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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. For another, when they do review and/or develop learning strategies, those strategies don’t always mesh well with business priorities.

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Industry Report: Too Much Training; Not Enough Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Training magazine has published its 34 th annual Industry Report that is based on a survey of its database of organizations with 100 or more employees, asking them questions about training expenditures and activities. Instructor-led classroom only” is still reported to be the primary method of employee learning and development.

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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

A water-cooler conversation about expectations and performance improvement, an informal inquiry about what was learned from a recent training program, an on-the-job suggestion to improve technique, often do not take more than a few minutes.

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

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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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of the major barriers to learning is a culture that does not value learning. Producing and selling things is valued, but not learning. Supervisors don’t release direct reports from their workplace to attend workshops and other learning events. We have models and tools for making this happen.

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16 Signs of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Managers are helping their direct reports create an individualized learning plan linked to strategic goals of organization; managers are monitoring learning progress and providing feedback; they are structuring opportunities to apply learning on the job; and holding direct reports accountable for results.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Functional units collaborate by sharing learning and best practices with each other. Managers and their direct reports frequently discuss what each needs to do to improve performance. More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work.

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