Action Learning, Activities and Organizational Learning

Active and Passive Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 13, 2012

Another approach is to make the learner an active creator of knowledge and skills. Internal job aids (to support use of systems, processes and activities). Although “active” methods might be implied by some of the items on Hart's list, I think “active” ways of learning should be made more explicit in our organizations.

Activities

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2017

Part of the learning leader’s job is to develop organizational learning strategies. For one thing, organizations aren’t reviewing their learning and development strategies very often. It’s higher where all learning activities are separate from the HR function with different reporting lines to the C-suite.

Learning Strategy

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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

And short, weekly conversations between managers and their direct reports would be far more than is typical in organizations today and could go a long way to support learning. They need managers to make learning a high priority for their time and effort. HR and Training departments can’t do it alone.

Performance Support

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A Productive Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

They say that businesses should shift from a culture based on participation in learning activities to a culture based on results from learning activities. They write: To make this shift from a culture of learning participation to a productive learning culture, L&D functions must manage three key components.

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Experimentation

The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

In other words, the scientific activity that surrounds experimentation is about thinking clearly in the face of evidence obtained as the result of an experiment. To me, experimentation is an essential aspect of organizational learning. It’s action learning.

Cognitive

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 21, 2014

Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity. Performance reviews are focused on learning and capacity building. Managers encourage their direct reports to acquire new knowledge and skills and apply that learning in the organization.

Culture

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Leaders Learning about Learning

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.) This message was well received by these senior leaders.

Performance Support

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Data indicates that less than 20% of participants apply learning from formal training programs. Unfortunately, companies continue to spend most of their employee development budget and most of their time and effort on training programs and systems tracking training activities.

Organization

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Learning All the Time

The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action-learning permeates all team activity. . Performance reviews are focused on learning and capacity building. These are signs of a learning culture. Asking questions and giving feedback is just what people do.

Culture

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Learning Trends for 2022: What to watch and why

Learning Pool

JANUARY 11, 2022

The need to create learner/customer journeys that accelerated colleagues from knowing and understanding to activating their new skills in work. If you know marketing, you will have heard of the AIDA model: Awareness-Interest–Desire–Action. We need more humane learning design and more humane learning journeys.

Trends

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Aligning Employee Learning with the Organization

The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 12, 2016

Improving employee learning and performance in organizations today means systems change. I wish it were otherwise, but learning is not just a classroom activity anymore, it must be a total system activity that takes into account strategic goals of the organization, the culture of the organization (values, beliefs, artifacts, structure, etc.),

Organization

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Industry Report: Too Much Training; Not Enough Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Training magazine has published its 34 th annual Industry Report that is based on a survey of its database of organizations with 100 or more employees, asking them questions about training expenditures and activities.

Blended Learning

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Roleplay – people (usually two or three) acting out roles to learn about themselves and others by putting themselves in somebody else’s shoes. Reflection-in-action – learning from reflecting on an activity while doing it. Reflection-on-action – learning from reflecting on an activity by looking back on what happened.

Simulations

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A Manager's View of Employee Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 6, 2016

As you might expect, based on my input to a previous blog (3/25, Training Isn’t Learning ), I was delighted to see the emphasis on the necessary role of the manager! For me, ‘accountable’ means managers are as much, and maybe more, responsible as the individual learner for applying learning and delivering results.

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The Essential Guide to Learning Analytics in the Age of Big Data

Lambda Solutions

JUNE 14, 2020

In fact, every time you use digital technology, you’re leaving a digital footprint of your activity. And in recent years, it has become possible to collect, aggregate, analyze, categorize, and learn from all of this data. This use of big data to improve online learning is called learning analytics. The Dawn of Big Data.

Analytics

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Reprise: Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity. Performance reviews are focused on learning and capacity building. Managers encourage their direct reports to acquire new knowledge and skills and apply that learning in the organization.

Culture

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Reprise: Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2015

Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity. Performance reviews are focused on learning and capacity building. Managers encourage their direct reports to acquire new knowledge and skills and apply that learning in the organization.

Culture

Culture Virtual World Learning Agile

6 Steps To Creating Learning Ecosystems (And Why You Should Bother)

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

formal learning elements (micro videos, webinars, workshops). work based learning mechanisms (action learning projects) and much, much more. To embrace informal learning we must empower learners to play a central and proactive part in the process. just-in-time performance tools (checklists, quick reference guides).

Blended Learning

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Are Managers Too Busy to Learn?

The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

Management

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Revamping 70-20-10

CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2012

There is a core set of frameworks that support the way organizational learning and development is conducted. Do employees learn from their jobs when they have been doing the same thing for 10 years? What happens when employees learn from team members on a project: is that part of the 70 or 20 percent?

Portfolio

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eLearning Learning

Active and Passive Learning in Organizations

Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

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No Time to Learn

A Productive Learning Culture

Experimentation

Learning to Compete

Leaders Learning about Learning

This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

Learning All the Time

Learning Trends for 2022: What to watch and why

Aligning Employee Learning with the Organization

Industry Report: Too Much Training; Not Enough Learning

50 Ways to Lever Learning

A Manager's View of Employee Learning

The Essential Guide to Learning Analytics in the Age of Big Data

Reprise: Learning to Compete

Reprise: Learning to Compete

6 Steps To Creating Learning Ecosystems (And Why You Should Bother)

Are Managers Too Busy to Learn?

Revamping 70-20-10

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