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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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

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. Emphatically not.

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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

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. Functional units collaborate by sharing learning and best practices with each other.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

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. I would add a few more barriers to organizational learn.

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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

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: 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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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. The sad fact of the matter is that many business books are bought, but few are read, and even fewer actually contribute to improved performance of leaders and managers.

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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

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 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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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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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The global pandemic has demonstrated in many industries how the ability of technical teams to pivot, innovate and react quickly to changing circumstances is often the difference between organizational success and failure. New positive behaviors. Challenging long-held organizational assumptions. Retention of top technical talent.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action-learning permeates all team activity. . Performance reviews are focused on learning and capacity building. These are signs of a learning culture. How we do things around here.”).

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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

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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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Organizational evaluation and performance improvement are essentially about asking the right questions. What critical performance variables are you tracking? Tags: Leadership Organizational Learning Training robert simons Seven Strategy Questions strategy Working Knowledge.

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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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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

MARCH 26, 2015

He addresses fear, reward systems, hiring, on-boarding, learning, making mistakes, and experimenting. We must come to grips with the role that "manufactured fear" plays as a technique for increasing performance in teams. There can be some short term benefits, near term gains, but in the long run, this destroys a learning organization.

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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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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 22, 2011

He designs and develops training programs and performance improvement tools for front-line sales employees. He has also designed learning for the transportation industry and military. What might organizational learning look like 10 years from now? James Hill is an instructional designer at The Home Depot Inc.

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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. Diversity Is Good for Business.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

They’re more likely to say that their organizations are performing well in the market, as determined by self-reports in the combined areas of revenue growth, market share, profitability, and customer satisfaction. It is highly likely that high performing organizations choose to use coaching more than low performing organizations.

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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. Work-learning dichotomy – producing and selling things is valued whereas learning is merely tolerated, e.g., little involvement of supervisors in the training of their direct-reports.

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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. . It’s the Culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

They believe that nobody is fixed in their abilities, that it is human nature to want to enhance competencies and improve performance. Organizational structure facilitates learning. Managers foster this behavior by recognizing the effort and new insights even if the results are unsatisfactory. Everyone is reflective.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

Managers do this with measures of employee performance. In evaluating leadership training managers might look at the results of employee engagement surveys. Reducing costs and increasing revenue are affected by many organizational and environmental factors beyond improved accounting practices.

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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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