The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 11, 2013

They need to learn how to examine what they do, compare that to what needs to be done, reflect on what they have learned from their actions, and make the needed changes in the organization. They must be open to true transformation; not simply incremental improvements. .

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 27, 2016

Most organizations are “locked in an industrial mindset.” They think of their workers as cogs in the wheels of progress, doing what they’re told, not smart enough to figure out how best to do their jobs or improve their organizations. Managers in these organizations are needed to tell workers what to do and how to do it.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In the online course that I teach for ASTD on Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , one of the questions I hear most often is, “How can I change the culture in my company when there is little support from management and our unions resist any change that might affect the work rules?” This question has no easy answer.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 30, 2014

Just as a carpenter wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint, saw, hammer, and screwdriver, a leader shouldn’t try to build an organization without the methods and processes that facilitate organizational learning and change. It’s not that you can’t find tools in organizations.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

learning) and the factors that block people from achieving that change. The table below lists forces that commonly drive learning in organizations and the factors that block learning in organizations. Lack of Leadership Support. Work vs. Learning. Strategic Goals. Limited Resources. Technology.

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Ed App

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Today’s global environment is characterized by the constant change of organizations, which cannot be successful if employees are not aware of the need for change and if they do not adopt a strategy promoting continual evolving. Open Organizations.

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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

APRIL 4, 2013

Leaders today face many challenges in facilitating organization performance improvement. Fifteen of these problems are listed in a survey of organizational performance challenges. Survey of Organization Performance Challenges. Organizational Learning Tools. Tools of a Learning Organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I don’t know if John Baldoni intended his latest leadership book to be about learning, but that’s exactly what it is about. Through other leaders’ stories and through his own experiences, Baldoni describes what outstanding leaders learn in order to be effective. He has an acronym for it: MOXIE.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The statements are paradoxes that confront every leader in organizations today. Most leaders look for a solution that is impossible to achieve and, in so doing, fail to move the organization forward. Leadership Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork Getting Unstuck learning Ralph Jacobson'

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LearnUpon

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Organizations need to roll out training, and provide the tools necessary to help their team adapt to new environments. Knowledge is key here, and because change is constant and inevitable, organizations that make continuous learning a strategic priority will be more likely to succeed. What is a learning organization?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 8, 2015

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. Align your goals with the strategic goals of the organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 25, 2016

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. Managers provide opportunities to learn, practice that learning, and apply learning on-the-job.

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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

MARCH 21, 2015

Deloitte has identified “leadership development” as a major challenge for HR leaders in 2015. From this study, they conclude: Organizations around the world are struggling to strengthen their leadership pipelines, yet over the past year businesses fell further behind, particularly in their ability to develop Millennial leaders.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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.

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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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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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Allen Interactions

JULY 8, 2020

As leaders how do we successfully lead through and to the future of work?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 27, 2014

It doesn’t happen simply because of the pronouncements of the CEO, or a reorganization of business units, or by conducting an organizational pulse survey, or by hiring new managers. Culture is much too complex; it’s the how and why of what an organization does internally and externally.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Which is to say that most learning in organizations is still delivered using formal, structured, leader-centered training methods. In a podcast produced for ATD, I explain why organizations need to change from this “training culture” to a “learning culture”.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 12, 2016

To attract, develop, and retain more strategic leaders, organizations need to find employees who already have that potential and help them develop the capability. Open the flow of information across the organization. Accept failure, as long as it results in learning and performance improvement.

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WalkMe Training Station

JUNE 19, 2016

The first article was titled “How ‘Learning Organizations’ Beat Natural Selection” After detailing the importance of a learning culture within a learning organization, I would like to briefly look at several barriers to organizational learning. Lack of Direct Leadership.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If this post describes your organization, you need to make the transition to a learning culture. Meyer, addressed this issue in his blog for Forbes online: Any corporate learning professional will tell you that sales and leadership training need to be processes, not events. Leadership training requires a similar process.

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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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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Organizations, i.e., the business leaders and executives are not interested in learning. It is up to us--L&D professionals--to connect learning and collaboration to business goals like customer satisfaction, efficient troubleshooting, innovative design ideas, reduced production time, and such. It cannot be a add on.

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PDG

JULY 26, 2021

Sales leadership is one of the most challenging roles in any organization. To succeed, sales leaders need to maintain a laser focus on winning mindsets that help sales organizations achieve their goals. . ” The mindset of a sales leader can set the tone for the working habits of the entire organization.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 23, 2010

You name it, somebody is trying to measure it: employee satisfaction, employee engagement,   organizational pulse, leadership, attitudes toward a recent change, etc. The problem is that organizations are collecting a great deal of data but not applying it in ways that result in substantive change.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 23, 2011

My colleagues, Leslie Stambaugh and Jim Stilwell, and I have published an ebook to illustrate principles and best practices of effective communication in organizations. Leaders in every organization in which we have worked have told us that their organizaion had a "communication problem." Planning for Organizational Change.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 18, 2012

If you’re not going to evaluate a leadership development program, don’t do the program! I’m talking about a systematic, evidence-based look at why it was done, what was done, how it was done, what happened as a result, how it can be improved, and what the organization learned from the process.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 11, 2014

It occurred to me that those of us who create tools for organizational learning and improvement also stand on the shoulders of the talented people who came before us. Leadership Development Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning' We have "stolen" their art out of respect and made it our own.

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Nomadic Learning

APRIL 19, 2018

I recently co-hosted a webinar with Cindy McCauley from CCL© on Making Leadership Happen, at Scale. We explored the shifts that are happening in the business environment and how combining collaborative approaches to leadership with emerging digital tools can help you develop prepared and agile leaders at all levels of your organization.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2008

After my post on Improving Organizational Learning Infrastructure, Daan Assen suggested that it was too limited in reference to the broader Learning Organization picture. It starts with three factors, a supportive environment, concrete processes and practices, and a leadership that reinforces learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The answer to this question is important because of the impact culture has on an organization. You can have the most elegant strategic plan, but if your organization’s beliefs and assumptions, values and guiding principles, workplace symbols and artifacts, and company lore are not consistent with that plan, not much will happen.

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Allen Interactions

JULY 8, 2020

Today’s pandemic, covid-19 environment with uncertainty and instability abound, creating, collecting, and sharing organizational knowledge can be a struggle. Organizational learning requires continuous reflection and a willingness to be flexible and agile.

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