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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

As globalization increases and communities become more diverse, the competitive advantage of any organization will be its collective knowledge and its expanded expertise. The Purpose of Business is Learning. But none of this is possible without learning. Employees tell stories to draw lessons and learn from their experiences.

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Key Elements of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

A “learning culture” is a community of workers continuously and collectively seeking performance improvement through new knowledge, new skills, and new applications of knowledge and skills to achieve the goals of the organization. The method used depends on what individuals, teams, and whole organizations need to learn.

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What is social learning (and how to adopt it)

Docebo

Users upload their own content, on whatever topic they choose, and their credibility is determined by the popularity and rating of that video from those within the YouTube community. It’s why learners prefer to learn in groups, in which an interchange of knowledge and perspective creates new knowledge personal to individual learners.

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Implications of the ESG agenda for leadership

CLO Magazine

Engaging in dialogue to understand and empathize with groups and communities with perspectives contrary to one’s own. Assigning participants a mentor. Relating well with multiple constituencies. Engaging in multi-stakeholder collaboration with unconventional partners, such as competitors, NGOs and trade unions.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work. This informal learning is facilitated by coaching, mentoring, communities-of-practice, experiments, action-learning and any of a myriad of other methods including the various forms of social media.

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6 Steps To Creating Learning Ecosystems (And Why You Should Bother)

Learnnovators

More than a fixed environment, the word ‘ecosystem’ implies complex interactions and continued growth which might include: a range of people (managers, peers, mentors, coaches). formal learning elements (micro videos, webinars, workshops). work based learning mechanisms (action learning projects) and much, much more. .” – John Dewey.

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Creating learning experiences that don’t suck

CLO Magazine

Rosenstock has done this exercise with thousands of educators and communities in large groups. People overwhelmingly remember learning experiences that involved one or a combination of these six elements: A project. Experiential methodologies also are excellent at catching leadership styles and behaviors in action.