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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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Adaptability is the new efficiency

CLO Magazine

Each day presented a new challenge, as staff quickly learned that standard operating practices and procedures didn’t work in an environment where crises and disruptive change thwarted efforts to get the job done. Problem solving processes are tied to organizational learning. Prevent burnout with sustainable adaptability.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

All industries are undergoing enormous change, mostly due to new technologies, globalization, and a very diverse workforce. For example, in the hospitality industry smartphones put scheduling and reservations at our fingertips, literally. The industry will continue to evolve dramatically. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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3 reasons external benchmarking is bad for corporate learning

CLO Magazine

By framing learning as a replicable commodity, the entire learning ecosystem loses much-needed innovation. First, when organizational learning is great, it is highly contextual. The post 3 reasons external benchmarking is bad for corporate learning appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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6 learning strategies to address pandemic-triggered trends

CLO Magazine

Simultaneously, they quickly redesigned major training initiatives to ensure uninterrupted learning and growth during a time of unprecedented change. The changes ushered in by COVID-19 impacted the L&D industry in these ways and more. Sharpening crisis and change management skills.

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

CLO Magazine

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. Challenging long-held organizational assumptions.

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Listen: Researcher Sarah Kimmel on the future of the CLO role

CLO Magazine

The scope of learning in the organization is growing, and sometimes shrinking, as a result. There’s a creeping sense of unease in the CLO role, with the future both uncertain and full of opportunity. It’s understandable if learning executives are feeling a little bit shaky. Photo by @WillByington. Sarah: Right.

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