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Key Elements of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

This kind of culture puts a value on using a variety of learning methods , including workshops, seminars, online courses, DVDs or online video, games and simulations, coaching, mentoring, action-learning, job-rotation, internships, or any of a dozen other ways to structure learning experiences.

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Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

In a training culture, the assumption is that the most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. The CLO, or HR, or a training department controls the resources for learning. In a training culture, the training and development function is centralized.

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16 Signs of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Learning is applied throughout the organization to continuously improve performance and achieve strategic goals. Employees and their managers are held accountable for learning; measures for evaluating impact of learning on the organization are used and the data is used to make improvements in learning methods and processes.

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Leaders Learning about Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Recently, I conducted a workshop for the leadership team of a company that wants to increase the impact of its training programs. I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective.

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Performance measurement – learning from measures of performance such as sales figures, production numbers, and customer service feedback. Department meetings – often a lost opportunity for learning, these gatherings can be designed so that participants learn about processes such as planning, project management, innovation, and evaluation.

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Evidence-Informed Practice

The Performance Improvement Blog

They are taking adult learning theory and systems thinking, combining that with evidence from program evaluation studies, and using the information to make their own organizations more effective. We identified organizational barriers to learning and how those barriers can be overcome.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

In a training culture, most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand. Everyone is working to help everyone else learn from the successes and failures across the organization.

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