The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

What should be a manager’s role in employee learning? In answering this question, the first thing managers have to understand is that continuous learning is the modus operandi for all high performance organizations. However, all managers face organizational barriers to making learning part of everyone’s job.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The only thing holding companies back from learning at the speed of change is their organizational culture which, for many, is a barrier to learning. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

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. Manager’s Role is People. The biggest barrier to learning in organizations are the beliefs and attitudes of managers and leaders.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective. I argued that in order for any kind of learning intervention (training, coaching, mentoring, action learning, etc.) They wanted to know specifically what they could do to facilitate learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In a learning culture , formal training is just one of many methods used to facilitate employee learning. Internship – working in a temporary position for the purpose of learning about a job, the work environment of that job, and the organizational culture. (My apologies to Paul Simon.).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 6, 2016

I love the sense of understanding, enthusiasm and acceptance the leadership team conveys here regarding their role in learning. As you might expect, based on my input to a previous blog (3/25, Training Isn’t Learning ), I was delighted to see the emphasis on the necessary role of the manager! See below.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We can shed our obsession with isolated formal learning and embrace the real question: how can we best support organisations and individuals to develop a culture of continuous learning and high performance. Central to this cultural shift is the understanding that learning happens by learners, not to them.

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