The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

However, they do have to believe that people can learn and change, they have to care about their own learning, and they have to value the development of the people they supervise. If they have these beliefs and values, then managers can contribute significantly to learning in their organizations.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2014

In this environment, people need to be continually figuring out different ways to learn, whether that be individually using new technology, or in teams that are trying to become more effective, or as the whole organization learning how to communicate, how to use resources more efficiently, or how to make better decisions.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I don’t know if John Baldoni intended his latest leadership book to be about learning, but that’s exactly what it is about. Through other leaders’ stories and through his own experiences, Baldoni describes what outstanding leaders learn in order to be effective. He has an acronym for it: MOXIE.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

Courses, books, articles, videos, and online practice groups can be accessed according to the learning needs of each employee. What other major trends do you see that will shape the future of employee learning? Tools of a Learning Organization. Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork Training'

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 6, 2011

Organizational dashboards have become a popular tool for monitoring performance. The Dashboard Spy presents some examples of performance measures that hospitals are tracking on their dashboards. The new governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, has implemented a dashboard to track the State’s performance in the area of education.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 23, 2011

This situation requires careful planning of an organizational communication strategy. Our book offers suggestions and explains the principles that should guide managers through this situation and other similar challenges to effective communication. . What would you do? How would you ensure buy-in from all of the stakeholders?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 9, 2014

Smith (author of The Wisdom of Teams ) writes in the Forward to the book, Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practice : Today, you cannot avoid human questions like these: What must I learn next? What do I need to be learning in order to be more productive? How can we learn best?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

But people who don't see their actions as experiments, and those who don't know how to reason carefully from data, will continue to learn less well from their own experiences than those who do. To me, experimentation is an essential aspect of organizational learning. It’s action learning.

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Paradiso

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This Online Training management software will reduce your workload, and you’ll save time, which will improve staff performance. Employee engagement, retention, and overall performance significantly impact by training. With its mobile capabilities, it facilitates learning at any time or at any place. Conclusion.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 21, 2014

Clawson in their chapter in the book, Creating a Learning Culture , write this about competition and learning: Today it seems that organizations need to be able to do more than just adapt: they must become agile in the face of constantly changing conditions. Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Functional units collaborate by sharing learning and best practices with each other. Managers and their direct reports frequently discuss what each needs to do to improve performance. We want to find out what they know and what they need to learn. And people realize that facilitating learning doesn’t necessarily take much time.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I expect they’re seeing more info dump/knowledge test, more and more ‘ click to learn more ‘, more tarted-up drill-and-kill. What is the most significant change technology has made to organizational learning in the past decade? What are the most significant challenges facing organizational learning today?

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In a podcast produced for ATD, I explain why organizations need to change from this “training culture” to a “learning culture”. And in the online workshop that I facilitate for ATD titled, Essentials of Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , we talk about what you can do to develop a learning culture in your organization.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

By combining the power of the human brain with technology in a way that facilitates work, collaboration and communication, leaders can turn learning into multifaceted performance support. Survival requires continual innovation, and at the core is learning faster than everyone else. Digital technologies are the exact opposite.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 5, 2018

I’ve used this quip quite a bit, as it’s essentially the rationale for the Revolution book. It’s about the state of Learning & Development, and sums up one perspective fairly succinctly: L&D isn’t doing near what it could and should be, and what it is doing it’s doing badly.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Maybe Apple allowed smart people to act smart, but most companies set up cultural barriers that prevent people from learning and applying that learning to improving organizational performance. Chris Argyris referred to these “stupid” behaviors as “organizational defenses”.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2013

a new book by Richard Sheridan, Co-Founder and CEO of Menlo, we read how his company makes joy the center of its business model. . One of the things I like about the book is that Sheridan lets the reader in on things they did with employees, with processes, and with clients that didn’t go well. In Joy, Inc. ,

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

The culture of traditional, hierarchical organizations does not allow for the scope and speed of learning, adaptation, and innovation that is needed to compete and be successful in today’s environment. Only then can you determine what needs to change in order to create a culture that supports learning, adaptation, and innovation. .

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

I have been deviating from the key themes of this blog, i.e., learning, performance, training and collaboration, for some time now. They are as much a part of me as all things learning. With today’s post, I am back on the theme of learning and its impact on performance—personal and organizational.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In a new book titled, Getting Unstuck ( Download a free chapter.), Leadership Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork Getting Unstuck learning Ralph Jacobson' The statements are paradoxes that confront every leader in organizations today.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Four). . They can call a co-worker who has already learned what is needed, talk to an expert, or search an interactive site for the latest ideas from other people. The pull model of learning is performance-based.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In 1994, The Learning Alliance was published. This book, by Rob Brinkerhoff and myself, made the case that HRD (human resource development) was changing dramatically and that the key to employee learning had shifted from the training department to the relationship (i.e.,

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Learnnovators

APRIL 18, 2014

He integrates creativity, cognitive science, and technology to lead development of strategic solutions including award-winning online content, educational computer games, and websites, as well as adaptive, mobile, and performance support systems. How do we ensure learning faster than everyone else? How exciting is the scenario?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 11, 2014

Transfer of learning to the workplace continues to be a vexing problem for organizations. Twenty-two years ago Mary Broad and John Newstrom published their landmark book, Transfer of Training , in which they argued that not much training gets applied in the workplace. Sadly, not much has changed since then.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

These changes are having an enormous impact on what and how people need to learn. In a book by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson titled, “The Second Machine Age,” the authors describe the situation this way: …as computers get more powerful, companies have less need for some kinds of workers.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Only a fourth of respondents to a McKinsey survey said that their training programs made a measurable difference in business performance. I wrote about this lack of training impact almost 20 years ago in a book that I co-authored with Robert O. So why are organizations resistant to involving senior leaders in supporting learning?

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Learnnovators

APRIL 16, 2014

He integrates creativity, cognitive science, and technology to lead development of strategic solutions including award-winning online content, educational computer games, and websites, as well as adaptive, mobile, and performance support systems. How do we ensure learning faster than everyone else? How exciting is the scenario?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Improving the method of employee training is only one of several factors critical to achieving sustained   employee performance. We often hear about major strides companies are making to improve the delivery of training but this change won’t mean much for the business unless organizational issues are addressed, also.

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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.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2015

In their recently published book, titled Leading Innovation and Change , Larry Smith and Al Blixt write: The forces of change are multidirectional and inescapable, especially if you are in a leadership position. They know how to teach but they don’t necessarily know how to learn as organizations.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 12, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Five). Plugging in to what she needed to learn was as direct and fast as the screenwriters could imagine…. You need to give performance feedback in a help­ful and productive way. That’s not a typo—98 percent.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Four). . They can call a co-worker who has already learned what is needed, talk to an expert, or search an interactive site for the latest ideas from other people. The pull model of learning is performance-based.

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