The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Learning is integral to decision-making ; before any significant decision, information is gathered to inform that decision and team members are learning how to make effective decisions and apply that ability to a workplace problem. You never arrive; there is always more to do on the journey.

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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!

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action-learning permeates all team activity. . Performance reviews are focused on learning and capacity building. These are signs of a learning culture. Asking questions and giving feedback is just what people do. How we do things around here.”).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

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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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Roleplay – people (usually two or three) acting out roles to learn about themselves and others by putting themselves in somebody else’s shoes. Reflection-in-action – learning from reflecting on an activity while doing it. Reflection-on-action – learning from reflecting on an activity by looking back on what happened.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

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. In a training culture, the training and development function is centralized.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We identified organizational barriers to learning and how those barriers can be overcome. We explored ideas around building their organizational capacity to apply action-learning through small experiments using Deming’s model of plan-do-check-act.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

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CLO Magazine

MAY 3, 2013

While Weinstein has left Wescott’s COO position and returned to outside consulting, he continues to function as a member of the firm’s executive committee and provides ongoing organizational, learning and talent services to the firm on a part-time basis. They can be reached at editor@CLOmedia.com.'

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2012

There is a core set of frameworks that support the way organizational learning and development is conducted. Do employees learn from their jobs when they have been doing the same thing for 10 years? What happens when employees learn from team members on a project: is that part of the 70 or 20 percent?

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