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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

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. For another, when they do review and/or develop learning strategies, those strategies don’t always mesh well with business priorities.

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Key Elements of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

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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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

What is our business, and what should it be? 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. What is the task? Who in this organization depends on me for what information?

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A Productive Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

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. Project leaders who use action learning to help their teams learn and improve team performance.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

Individual, team, and enterprise performance can’t improve without learning. Learning isn’t in addition to a manager’s job; it IS a manager’s job. By “learning” I mean acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that help individuals, teams, and whole organizations improve performance.

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Now tasks done by humans are being enhanced by the Internet, providing the collective knowledge of the world at their fingertips. As globalization increases and communities become more diverse, the competitive advantage of any organization will be its collective knowledge and its expanded expertise. The Purpose of Business is Learning.

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Retail businesses compete for space and for customers. Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity. These are signs of a learning culture.

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