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LearnTrends: Reinventing Organizational Learning

Experiencing eLearning

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&#. If you don’t know the solution & need to network/collaborate to find it, that’s learning.

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Expert Advice

CLO Magazine

Many people mistakenly think that learning group advisers need to be the extreme experts in their field. People are often inclined to look for the top expert to answer their questions, but this overlooks an entire middle area of advisers who might be a better fit. The Experience Continuum.

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What Bothers Chief Learning Officers?

The Performance Improvement Blog

I’m especially interested in knowing the challenges of these leaders because I’m co-founder of Learning to be Great™, an online marketplace designed to connect leaders with tools and experts who can help them be successful in their jobs. CLOs worry about…. Managers not providing the attention and support that learners need.

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The new frontier: Why visionary CLOs are switching focus to developing technical teams rather than people managers

CLO Magazine

This trend is seeing early adopter organizations in the vanguard of a shift to rebalance the annual learning budget toward developing technical experts in nontechnical capabilities. A western Reserve Bank is building nontechnical skills among its super technical financial experts. Organizational innovation. Attraction.

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Organizations Don't Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

Through research conducted over the past decade across a wide range of industries, we have drawn this conclusion: Biases cause people to focus too much on success, take action too quickly, try too hard to fit in, and depend too much on experts. The authors argue that organizational learning depends on overcoming these biases.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

This emphasis on formal training is a barrier to learning and change. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture, trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

Part of the learning leader’s job is to develop organizational learning strategies. For one thing, organizations aren’t reviewing their learning and development strategies very often. It’s higher where all learning activities are separate from the HR function with different reporting lines to the C-suite.