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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

Torrance Learning

What’s the difference between a “training culture” and a “ learning culture ”? As the chart shows, in a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

The only thing holding companies back from learning at the speed of change is their organizational culture which, for many, is a barrier to learning. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture.

Culture 178
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Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

What’s the difference between a “training culture” and a “ learning culture ”? As the chart shows, in a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning.

Culture 100
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Fostering trust, psychological safety and growth: How to leverage learning science to create a strong workplace learning culture

CLO Magazine

It turns out, however, that providing on-the-job professional development and skills training is one of the most desirable, effective and feasible strategies organizations can implement to improve company culture, engagement and employee retention. Learning is hard and requires time and effort in any context and the workplace is no exception.

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Beyond the status quo: how enlightened CLOs can enable true employee readiness

CLO Magazine

It’s a perfect storm of pressure, in which chief learning officers weigh ROI and manage digital disruption across industries as they pivot from the age of the customer to the age of the employee. Technology is the fulcrum of L&D transformation from static, “top-down” courses to employee-driven, collaborative learning.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

Managers have control of their own learning, not corporate trainers, HR, or a CLO. And, because of this, store managers have embraced continuous learning for themselves and for their employees. However, all managers face organizational barriers to making learning part of everyone’s job.

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Implications of the ESG agenda for leadership

CLO Magazine

This has brought to the forefront the importance of the leadership activities, behaviors and skills involved in leading cultural change in organizations, including: How you collaboratively construct a narrative about the purpose of the work everyone is involved in. These aren’t just “nice-to-haves” that demonstrate a well-rounded individual.