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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

This world is one in which humans no longer make things or fix things or sell things or provide basic services. To survive and thrive today, industries need innovation which is essentially about learning. Companies must learn more deeply about their customers and markets. Work is No Longer Work . The nature of work is changing.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

An engineer in a prototype department of a manufacturer learns how to operate a 3D printer. Cross-functional team members in a marketing firm learn how to run their project meetings more effectively. A hospital learns how to put the “wow” in customer service. Learning breeds learning and success breeds success.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

This could be information about such things as how to improve individual performance, how to work more effectively as a team, how to plan and make decisions as an organization, how to help customers use products and services, and how to find out what is needed in the marketplace.

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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. Apps give us car services and meals on-demand – no waiting. These services are competition for established companies and are changing the industry and guest expectations.

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Performance measurement – learning from measures of performance such as sales figures, production numbers, and customer service feedback. Roleplay – people (usually two or three) acting out roles to learn about themselves and others by putting themselves in somebody else’s shoes.

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Evidence-Informed Practice

The Performance Improvement Blog

They are examining practices that have been proven to be effective and applying this experience to their own delivery of services. They are taking adult learning theory and systems thinking, combining that with evidence from program evaluation studies, and using the information to make their own organizations more effective.

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Partnering With the C-Suite

CLO Magazine

One example highlighting a successful partnership between learning and the line comes from Emanate, a mid-sized integrated marketing communications agency. Emanate’s CEO, Kim Sample, was building a culture of fast-response, never-satisfied client service.

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