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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. In a learning culture, the pursuit of learning is woven into the fabric of organizational life.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Eight leader habits are essential to a learning culture. These are behaviors ingrained in the routines and rituals of organizations that are continually learning and learning how to learn. Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers.

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Consider the alternatives: just-in-time e-learning (desktop and mobile), coaching, mentoring, simulations, on-demand video, and experiential-learning. And in some situations people might learn best from the workflow, through action-learning conversations, through self-directed experiences, or from apprentice and internship assignments.

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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of the concerns that worry training and learning professionals most about leading culture change in their organizations is that managers will say that they don’t have time to facilitate and support employee development. These managers don’t value learning.

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Think employees want to park politics at the door? Think again.

CLO Magazine

Learning at work has become an increasingly social experience. We deepen our knowledge and relationships at work through trust-building moments, putting context around our experiences and connecting with colleagues about a variety of issues inside and outside of work. With trust, of course, comes great responsibility.

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The Benefits of Creating a Leadership Legacy

CLO Magazine

” Now, consider this question in an organizational context: If a leader walks out of the office each night, each year, and at the end of a brilliant career has compiled a record of heroic successes, yet leaves no long-term impact on others, did leadership occur? As the question implies, legacy is a crucial component of leadership.

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Creating learning experiences that don’t suck

CLO Magazine

For example, if inspiring a culture of innovation is one of your learning objectives, you need your participants to experience and see first-hand what that looks, feels and smells like. Experiential methodologies also are excellent at catching leadership styles and behaviors in action.