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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

In answering this question, the first thing managers have to understand is that continuous learning is the modus operandi for all high performance organizations. Individual, team, and enterprise performance can’t improve without learning. Learning isn’t in addition to a manager’s job; it IS a manager’s job.

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Using a Pricing Calculator to Pivot the Conversation from Dollars & Hours to Effort & Outcomes

LXD Central

This step is about defining the problem to be solved, the audience, and the performance gap you intend to address with your learning solution. This step is about defining the problem to be solved, the audience, and the performance gap you intend to address with your learning solution. Here’s a task model for this step.

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Key Elements of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

A “learning culture” is a community of workers continuously and collectively seeking performance improvement through new knowledge, new skills, and new applications of knowledge and skills to achieve the goals of the organization. In a learning culture, the pursuit of learning is woven into the fabric of organizational life.

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Leaders Learning about Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Recently, I conducted a workshop for the leadership team of a company that wants to increase the impact of its training programs. I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective. They wanted to know specifically what they could do to facilitate learning.

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6 Steps To Creating Learning Ecosystems (And Why You Should Bother)

Learnnovators

We can shed our obsession with isolated formal learning and embrace the real question: how can we best support organisations and individuals to develop a culture of continuous learning and high performance. Central to this cultural shift is the understanding that learning happens by learners, not to them.

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How to Design Leadership Training Courses That Impact Business Outcomes 

Acorn Labs

It plays a pivotal role in: Shaping the talent pipeline Solidifying culture Aligning organisational goals with performance. The technical aspect (skills and knowledge) can be grasped basing leadership courses on competency models , which give you a grade of performance (something like foundational, intermediate, advanced, strategic).

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Active and Passive Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Jane Hart has provided us with an excellent list of “passive” ways in which people learn in their workplaces. She includes: Company training (face-to-face workshops and e-learning). Internal job aids (to support use of systems, processes and activities). Self-directed study of external courses (of their own choice).