement environment; the pressure I (and my wife) felt to have hot water; and my limited knowledge about modern heating and cooling. We have technology that allows employees to learn when, where, and how they need to learn.

Culture 100
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Hiring for a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of the keys to creating and sustaining a learning culture is hiring people who are continuous learners and who help others learn continuously. You want people who recognize the learning needs of others and can figure out ways to support their growth as part of the day-to-day work of the organization.

Culture 100
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Functional Stupidity at Work

The Performance Improvement Blog

This is much more than taking advantage of the various inbuilt cognitive biases with which behavioural economists are so obsessed. Companies that Spicer and Alvesson studied, hired smart people but then these people, because of company culture, were discouraged from using their brains. It is often intentionally created.

Cognitive 100
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If the spacing effect is so great, why is nobody using it?

Learning Pool

There are few things in learning theory that everyone in learning and development agrees on. Let me rephrase that: there is almost nothing in learning theory that everyone agrees on. We have a disputatious culture. Very few organizational learning programs make use of the spacing effect, currently. .

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Harry Levinson 1922-2012

The Performance Improvement Blog

We lost one of the giants in the study of organizational learning and performance this week. Harry Levinson died at the age of 90 after a long and productive career making organizational leaders aware of the importance of psychological dynamics to their employees and themselves. Harry Levinson.