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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Encourage risk-taking – Organizations that seek new solutions to old problems, creativity and innovation in their operations and products, employees who “think outside the box” and “walk the talk”, need to allow managers to make mistakes and learn from those experiences. This learning cannot be left to chance.

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Highlights From Day Two of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer Magazine Symposium

CLO Magazine

I attended DAU’s Learning Road Map for the Future where Christopher Hardy, director of the Global Learning and Technology Center of Defense Acquisition University, detailed how DAU provides learning and job support assets needed to fill the gaps supporting learning on the job for over 125,000 employees.

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Are Managers Too Busy to Learn?

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

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50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 (3)

Jay Cross

Learning is social. People learn with and through others. Conversations are the stem cells of learning. People learn more in an environment that encourages conversation, so make sure you’re fostering an environment where people talk to each other. Communities of practice.

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Through the Workscape Looking Glass

Jay Cross

Action learning. Personal Learning Network. Peer learning. Platform for conversation. Communities of Practice. Individual publishing (Learn out loud!). Social learning. Make conversation easy. We support continuous learning, not events. Mentors, coaching. Create knowledge.

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