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

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?” We hear about the disasters (e.g.,

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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

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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KnowledgeStar

MARCH 16, 2015

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If this post describes your organization, you need to make the transition to a learning culture. They need to acquire new information, new skills, and develop new abilities and they need to do this in a way in which that learning will be retained and applied immediately. They can no longer rely on formal training events.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

If you’re looking for examples of companies that are striving to create and sustain a learning culture, PwC ( PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) of Canada should be on your list. All good practices of a learning culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

In this “rapidly changing business landscape”, we need individuals and organizations that know how to learn. Those institutions that can learn quickly and constantly will be competitive and will survive. And organizations need to create opportunities for individuals, teams, and the enterprise to learn how to learn fast and effectively.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 3, 2015

Because tools and the way they are used reflect the particular accumulated insights of communities, it is not possible to use a tool appropriately without understanding the community or culture in which it is used. We have the technology that can support situated learning in companies; that can merge learning and acting.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As organizational learning continues to evolve, it’s time to dust off a learning method that has the power to reshape how knowledge is cultivated and shared and addresses employee well-being : community-based learning. Think of it as developing a series of professional development events that members can look forward to.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Fifth Consecutive Great Place to Work Certification As we entered September 2023, we marked our fifth consecutive year achieving the esteemed Great Place To Work® Certification, reflecting our unwavering commitment to a culture built on trust and excellence. It was a vibrant and heartwarming gathering.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2016

Co-creating organizational culture can reinvigorate organizations by fully engaging employees, improving performance and increasing productivity. Healthy organizational culture often has clear guiding principles or values, which help employees thrive in today’s ever-changing world. It helps each individual feel ownership.

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Matrix

OCTOBER 26, 2017

One of the most frequent pieces of advice given to learning & development professionals who seek to make their mark on the organization is that they should lay the ground for building a learning culture. As long as the employees are people, they will be learning something almost every day; it’s what they naturally do.

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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. And they have become quite good at doing events. The 0% Solution to Learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Encourage them to learn together from their successes and from their failures. Make performance improvement an ongoing process, not an annual event. Human Resource Development Learning Culture Management Organizational Learning Samuel Culbert SHRM'

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With anywhere from 40 to 90 percent of workers considering changing their jobs , organizations must show a true commitment to cultivating a culture that genuinely cares about employee wellbeing. Gone are the days when a company culture could be established with perks like fun furniture or free food.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

One of the major barriers to learning is a culture that does not value learning. Producing and selling things is valued, but not learning. Supervisors don’t release direct reports from their workplace to attend workshops and other learning events. I have described these barriers in a previous post.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Push training is a siloed, top-down, management-driven approach that sends people to formal training events where they receive nice-to-know information—as in, it will be nice to know someday. People are not connected to one another during or after the training event, and do not collaborate. PUSH TRAINING CULTURE.

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Limestone Learning

MAY 2, 2023

PT: “Survey Conversations”: Five Practices to Make Your Virtual and In-person Training Remarkable A methodology called “Survey Conversation” combines five practices into a win-win for all parties: Timing — ask key questions before your event. Frequency — generate huge WIIFM for your attendees. Internal Incentives — using (free) feedback.

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Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2020

The learning strategy is built to sustain professional development and build capabilities across the organization in due time and in a way that is cost-effective. A lot of times, the learning function is also used as a communication channel. Learning specialists become ambassadors of the company’s culture and values.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Push training is a siloed, top-down, management-driven approach that sends people to formal training events where they receive nice-to-know information—as in, it will be nice to know someday. People are not connected to one another during or after the training event, and do not collaborate. PUSH TRAINING CULTURE.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 3, 2018

With the publication of my new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy , I have continued to focus my blog posts on a manager’s role in supporting continuous learning for all employees in the workplace. And I have examined an employee’s responsibility for continuous learning in the Knowledge Economy.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Each year, the Chief Learning Officer of the Year Award is presented to an individual learning executive who delivers the most exemplary development and guidance, is a strategic business partner and provides essential leadership to the organizational learning and development function. A culture of belonging.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 28, 2022

PT: Connecting Learning to Doing Organizational learning is an ongoing exercise in Change Management. It’s time to go beyond points, badges and leaderboards — gamification must evolve from being a few loose game mechanics sprinkled on an event to a more integral part of the design from start to finish.

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Webanywhere

AUGUST 23, 2023

Enter the realm of Corporate Learning Job Roles – a fascinating tapestry of positions that work synergistically to craft enriching learning experiences for employees. From orchestrating seamless training events to curating engaging digital content, these roles form the backbone of modern workforce development.

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Learning Pool

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

There are few things in learning theory that everyone in learning and development agrees on. Let me rephrase that: there is almost nothing in learning theory that everyone agrees on. We have a disputatious culture. Very few organizational learning programs make use of the spacing effect, currently. .

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

That might meet the requirements of a regulatory agency, but don’t expect your employees to learn “…to do the next right thing.” A training event, classroom or virtual, is no way to develop ethical behavior in a workforce. BP’s oil spill. GM’s faulty ignition switches. Takata’s airbag ruptures. Volkswagen’s emissions fraud.

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Matrix

DECEMBER 17, 2020

These benefits are easy to pinpoint: constant quality improvements, a strong learning culture, and increased productivity. A culture of psychological safety ensures that employees are more engaged and thus generate lower turnover rates. However, it takes time and sustained effort to build such a culture. Wrapping up.

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Time to Know

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Clients and managers are more demanding; markets are adapting, and industries are digitizing, so the needs, features, and overall learning culture is thriving. Laura Overton – Founder of Learning Changemakers , Industry Analyst, and Speaker.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We believe — having worked across many industries, geographies and years — that too many organizations around the world have “learning teams” dedicated to creating theater. Teaching is learning twice,” said French writer Joseph Joubert; we believe that teaching is one of the most underused levers for leadership.

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Learning Pool

MARCH 14, 2022

When learning really matters, we quite naturally use spaced practice. . Even a simple program of this nature could do a great deal to make learning more effective. One thing this five-part program brings home is the fact that learning is a process, not an event.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 3, 2023

Discover the enchantment of building a themed gamified learning event and unlock the full potential of analogue games in adult education and corporate training. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to revolutionize your learning approach and engage your participants in a whole new way. Thursday, July 20, 2023, 12 p.m.–1

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Best of eLearning Learning. Upcoming Online eLearning Events. Social Learning for Management Development: Introducing CoachingOurselves. The Big Question: How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organisation? Clive on Learning , November 12, 2009. Organizational Learning (9).

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This is something close to my heart as I am in fact Senior Director of Collaboration in the Internet Time Alliance , and I have been working recently with a few organisations as they grapple with what it means to support a collaboration culture across the whole of their business. I didn’t mention the CLO but I certainly should have.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 20, 2015

In a push training model, learning is test-based. The push training culture was developed to serve the old Industrial Economy that no longer exists. The shelf life of both, compared to today, was almost glacial, and most workers did not need to learn volumes of information to perform their jobs. Figure 1: Push vs. Pull. .

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 13, 2015

Formal training continues to take up too much of organizational resources. Formal, event-based training (courses, workshops, seminars, MOOCs) has a place in corporate learning but only a small place and only for employee learning that can’t be achieved in other, more timely, less costly, and more effective ways.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Each area is critical today in building an organization and an organizational culture that will not only attract the best employees but will also provide them with the necessary platform to give their best. However, one thing I am sure of is that we have to experiment, fail fast and learn from failures.

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