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Assessing Your Organizational Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Do they know how to ensure that learning is applied and makes a difference for the organization? Each of these tools is designed according to the authors’ definition of a learning culture. Whichever assessment tool you use, what’s important is to follow a stakeholder-focused process that results in organizational learning.

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Organizational Learning Tools

The Performance Improvement Blog

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. A training program, or an educational event, or even a CEO’s speech about the importance of learning is not enough.

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Disruptive Innovation and Organizational Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Rather than trying to predict disruptive innovation or create a department for disruptive innovation, executives and employees need to be continually learning so that they can adapt to change quickly, whether that change is external or internal. For example, they need to learn how to know what’s happening in the marketplace (i.e.,

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Organizational Learning in the Age of Ideas

The Performance Improvement Blog

For example, Zappos is shaping its own form of Holacracy , Semco Partners has become known for a radical form of industrial democracy, and the Valve Corporation has eliminated managers. A culture of command-and-control is a barrier to organizational learning.

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How to Achieve an Organizational Learning Goal

The Performance Improvement Blog

You can apply these same principles to organizational learning goals. For individuals, teams, and whole organizations to achieve their learning goals, they need to develop supportive processes and relationships. How has that been going and what can you learn about your own process of learning?

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10 Principles of Organizational Learning DNA

The Performance Improvement Blog

How do we know if an organization has the “DNA” that predisposes it to organizational learning? Gary Neilson and Jaime Estupinan have been studying and writing about "organizational DNA" for the past 10 years. When employees acquire new knowledge and skills, this is recognized and applauded.

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LearnTrends: Reinventing Organizational Learning

Experiencing eLearning

These are my live blogged notes from Jay Cross & Clark Quinn’s LearnTrends session on Reinventing Organizational Learning. Article they wrote for CLO mag: “Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer&#. If you don’t know the solution & need to network/collaborate to find it, that’s learning.