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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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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

We know that people learn most from their co-workers and from on-the-job experience, yet we invest the most in formal, training programs. Consider the alternatives: just-in-time e-learning (desktop and mobile), coaching, mentoring, simulations, on-demand video, and experiential-learning. It’s the Culture.

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

Supportive leaders: Executive support is essential to create a learning organization. Executives provide the finances and direction necessary to guide the organization’s learning efforts. Leaders also can be valuable mentors and coaches. Their expertise can be incorporated into learning programs.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

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.

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Creating learning experiences that don’t suck

CLO Magazine

People overwhelmingly remember learning experiences that involved one or a combination of these six elements: A project. Humans learn — truly learn — when they are at the center of a memorable learning experience. Experiential methodologies also are excellent at catching leadership styles and behaviors in action.

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Corporate Training Trends 2020

Unboxed

Form a plan of action moving forward to train in weak areas and fill in knowledge gaps: Brush up on product or service knowledge. Practice the pitch by role-playing with a colleague or mentor. Then, use your Learning Management System (LMS) to create a unique formula of weighted inputs to automate the employee certification process.

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The Benefits of Creating a Leadership Legacy

CLO Magazine

” The Company Legacy In will and trust law, a legacy is a bequest, something of value handed down to someone else. In popular use, the term usually refers to achievements or actions by which people will be remembered after they are gone. • Is mentoring a more sustainable form of problem solving?