The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2014

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. A learning culture is an environment in which learning how to learn is valued and accepted.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 25, 2016

How do we know if an organization has the “DNA” that predisposes it to organizational learning? Gary Neilson and Jaime Estupinan have been studying and writing about "organizational DNA" for the past 10 years. Managers provide opportunities to learn, practice that learning, and apply learning on-the-job.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As organizational learning continues to evolve, it’s time to dust off a learning method that has the power to reshape how knowledge is cultivated and shared and addresses employee well-being : community-based learning. It’s a fundamental concept that underpins how humans learn from one another in everyday life.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

The culture of most organizations prevents them from learning. And without learning they are destined to have disengaged employees, high turnover, low performance teams, unproductive workplaces, inadequate responses to competitive pressures, an inability to keep up with the pace of change, and an unsustainable business.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As globalization increases and communities become more diverse, the competitive advantage of any organization will be its collective knowledge and its expanded expertise. But none of this is possible without learning. Companies must learn more deeply about their customers and markets. Training Is Not Learning.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

An Inclusive Learning Growth Pyramid. Some organizations provide myriad opportunities for learning at different levels of the organizational pyramid. An inclusive learning pyramid would help employees at every level to learn the relevant skills and grow to the next level.

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Learnnovators

MAY 3, 2022

When speaking of a code of conduct, we always refer to business-critical tasks, such as behavior in operational dealings with vendors, customers, competitors and colleagues. It’s first of all a little ironic that ‘business-critical’ absolutely never includes learning…! But that’s where my argument takes root. Emphatically not.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Ethical behavior in the workplace has never been more important, yet companies continue to act as if a workshop or elearning program during onboarding is all an employee needs in order to behave ethically. That might meet the requirements of a regulatory agency, but don’t expect your employees to learn “…to do the next right thing.”

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

whole enterprise is an essential aspect of high performance organizations. However, barriers to this learning are common in organizations. These barriers must be overcome in order for organizations to have long term success. individual success but not recognizing team success.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If this post describes your organization, you need to make the transition to a learning culture. Meyer, addressed this issue in his blog for Forbes online: Any corporate learning professional will tell you that sales and leadership training need to be processes, not events. Leadership training requires a similar process.

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PDG

JULY 26, 2021

Sales leadership is one of the most challenging roles in any organization. To succeed, sales leaders need to maintain a laser focus on winning mindsets that help sales organizations achieve their goals. When time is of the essence, it can be easier to fall back on familiar thoughts, people, and behavior patterns.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Eight leader habits are essential to a learning culture. These are behaviors ingrained in the routines and rituals of organizations that are continually learning and learning how to learn. Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Throughout 2013, I used this blog to illuminate important leadership and management issues. The topics ranged from changing organizational culture to evaluating training programs to making managers responsible for employee learning to creating a learning culture. Managers and Employee Learning .

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2013

These systems are used to monitor achievement of goals, not progress toward goals and not shifting goals, sending the message that the organization only cares about a static set of competencies. I’ve written previously about the importance of creating a learning culture in organizations.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

Throughout 2014, I used this blog to illuminate important leadership and management issues. The topics ranged from the problems with performance reviews to managing temporary workers to innovation to developing a learning culture in organizations. Eight leader habits are essential to a learning culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 3, 2016

When I ask the training and development leaders who participate in my ATD Essentials of Developing an Organizational Learning Culture workshop to say what percentage of employees who attend training programs actually apply what they’ve learned on the job, the answers range from about 10% to about 50%, with most at the lower end of that range.

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WalkMe Training Station

APRIL 24, 2016

Perhaps no greater factor to determining organizational success in recent years is the ability of an organization to recognize business challenges and adapt, that is, to make the necessary changes to help foster growth and higher performance. Organizational Learning. The Learning Organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 3, 2010

As we come out of the recession and companies prepare for hiring and growth, the level of trust in a company’s culture will have a lot to say about whether that organization will be successful or not. Rules to control behavior proliferate, but they are inevitably ineffective because only shared values and trust can really govern behavior.

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Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Now consider this question: “Is IT the only organization in your enterprise involved in Change?” Culture of Continuous Learning and Change. Unfortunately, implementation of a transformational change of this nature involves shifting thinking, changing behaviors, and driving new outcomes – preferably the sustainable variety.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But today, and in the future, the new challenge for learning teams is to create an edge for their organization by radically improving their development of technical specialists. Leading organizations in this field benefit in five ways. New positive behaviors. Organizational innovation. And it’s more valuable work.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

What''s important is what we do with that data to change behavior of individuals, teams, organizations, and communities. It continues with learning from the analysis (knowledge) followed by generating the insights and wisdom needed to sustain change. That data must be turned into something meaningful.

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Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2020

Academic knowledge is no longer as highly valuable, while upskilling and reskilling have become vital in the success of any organization. This makes sense, considering the department has an eminently supportive role in the organization. A lot of times, the learning function is also used as a communication channel.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Bernie Donkerbrook, EQMentor, wrote this response to my post : “ Learning all the time ” means making learning part of the culture of an organization. That ‘learning all the time’ is one of the underlying assumptions of the organization…and is discussed, expected, and followed up. How we do things around here.”).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 9, 2010

The best run nonprofits have multiple sources of income so that the loss of one of these streams does not prevent the organization from achieving its mission. This creates trust in the organization and makes it much less likely that money can be used in unscrupulous ways. Transparency is vital. Madoff Investment Securities.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The real value is in organizational learning from evaluation. That is, from reflecting on the meaning and significance of those findings for improving performance and achieving the goals of the organization. Learning from evaluation depends on asking the right questions.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

Sean Murray and I present a similar argument in our book, “The 5As Framework,” except we go further to say that training, as well as any learning intervention in an organization, should contribute to achieving the strategic goals of that organization. How to Create a Learning Culture in Organizations.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Each year, the Chief Learning Officer of the Year Award is presented to an individual learning executive who delivers the most exemplary development and guidance, is a strategic business partner and provides essential leadership to the organizational learning and development function. Bringing learning to life.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 26, 2015

How We Built a Workplace People Love , explains what small companies and departments in large organizations can do to create a learning culture. He addresses fear, reward systems, hiring, on-boarding, learning, making mistakes, and experimenting. These are the true signs of a learning organization. He writes: 1.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This article presents organizational learner presence theory as an amalgamation of andragogy, social presence theory, organizational citizenship behavior and impression management. Organizational learners are employees and therefore usually adult learners who receive training through their jobs.

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NovoEd

AUGUST 20, 2019

Less clear is how to bring about the cultural and behavioral changes needed in the workplace for the benefits of diversity to emerge. Diverse employees are not listened to, are not promoted, and never really get into the leadership positions where they can actively shape a company’s culture. Diversity Is Good for Business.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Should your organization have a CCO and CLO? Paul Hebert argues against organizations appointing a Chief Culture Officer. Hebert writes: …as soon as you codify, quantify and assign responsibility to something it ceases to be everyone’s responsibility…Culture is a defined as a set of shared values, behaviors, norms.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

The culture that underpins a managing minds approach must support and encourage an ongoing and collective discovery, sharing, and appli­cation of knowledge and skills at the individual, team, and organization levels. How do you know if your organization has the DNA that predisposes it to learning? What are the visible signs?

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

For years we’ve been hearing the term “learning organization” used to describe a company or other entity. It is usually used as a compliment: being such an organization is a good thing. Learning organizations and the people in them learn constantly from everything they do. And, in fact, many do.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 6, 2016

I love the sense of understanding, enthusiasm and acceptance the leadership team conveys here regarding their role in learning. As you might expect, based on my input to a previous blog (3/25, Training Isn’t Learning ), I was delighted to see the emphasis on the necessary role of the manager! The logic and specifics are great.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 20, 2016

Workforce management, however, is among the most vexing challenges facing any organization. Informed decision-making – ability to use the collective intelligence of the workforce to make good strategic and operational decisions for the organization. And behavioral change is hard.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 22, 2011

What might organizational learning look like 10 years from now? I think that in 10 years organizational learning will be almost unrecognizable. The key to successful organizations will be managing the interactions of these two “guilds” to form coherent and balanced training.

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Harbinger Interactive Learning

MAY 27, 2019

’ These alerts try and change our behavior on what we give priority to, by being in our sight. Ironically, even when it such a useful feature, we are missing it in our organizational learning systems. Do you think nudge-learning can help your organization achieve its learning goals?

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