The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 21, 2012

What are the tools of organizational learning? As I’ve stated in a previous blog post , a high performing organization needs a comprehensive approach to learning and a set of tools to facilitate learning. A training program, or an educational event, or even a CEO’s speech about the importance of learning is not enough.

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Learnnovators

DECEMBER 13, 2015

The usual culprits are the hapless organizational culture closely followed by hierarchy and leadership lethargy. We have become accustomed to blaming the culture of an organization for the failure of any initiative, and more so when the change calls for redefining and re-imagining how people work and interact.

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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. A learning culture is an environment in which learning how to learn is valued and accepted.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 11, 2013

What isn’t discussed much is how colleges and universities need to change in order to increase value for students and society. And there are other pressures on higher education institutions to change and improve. They must create an organizational routine of feedback, reflection, and active social learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In a blog post titled, "Building a Productive Learning Culture", Thomas Handcock and Jean Martin say that businesses, because of need and demand, are increasing employee participation in training but failing to increase productivity. The authors believe that a culture change is required.

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Ed App

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Today’s global environment is characterized by the constant change of organizations, which cannot be successful if employees are not aware of the need for change and if they do not adopt a strategy promoting continual evolving. Organizational learning is important for innovation and is a bridge between work and creativity.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The need for creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is critical given the rise of digital technology, the rapid pace of change, the complexities of globalization, and the growing development demands of a diverse workforce. To try to change a culture in a company that size is a daunting task.”.

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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. In a learning culture, people are continually sharing needed information with the people who need to know.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g.,

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

One of the most critical aspects of this adaptation is ensuring that employees have the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in the changing landscape. Large enterprises may need additional resources to respond swiftly to changes, making it crucial that they adapt with the help of a comprehensively managed learning ecosystem.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Most companies today have a “training culture”. ATD’s 2016 State of the Industry report concludes: …the traditional, instructor-led, face-to-face classroom continues to play a crucial role, and it was still the delivery mechanism for 51 percent of learning hours used in 2015.

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eLearning Industry

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

An agile culture is a flexible culture. A culture that learns and adapts quickly to change all whilst delivering value—something which is specifically valuable to your eLearning organization. Use organizational learning to constantly create or learn new skills and apply new knowledge across the company.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

A force-field analysis helps us with a problem by modeling the factors that drive people toward achieving a particular change (i.e., learning) and the factors that block people from achieving that change. What are the factors that drive and block learning in your organization?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 30, 2017

Ford signals willingness to change to boost stock price ( USA Today ). According to these news stories, three venerable companies are making major changes that they believe will help them move into the future and implement a winning business strategy. It’s more about developing the right culture than implementing the right strategy.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 24, 2012

“Organizational learning” and “learning organization” are terms that continue to be misused. It seems like these days any business, nonprofit, or government agency that provides training and education to its employees calls itself a learning organization. I interpret “environment” to mean organizational culture.

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Learnnovators

DECEMBER 13, 2015

The post BECOMING A SOCIAL BUSINESS – BEYOND CULTURE CHANGE appeared first on Learnnovators.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Recently, I read two posts that to me reflected the changing nature of work -- from divergently different perspectives. One was from the field of architecture and the other was by Harold Jarche on workplace and learning. What can L&D do to foster the necessary change? Given below are excerpts from both.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

All industries are undergoing enormous change, mostly due to new technologies, globalization, and a very diverse workforce. These services are competition for established companies and are changing the industry and guest expectations. Any company, faced with these kinds of disruptive forces must keep learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

These are my live blogged notes from Jay Cross & Clark Quinn’s LearnTrends session on Reinventing Organizational Learning. Article they wrote for CLO mag: “Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer&#. Need to be more agile & change. Broaden definition of learning. improve learning process.

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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. Gary Neilson and Jaime Estupiñán have been studying and writing about organizational DNA for the past 10 years.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2015

Higher Education institutions have resisted change, and for good reason. Some exceptions exist but these institutions have only tinkered around the edges change: shortening or lengthening academic terms; eliminating grades and tests; creating interdisciplinary programs; giving credit for life experience; or adding online courses and degrees.

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Learnnovators

MAY 4, 2015

Recently, I read two posts that to me reflected the changing nature of work — from divergently different perspectives. One was from the field of architecture and the other was by Harold Jarche on workplace and learning. What can L&D do to foster the necessary change? Given below are excerpts from both.

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WalkMe Training Station

MAY 30, 2016

The first article was “ How ‘Learning Organizations’ Beat Natural Selection” . With organizational learning, teams work together to help each other learn, and to ensure that nobody is left behind in the overall progress and achievement of the target goals.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

Then I describe what must change if your answer is “yes” to any of these questions: you need to develop an organizational culture that supports continuous learning by everyone from the CEO to the hourly employee. HR and training professionals, by themselves, cannot develop this kind of culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 23, 2015

In the second part of a two-part article I wrote for BusinessThinker.com titled, Learning Culture: A Workplace Environment for Success , I describe what organizations can do to develop a learning culture. Employee Engagement Leadership Learning Culture Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork'

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 2, 2015

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart ’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g.,

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 7, 2015

During the first session of a workshop I facilitate for ATD, one of the participants asked, “What does a learning culture look like in an electrical power generation plant, where most of the training is for the purpose of meeting industry regulations?” They need repetition, practice, feedback, and reflection.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

A learning management system (LMS) is considered to be a necessary tool in most complex organizations today, especially those industries, like nuclear energy, airlines, and healthcare, where monitoring compliance with government-imposed training requirements is essential. These are behaviors of a learning culture.

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Matrix

AUGUST 15, 2019

Because there is a lot of transformation in organizations as a whole and in their demands when it comes to L&D, programs have to evolve, become innovative and tailored to the specific needs of an ever changing audience. Ultimately, this will lead to a learning culture that is data driven. Evaluations have to be optimized.

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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. Gary Neilson and Jaime Estupiñán have been studying and writing about organizational DNA for the past 10 years.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

From that day on, my thinking changed. The onboarding experience should provide opportunities for fresh trainees to imbibe the culture of the organization, preparing them to be productive from day one. First-time and middle managers together form the most crucial slice of the organizational pyramid. Life is like that.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 5, 2015

I have argued in previous blog posts that organizations need a learning culture because training is not sufficient to develop the necessary competencies of 21rst century workers. For one thing, the learning from training events is often not transferred to the workplace.

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Allen Interactions

JULY 8, 2020

Today’s pandemic, covid-19 environment with uncertainty and instability abound, creating, collecting, and sharing organizational knowledge can be a struggle. Organizational learning requires continuous reflection and a willingness to be flexible and agile.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

It is changing from a phone company competing with other telecoms (e.g., Randall Stephenson, the CEO of AT&T, is leading this change through their “Vision 2020.”. Clearly, he and his executives recognize the need for employee learning and a culture that supports that learning.

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Learnnovators

MAY 3, 2015

Recently, I read two posts that to me reflected the changing nature of work — from divergently different perspectives. One was from the field of architecture and the other was by Harold Jarche on workplace and learning. What can L&D do to foster the necessary change? Given below are excerpts from both.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The culture-change bandwagon keeps rolling. In an effort to make work more meaningful and engaging, companies are implementing dramatic changes in their policies and structure. In each case, the policy changes should be treated as experiments with learning as a goal.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 26, 2015

How We Built a Workplace People Love , explains what small companies and departments in large organizations can do to create a learning culture. He addresses fear, reward systems, hiring, on-boarding, learning, making mistakes, and experimenting. Their culture would not change until they dismantled this reward system.

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