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 take responsibility for employee learning. Learning is aligned with results.

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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. The formal performance review, whether annual or more often, has failed as a tool for improving performance.

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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. And it’s not enough to select a method for learning. You need their support.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

What should be a manager’s role in employee learning? In answering this question, the first thing managers have to understand is that continuous learning is the modus operandi for all high performance organizations. Individual, team, and enterprise performance can’t improve without learning. to 2:00 p.m.

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Infopro Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This is where the Learning and Development (L&D) department steps in, evolving from a traditional training approach to a strategic cornerstone. Prioritizing continuous learning and upskilling is crucial for driving organizational success. It requires a constant commitment to nurturing employees’ skills and fostering growth.

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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 7, 2023

That’s where Managed Learning Services (MLS) solutions come in. Large enterprises may need additional resources to respond swiftly to changes, making it crucial that they adapt with the help of a comprehensively managed learning ecosystem.

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ProProfs

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Are you aware how do employees in an organization learn? The 70:20:10 model for Learning and Development states that individuals acquire 70% of their knowledge from job-related experiences, 20% from interactions with others and a mere 10% from formal educational events. Why Performance Support is Crucial for Organizations.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I did a webcast for the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) on the topic of the manager’s role in employee learning and performance improvement. The important point is that it is not enough to acquire new knowledge and skills; this learning must be applied and make a difference for the organization.

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 29, 2021

Learning in the flow of work is a new buzzword that has caught the attention of L&D in recent times. It is a good strategy to have as an organizational learning practice. Why is it gaining traction, and how can you use it effectively? We will explore that in this article.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

So one approach that I have been promoting is, instead of thinking of Formal and Informal Leaning as polar opposites, rather to think in terms of a Social Workplace Learning Continuum (as shown diagrammatically in the image on the right). But in order to support the full SWL Continuum, there are 5 points to take on board.

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Adobe Captivate

JULY 10, 2018

The 70:20:10 model for Learning and Development clearly establishes the need for L&D teams to focus on informal learning. In this article, I outline the significance of Performance Support Tools (PSTs) and how they can boost learning. Why You Should Use Performance Support Tools.

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Learnnovators

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve previously written about the need to design learning & high performance ecosystems here , and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones. I’ve captured some of these in the infographic below: 5 Ingredients of HIGH PERFORMANCE ECOSYSTEM : COMPANY CULTURE. PERFORMANCE SUPPORT.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 11, 2013

This is a post in a series that I am writing about how the future role of L&D is moving from “packaging learning” to “scaffolding learning”. But what these both have in common is that they are still a “ managed learning ” process. “It is team learning, not individual learning, that adds to organizational learning.”

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 10, 2022

Most organizational learning interventions are considered complete once an eLearning course is delivered. A crucial learning opportunity is being lost here. Ample practice opportunities after the training can go a long way in cementing long-term retention and supporting performance goals.

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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. In a learning culture, the pursuit of learning is woven into the fabric of organizational life.

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Infopro Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2022

If there’s one thing that the world has learned over the past few years, it’s that change is inevitable, but combating change is easier said than done. LinkedIn’s 2022 Workplace Learning Report reveals that 87% of L&D professionals have helped their organizations adapt to change. Delivers with Certainty.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 11, 2013

Clark Quinn predicts that “…we’ll see more examples of the notion of a ‘performance ecosystem’ of resources aligned around individual needs and responsibilities, instead of organized around the providing silos.” Increasingly, workers will learn their jobs by doing their jobs.”

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 20, 2023

Organizations that foster a learning culture gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. Companies can enhance employee engagement, attract top talent, and drive innovation by prioritizing professional growth and creating an environment that encourages continuous learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

One of the concerns that worry training and learning professionals most about leading culture change in their organizations is that managers will say that they don’t have time to facilitate and support employee development. These managers don’t value learning. It’s all about learning!

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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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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2008

However, then the easy, and uninteresting answer, is to fall into talking about elearning, performance support, mobile, portals, knowledge management, all that stuff that makes people’s eyes glaze over if they haven’t seen the light. It’s about populating the performance ecosystem with support.

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EI Design

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The 70:20:10 model for Learning and Development clearly establishes the need for L&D teams to focus on informal learning. In this article, I outline the significance of Performance Support Tools (PSTs) and how they can boost learning. Why You Should Use Performance Support Tools.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Historically, HR teams have relied on static organizational constructs and external providers to support their organizational needs. In doing so, platforms leverage the organization’s collective intelligence while ensuring individual teams adopt and apply learning resources in a local context.

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From the Coleface

MARCH 31, 2022

Lockstepping makes it hard to use as an aide-memoire or performance support, because a user has to unlock/click through lots of screens to get to the screen they need. Address the long tail of learning requests – An LXP that can surface several thousand items holds the promise that it will service low frequency requests.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 24, 2013

Chief Learning Officers who belong to the Linkedin Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group were asked by Jason Silberman to describe their three biggest “pain points”. Not knowing what results to expect from learning interventions, whether designed internally or purchased from vendors.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 27, 2014

Culture is the collective beliefs, assumptions, and values of employees (and other stakeholders) and culture affects every aspect of organizational life. As I have argued in previous posts , to be successful in today’s world, companies need to have a culture that values and supports learning.

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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. I interpret “environment” to mean organizational culture.

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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

JULY 5, 2012

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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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In a blog post titled, "Building a Productive Learning Culture", Thomas Handcock and Jean Martin say that businesses, because of need and demand, are increasing employee participation in training but failing to increase productivity. Learning capability: make sure employees know how to learn, not just what to learn.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Managers in any organization, whether nonprofit, government, or business, play a pivotal role in creating and sustaining learning. However, they do have to believe that people can learn and change, they have to care about their own learning, and they have to value the development of the people they supervise.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 17, 2016

What are we doing to support older-worker learning? They want to learn, too! With 8,000 boomers becoming 65 every month, the implications for workplace learning are staggering. And they want to continue learning, too. How do they/will they affect organizational learning, performance improvement, and results?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective. I argued that in order for any kind of learning intervention (training, coaching, mentoring, action learning, etc.) They wanted to know specifically what they could do to facilitate learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 6, 2014

Josh Bersin writes in a recent blog post titled, Why Companies Need a Chief Learning Architect , that the technology of learning (digital and otherwise) has become so disorganized, dis-integrated, and confusing in large companies that they need someone to have responsibility for managing all of the learning resources.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

David Grebow, in a blog post titled Only Smart Companies Will Win , writes about the necessity of changing from a training culture to a learning culture. Grebow highlights the fact that digital technology has provided people with many new ways to learn, enhancing learning in our schools and homes.

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