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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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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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

An inclusive learning pyramid would help employees at every level to learn the relevant skills and grow to the next level. Robust offerings would bring together the technology, behavioral and functional skills needed for the employee to perform their role effectively based on the business context and the need of the organization.

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PDG

JULY 26, 2021

Sales leadership is one of the most challenging roles in any organization. When time is of the essence, it can be easier to fall back on familiar thoughts, people, and behavior patterns. These four mindsets are vital tools to keep in your leadership toolbox. Be bold, wisely.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In the online course that I teach for ASTD on Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , one of the questions I hear most often is, “How can I change the culture in my company when there is little support from management and our unions resist any change that might affect the work rules?” This question has no easy answer.

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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.

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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

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. And people realize that facilitating learning doesn’t necessarily take much time. In some cases, a few minutes will do.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2013

A fixed-talent mindset, expressed through the culture of the organization and demonstrated in the behavior of its leaders, prevents employees from taking steps to continuously improve themselves, their teams, and the organization as a whole.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Creating a learning culture takes conscious effort on the part of leaders. You will run into resistance because a learning culture represents a dramatic change in the values and behaviors of many organizations. It will take time and patience and perseverance.

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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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Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Unfortunately, implementation of a transformational change of this nature involves shifting thinking, changing behaviors, and driving new outcomes – preferably the sustainable variety. This is a perfect example where Change Leadership (CL) is required to expand the scope of shepherding sustainable Change in and across the organization.

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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

MARCH 1, 2016

The authors argue that organizational learning depends on overcoming these biases. Companies should take time to slow down and reflect on their actions and learn from that reflection. Companies should respect non-conforming behavior that might result in creative solutions to problems. Companies should embrace failure.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 3, 2010

Rules to control behavior proliferate, but they are inevitably ineffective because only shared values and trust can really govern behavior. Tags: Leadership Organization Culture Organizational Learning accountability active disengagement engagement leadership trust. Mistrust is dangerous and expensive.

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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. Evaluation Leadership Organizational Learning Aetna Big Data knowledge wisdom'

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Yet, book reading is a very important method of learning and self-development and should be part of any leader's routine. Most of us must couple our reading with discussions of the ideas with others and practice, practice, practice of the application of ideas before reading a book can shape our behavior.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 9, 2010

Businesses do not have to be as open as a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation, but more transparency might have prevented the scandalous behavior of companies whose demise was do to legal problems, such as Enron, WorldCom, and Bernard L. But that doesn't mean that organizations from any sector can't learn from the best of them.

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Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2020

The role of the BP is to participate in senior leadership forecasts and decisions, then act as a mechanical transmission box and deploy the information and directives toward the learning function so that it can act accordingly. Read more: Best practices on measuring the impact of organizational learning.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

New positive behaviors. Challenging long-held organizational assumptions. The way in which most organizational learning budgets are allocated implies that development of people leaders is more important — and therefore a better investment — than investing in technical groups. Delivery design is also very important.

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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. Through these behaviors, learners create and maintain a favorable impression. OLP theory makes seven assumptions of organizational learners.

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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. Learning lessons.

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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. Today, resources are too precious.

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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

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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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. I also like to look through non-discipline materials to see what is going on in the wider world and how it may apply to the learning environment.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

A learning culture isn’t a program; it’s all of these things, behaviors by managers and employees, and more. Schein's Definition of Culture in Organizational Culture and Leadership , “ …says that culture consists of the values, basic assumptions, beliefs, expected behaviors, and norms of an organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Each approach to evaluation of training has something to contribute to assessing the impact of formal training on employee learning. The real value is in organizational learning from evaluation. Evaluation in a learning culture can be and should be a tool for learning.

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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. In a busy day when we are multi-tasking, these app alerts try to get our attention and encourage us to use the apps.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 26, 2015

When learning begins, ideas emerge. Adopt the following cornerstone behavior of a learning organization. Communication Employee Engagement Leadership Learning Culture Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Menlo Innovations Richard Sheridan' Someone suggests trying something.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

If you want employees to be customer-focused, values-based, data-driven, innovative, and team-oriented, then they need learning interventions that will help them develop these strategic behaviors.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 24, 2015

Ask about examples of these behaviors in their work. They want people with the ability to learn a job and adapt as the job changes, which it will. It’s learning ability. We assess that using structured behavioral interviews that we validate to make sure they’re predictive. More and more companies are looking for learners.

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Litmos

APRIL 30, 2019

In Implementing E-Learning , Jay Cross and Lance Dublin suggested that implementing eLearning was an organizational change. And, it turns out, this is true for training and likely all organizational learning interventions. The first thing is that leadership has to have a clear vision of what’s needed and why.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 23, 2011

While better than nothing, for many training programs (as well as for coaching, mentoring, simulations, self-directed learning, etc.), First of all, there is low correlation among the four levels (reaction, learning, behavior, and results). Fourth , the outcomes of leadership training cannot be fully anticipated.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 10, 2012

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. Learning is everybody’s business whether at the individual, team, or organization level. Operative word.

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WalkMe Training Station

APRIL 24, 2016

Organizational Learning. This all begins with organizational learning, which refers not only to the acquisition of new knowledge, but also an increase in the ability to apply new knowledge to improve performance. The Learning Organization. Yet, internal changes are a major driver for the need to adapt as well.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

An absence of clear and specific organizational goals and how organizational learning can enable those goals can be a barrier to fostering an organizational culture of learning. All learning programs must be closely tied to business goals, or they are not worth implementing. Lack of Incentive to Change.

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