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 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. They want to learn! Creating a learning culture takes conscious effort on the part of leaders.

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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. Not anymore.

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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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Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2020

An adaptable workforce is paramount in ensuring long-term success and that requires a highly versatile L&D team to support any arising requirements. This makes sense, considering the department has an eminently supportive role in the organization. Read more: Moving from learning events to learning journeys with spaced repetition.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

We wrote: Companies today can no longer afford to rely on these isolated events to make a difference, whether a one-day skill-building workshop, or a year-long leadership development institute. In a learning culture, the normal behaviors, customs, expectations, and goals are all oriented towards learning and performance improvement. (p.32).

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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. This article presents a new theory of organizational learner presence and purports its applicability to practitioners and academics.

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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. Learning from evaluation depends on asking the right questions. However, the value of evaluation is not in the data.

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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

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. I agree with Hebert and I have similar concerns with having a CLO (Chief Learning Officer). Operative word.

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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.), this approach does not produce the information needed to continuously improve performance and achieve business results. Second , self-report surveys produce unreliable performance data.

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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. When people behave according to these prin­ciples, the enterprise is predisposed to learning at all levels.

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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. Limited resources – learning is not given adequate funding and support, e.g., staff are not given resources to experiment with new ideas before risking large scale implementation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

But none of this is possible without learning. At its core, any high performing organization is about learning; continually using new information to become smarter, better, and more effective. Traditional, formal training programs are often almost never the best solution to a performance deficit. .

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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. When people behave according to these prin­ciples, the enterprise is predisposed to learning at all levels.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In a learning culture , formal training is just one of many methods used to facilitate employee learning. In a learning culture, we start with the performance goal and then select the mix of methods that will help employees acquire and retain the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs they need in order to achieve those goals.

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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. Where does this boost in performance come from? In other words, inclusion describes a set of attitudes, practices, and behaviors that occur in the workplace. Learning to Move Beyond Compliance.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2018

How does someone who went to college to become a high school math teacher end up leading learning at Nordstrom? Jesse Schlueter, vice president of learning and leadership for Nordstrom, leverages her passion for numbers in her role managing the development of the retail giant’s 72,000 employees.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 24, 2015

You want people who recognize the learning needs of others and can figure out ways to support their growth as part of the day-to-day work of the organization. Edgar Wilson, in a post on e.Mile , writes that a “healthy” learning culture has four features: . Ask about examples of these behaviors in their work.

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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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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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PDG

MARCH 17, 2016

Executives can sit in important planning meetings and generate as many documents as they like; if the culture of the organization can’t or won’t support those plans, it’s going to be difficult to move forward. We can provide people with venues for learning, but we can’t make them learn (see Horse vs. Water, 1897).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 20, 2016

Acceptance of automation and creation of new work to support automation. And behavioral change is hard. Without a systematic and explicit approach, companies can, at best, change these behaviors only superficially and temporarily. Increasingly inclusive workforce with individualized work policies.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

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. The learning cognoscenti know there are no shortcuts to effective learning. Leadership training requires a similar process.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

A learning culture is an organizational culture in which beliefs, values, and artifacts support employee learning, In terms of beliefs, research is showing us that what people believe about the potential of themselves and others has a profound impact on organizations.

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PDG

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another survey , conducted in the early part of 2020, reported that “improving learning and development is a critical initiative for 86% of companies.”. Prior to the onset and during the pandemic, Performance Development Group (PDG) has witnessed and supported companies in shifting learning strategies to accommodate remote work requirements.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2018

Unless a company is making a basic change in the way it manages people, the tools will never have an impact on the way people think, act, and grow every day, and they won’t boost performance or drive business results. Yet the predominant environment supports—promotes, even—the traits listed on the left side of the list. Thoughtless.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2018

Unless a company is making a basic change in the way it manages people, the tools will never have an impact on the way people think, act, and grow every day, and they won’t boost performance or drive business results. Yet the predominant environment supports—promotes, even—the traits listed on the left side of the list. Thoughtless.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 21, 2014

Some cultures support learning more than others. Some cultures stifle learning by marginalizing the training and development function, by discouraging risk-taking, by not rewarding learning, by not allowing opportunities for informal and social learning, and by undermining performance improvement efforts.

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Limestone Learning

JUNE 28, 2019

Over her career, she’s successfully produced events, created/delivered presentations to groups of 2 to 2000, managed people and projects (local to enterprise), designed/produced and facilitated learning (digital, virtual, live), led a Human Resources department, and coached students, professionals, and entrepreneurs.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

People have different points of view of the same process, behaviors, circumstances and conditions. It’s not a surprise that our conversations often reveal conflicting ideas about the root of performance challenges. The question is: Do we see this conflict as an asset or a liability to organizational learning?

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Yet according to a 2011 article published by the Center for Creative Leadership, at least 70 percent of learning within an organization occurs outside of formal learning activities. For millennials, the new normal is defined by rapid access to information and knowledge, learning through experience and frequent feedback.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Learning organizations and the people in them learn constantly from everything they do. They use their own experience and that of others to improve their performance. They learn from their successes and also from their failures. Continuous learning is systemically built into the organization’s DNA and infrastructure.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The CEO of one of Todd’s client organizations recently told his learning leader that he wanted 1,000 leaders sent through a leadership development approach that was 20 years old, but one that he had liked when he was coming up through the ranks. So what is a learning leader to do? This was a bad request.

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