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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

In answering this question, the first thing managers have to understand is that continuous learning is the modus operandi for all high performance organizations. 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.

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

There are five possible causes for failed alignment and results: Ineffective reporting structures for learning functions: According to the CIPD report, alignment is lower in organizations where learning and development is part of generalist HR activities.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

This emphasis on formal training is a barrier to learning and change. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture, trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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

CLO Magazine

By moving beyond the status quo and adopting new capabilities, CLOs in all industries can enable true employee readiness. 5 Capabilities of an Enlightened CLO. CLOs typically focus on learning and employee development, bringing effective and efficient training to the workforce and delivering it in an accessible and timely manner.

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Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

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. The CLO, or HR, or a training department controls the resources for learning.

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There’s an Alternative to Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Action learning with a trained coach is a cost-effective approach that enables leaders to develop capabilities while working to solve urgent organizational or social problems. Essentially, leaders are learning while working, making it easy to see how learned skills apply on the job. But there’s an alternative.

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

CLO Magazine

Learning, as described by Amy Edmonson , is an “ongoing process of reflection and action, characterized by asking questions, seeking feedback, experimenting, reflecting on results and discussing errors or unexpected outcomes of actions.” Can better plan what’s required to accomplish a specific learning goal or activity.

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