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

JULY 31, 2014

Leaders say how they will support learning and how they will recognize and reward those employees who continually acquire new knowledge and new skills. . Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers. This learning cannot be left to chance.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

But people who don't see their actions as experiments, and those who don't know how to reason carefully from data, will continue to learn less well from their own experiences than those who do. To me, experimentation is an essential aspect of organizational learning. It’s action learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

What’s the difference between a “training culture” and a “ learning culture ”? As the chart shows, in a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning.

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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.) This message was well received by these senior leaders.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 21, 2014

Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity. Performance reviews are focused on learning and capacity building. Managers encourage their direct reports to acquire new knowledge and skills and apply that learning in the organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Leaders are communicating the importance of learning (acquiring new knowledge, skills, and capabilities) and holding managers accountable for learning and applying that learning to making a difference for the organization. You never arrive; there is always more to do on the journey.

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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. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

That ‘learning all the time’ is one of the underlying assumptions of the organization…and is discussed, expected, and followed up. That learning is valued and expected at all levels of the organization. Managers encourage their direct reports to acquire new knowledge and skills and apply that learning in the organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Coaching – a relationship in which a trained coach helps an employee develop the knowledge and skills to be a more effective manager by addressing real situations that manager faces in workplace. Mentoring – a relationship in which senior leaders impart their knowledge and wisdom on employees who are learning to be leaders.

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Learning Pool

JANUARY 11, 2022

Now some might think that switching from e-courses to e-resources might be the way to solve the problem but I think they are missing the underlying problem of how we harness the energy of others to power learning. We need more humane learning design and more humane learning journeys.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 12, 2016

I wish it were otherwise, but learning is not just a classroom activity anymore, it must be a total system activity that takes into account strategic goals of the organization, the culture of the organization (values, beliefs, artifacts, structure, etc.), Learning that makes a difference occurs when all of these factors are aligned. .

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 9, 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. Managers encourage their direct reports to acquire new knowledge and skills and apply that learning in the organization.

Culture 100

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 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. Managers encourage their direct reports to acquire new knowledge and skills and apply that learning in the organization.

Culture 100

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

More than a fixed environment, the word ‘ecosystem’ implies complex interactions and continued growth which might include: a range of people (managers, peers, mentors, coaches). formal learning elements (micro videos, webinars, workshops). work based learning mechanisms (action learning projects) and much, much more.

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Lambda Solutions

JUNE 14, 2020

This use of big data to improve online learning is called learning analytics. This is how learning analytics works within the context of your organizational learning management system (LMS): Learning management systems, like Moodle and Totara , collect a vast amount of user data.

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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

Recognizing that expensive outside consulting assistance was not a viable option, Burnside worked with internal accounting and client management leaders, asking them to describe the problem and brainstorm potential solutions. The CMO said, “I think the CLO knows what works in marketing as well as most marketing executives.

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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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