Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. learning culture needs every manager encouraging, facilitating, and holding people accountable for learning. Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Training Harold Jarche Jane Hart learning organization organizational learning Tom QuayleOne 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., MORE >>

So what has this got to do with leadership and culture? This can do so much for the organization in terms of leadership and culture, including: Better understanding of what is going on in the organization across many teams & projects. That’s a culture I would want to be a part of. Tags: Culture social networking formal informal micro-blogging social social learning twitter yammer Inside the organization, a dilemma now exists and is rapidly taking shape. Employees want to connect with one another. Global workforce redistribution > 24 hour clock syndrome. MORE >>

As a consequence and according to Gallup Management Journal , this disengaged and disconnected culture (in US-based organisations) is costing $300b per year in lost revenues alone. One budding approach that may help unify your team, your business unit and your organization to ultimately enrich and enhance your corporate culture, such that all employees feel as though they are moving forward as a connected group, is through the deployment and utilisation of an internal enterprise-wide micro-blogging platform. Moving Towards a Culture of Sharing. Henry Ford. In Summary. MORE >>

'I just re-read something Garry Ridge, CEO of the WD-40 Company , wrote for my book Creating a Learning Culture. The company had done the same thing for more than 40 years–and its culture, management style, and leadership were deeply embedded in maintaining the status quo. If we wanted to develop a culture that could take us into tomorrow, we’d have to expand our tolerance for risk, devote more energy to learning, and actively court change. It seems to me 2013 may become the year organizations finally pay attention to improving their business culture. MORE >>

Nilofer Merchant wrote a blog post for Harvard Business Review last year titled “ Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time.” ” It contains a fantastic definition of organizational culture that I would have printed on a t-shirt if I wore an extra large instead of a size small: “Culture is the set of habits that allows a group of people to cooperate by assumption rather than by negotiation. Based on that definition, culture is not what we say, but what we do without asking. ” Blatant Media is a culture-centric organization that fits Ms. MORE >>