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Organizational Learning Tools

The Performance Improvement Blog

What are the tools of organizational learning? As I’ve stated in a previous blog post , a high performing organization needs a comprehensive approach to learning and a set of tools to facilitate learning. A training program, or an educational event, or even a CEO’s speech about the importance of learning is not enough.

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

Part of the learning leader’s job is to develop organizational learning strategies. For one thing, organizations aren’t reviewing their learning and development strategies very often. However, learning leaders may not fully understand strategies and tactics in depth. Or, “generate 1,000 more leads a month.”

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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

This is also true for teams that need to become more effective and whole organizations that want to become more successful. And short, weekly conversations between managers and their direct reports would be far more than is typical in organizations today and could go a long way to support learning.

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Experimentation

The Performance Improvement Blog

To me, experimentation is an essential aspect of organizational learning. It’s action learning. Instead of thinking about new programs and initiatives in terms of success and failure, we would learn more if we considered them experiments. With the first approach there is no organizational learning.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

An engineer in a prototype department of a manufacturer learns how to operate a 3D printer. Cross-functional team members in a marketing firm learn how to run their project meetings more effectively. A hospital learns how to put the “wow” in customer service. Learning breeds learning and success breeds success.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

We want to find out what they know and what they need to learn. This could be information about such things as how to improve individual performance, how to work more effectively as a team, how to plan and make decisions as an organization, how to help customers use products and services, and how to find out what is needed in the marketplace.

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

But none of this is possible without learning. At its core, any high performing organization is about learning; continually using new information to become smarter, better, and more effective. To survive and thrive today, industries need innovation which is essentially about learning.