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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. Learning delivery is important, but strategic alignment between learning and the business should be a key focus.

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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

What are your ideas for us to try to do new things, develop new products, design new ways of reaching the market? 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. What is our business, and what should it be?

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Manufacturers compete for market share and for talent. Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity. Garvin & Edmondson, 2008).

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

To survive and thrive today, industries need innovation which is essentially about learning. Innovation is how to use products and services in new ways that rapidly respond to changing market demands and create new products and services. Companies must learn more deeply about their customers and markets.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

By “learning” I mean acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that help individuals, teams, and whole organizations improve performance. An engineer in a prototype department of a manufacturer learns how to operate a 3D printer. A hospital learns how to put the “wow” in customer service.

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Learning Trends for 2022: What to watch and why

Learning Pool

This is about developing the business acumen of your learning team to drive value. One of the many interviews I have carried with L&D professionals this year was with a lady who had just taken on responsibility for learning having worked in marketing and sales for years. Two things stood out that relate to business acumen.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

Social media allows restaurants, hotels, airlines, and travel services to market directly to us based on our personal interests. 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.

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