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Organizational Learning in the Age of Ideas

The Performance Improvement Blog

There are a number of core Steam Engine behaviors which actively prevent or destroy the things that modern organizations know that they most need from their employees – engagement, commitment and creativity, amongst others. A culture of command-and-control is a barrier to organizational learning.

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Organizational learning

Ed App

When a company supports an “open” organizational climate and feedback in support of organizational learning, and when it includes management in the educational process, we are talking about a learning organization. Organizational learning is important for innovation and is a bridge between work and creativity.

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Assessing Your Organizational Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

For example, David Garvin and Amy Edmondson created an assessment tool to look for: a supportive learning environment, concrete learning processes and practices, and leadership behavior that provides reinforcement. He writes that the organization survey process.

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10 Principles of Organizational Learning DNA

The Performance Improvement Blog

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. Leaders foster this behavior by recognizing the effort and the learning even if the results are unsatisfactory.

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Learning Ethical Behavior in the Workplace

The Performance Improvement Blog

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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Using VR as a tool for behavior analysis

STRIVR

Learning retention statistics show that the average learner forgets 70% of what they learn within an hour and 90% within a week — unless efforts are made to help them retain it. The Learning Guild, a NYC-based community that supports research into organizational learning — calls this “the dirty secret of corporate training.”

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Best practices on measuring the impact of organizational learning

Matrix

These will quantify impact by targeting specific attitudes and behaviors and quantifying the extent to which they are changed or altered. Measuring the impact of organizational learning is important. The post Best practices on measuring the impact of organizational learning appeared first on MATRIX Blog.