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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

By “learning” I mean acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that help individuals, teams, and whole organizations improve performance. An engineer in a prototype department of a manufacturer learns how to operate a 3D printer. A hospital learns how to put the “wow” in customer service.

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Learning Trends for 2022: What to watch and why

Learning Pool

In the wake of the pandemic in 2020, we saw the mass movement of learning into digital with learning technology providing the only way to adapt to lockdowns and enable organizations to support the tremendous upheavals to work, operating models, and business practices. Two things stood out that relate to business acumen.

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Game –engaging employees in learning by applying principles of gaming (scoring, competition, rules of play, etc.) Simulation – replicating real-life problem solving within a safe environment; for example, learning business acumen by working with a team to solve a typical business problem and receiving immediate feedback on their performance.

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Aligning Employee Learning with the Organization

The Performance Improvement Blog

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.), Learning that makes a difference occurs when all of these factors are aligned. .

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

Learnnovators

formal learning elements (micro videos, webinars, workshops). work based learning mechanisms (action learning projects) and much, much more. ACTION MAPPING TO FOCUS ON PERFORMANCE. “ We can’t structure or even schedule social learning, but we can seed it by providing real value on social learning platforms.