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Assessing Your Organizational Learning Culture

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For example, David Garvin and Amy Edmondson created an assessment tool to look for: a supportive learning environment, concrete learning processes and practices, and leadership behavior that provides reinforcement. The survey provides feedback for organizational reflection. He writes that the organization survey process.

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How to Create a Learning Culture in Organizations

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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. training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice).

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Why Companies Do Not Need a Chief Learning Architect

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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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What's a Thought Leader?

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Readers of this blog know that I like to define terms that have become over-used to the point of meaninglessness. Russ Alan Prince and Bruce Rogers writing for Forbes, "Becoming a thought leader is about making money and making history.". Leadership Organizational Learning Teamwork thought leader' Smith, and David Sibbet.

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Reprise: How to Create a Learning Culture in Organizations

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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. training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice).

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A Productive Learning Culture

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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. Leadership Learning Culture Organization Culture Organizational Learning'

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Why Leaders Don't Use Strategic Tools

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In the first of a series of blog posts that Ralph Jacobson and I wrote for the ASTD Workforce Development Blog, we argue that strategic leaders need strategic tools. Leadership Organizational Learning ASTD Daniel Kahneman Ralph Jacobson'

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