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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Companies continue to emphasize training with little payoff while these programs are more costly and less effective than other kinds of learning interventions. We know that people learn most from their co-workers and from on-the-job experience, yet we invest the most in formal, training programs. It’s the Culture.

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

Health care providers from around the globe are attracting patients with lower cost surgeries and treatments. If, however, leaders and the people within the organization are learning all the time, faster than competitors, and applying the right strategies at the right times, the organization has hope. (p.326). Conner and James G.

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What is social learning (and how to adopt it)

Docebo

Course completion increased to 85% on HBX, a Harvard Business School online education initiative when it introduced social learning. Semiconductor manufacturer, AMD, says their shift to social learning saves more than US$250,000 per year in web-based training production costs. What is social learning? Not good, right?

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Reprise: Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

Health care providers from around the globe are attracting patients with lower cost surgeries and treatments. If, however, leaders and the people within the organization are learning all the time, faster than competitors, and applying the right strategies at the right times, the organization has hope. (p.326). Conner and James G.

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Reprise: Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

Health care providers from around the globe are attracting patients with lower cost surgeries and treatments. If, however, leaders and the people within the organization are learning all the time, faster than competitors, and applying the right strategies at the right times, the organization has hope. (p.326). Conner and James G.

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What Is Peer-to-Peer Learning in the Workplace? (+Examples)

WhatFix

Here are seven types of peer-to-peer learning examples commonly found in a corporate setting. Action learning groups. Action learning groups are small groups of 5-7 people. Action learning is a process of insightful questioning, reflective listening, generating new actions, and learning from a shared group.

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Aligning Employee Learning with the Organization

The Performance Improvement Blog

I wish it were otherwise, but learning is not just a classroom activity anymore, it must be a total system activity that takes into account strategic goals of the organization, the culture of the organization (values, beliefs, artifacts, structure, etc.), external inputs (home life, economy, social network, competition, etc.),