The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

These are behaviors ingrained in the routines and rituals of organizations that are continually learning and learning how to learn. Leaders in these organizations do the following: Send the message - Leaders communicate the importance of learning to the organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

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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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

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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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

The 20 percent: learning through others. Learning is social. People learn with and through others. Conversations are the stem cells of learning. Effective managers encourage their team members to buddy up on projects, to shadow others and to participate in professional social networks. Communities of practice.

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

Your Workscape is everything in your organization except the training department. It’s the organization as organism. In the same vein, I talk about Working Smarter instead of informal learning, social learning, and so forth. Some people denigrate informal learning but nobody’s against Working Smarter.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The world of mobile and social learning and Google, however, requires new measures. Dan Pink challenged assumptions about what motivates people in his book Drive, where he said organizations should focus more on intrinsic as opposed to traditional extrinsic motivators. Development occurs in a learning zone, not a comfort zone.

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