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How to Design Leadership Training Courses That Impact Business Outcomes 

Acorn Labs

Executive coaching Time-poor senior executives generally lean more towards a one-on-one approach to training. Executive coaching involves one-on-one coaching sessions with an experienced executive coach who provides guidance, feedback, and support to help leaders improve their performance and effectiveness.

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Key Elements of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

In a learning culture, the pursuit of learning is woven into the fabric of organizational life. The method used depends on what individuals, teams, and whole organizations need to learn.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

Managers must support and facilitate just-in-time learning that is responsive to emerging needs. A hospital, wishing to become more efficient and effective, has implemented “lean” by inviting the staff of departments to workshops on the application of “lean” in healthcare. Anticipation: Set an expectation for performance improvement.

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Leaders Learning about Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Recently, I conducted a workshop for the leadership team of a company that wants to increase the impact of its training programs. I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective.

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How to Design Leadership Training Courses That Impact Business Outcomes 

Acorn Labs

Executive coaching Time-poor senior executives generally lean more towards a one-on-one approach to training. Executive coaching involves one-on-one coaching sessions with an experienced executive coach who provides guidance, feedback, and support to help leaders improve their performance and effectiveness.

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Active and Passive Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

In this role, employees (as individuals, teams, or the organization as a whole) receive feedback about what they are doing and how they are doing it and, through individual and collective reflection, learn how to make themselves, their teams, and the enterprise more effective. Self-directed study of external courses (of their own choice).

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Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

In a training culture, the assumption is that the most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. In a learning culture, what matters is the knowledge and skills acquired and applied in the workplace and impact on achieving the organization’s strategic goals.

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