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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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The answer to this question is important because of the impact culture has on an organization. I like this quote attributed to Peter Drucker , “culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Culture used to be considered a byproduct of organizational life. Today, many companies are being quite intentional about culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 25, 2016

How do we know if an organization has the “DNA” that predisposes it to organizational learning? Gary Neilson and Jaime Estupinan have been studying and writing about "organizational DNA" for the past 10 years. Organizational structure facilitates learning. Information flows freely throughout organization.

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Ed App

OCTOBER 20, 2020

When a company supports an “open” organizational climate and feedback in support of organizational learning, and when it includes management in the educational process, we are talking about a learning organization. Organizational learning is important for innovation and is a bridge between work and creativity.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

The answer to this question is important because of the impact culture has on an organization. I like this quote attributed to Peter Drucker , “culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Culture used to be considered a byproduct of organizational life. Today, many companies are being quite intentional about culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

What’s the difference between a “training culture” and a “ learning culture ”? As the chart shows, in a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The only thing holding companies back from learning at the speed of change is their organizational culture which, for many, is a barrier to learning. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

How do you know your organization has a learning culture ? How will people be learning? While a learning culture is an environment that’s always being developed, certain signs indicate that you are making progress. In a learning culture…. What will you see people doing?

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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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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

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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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Recently, someone asked about an organizational learning maturity model. In my book, Revolutionize Learning & Development, I pushed for the performance ecosystem, going beyond ‘the course’ to talk about all the ways that L&D that could assist organizational learning. The first area is culture.

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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. Employees need to learn quickly. 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.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

So much information; so little time. The title "curator" used to be reserved for someone who cares for the content of large cultural institutions such as galleries, museums, and libraries. Technology allows consumers of information to also be curators of information. This is a universal dilemma of the 21 st century.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 11, 2013

Today I’m going to look at “supporting self-managed team learning”, and next time I will consider ”supporting self-managed personal and professional learning”. Team learning is essential in any organization, for as my colleague, Harold Jarche points out, quoting Peter Senge.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

As David Grebow explained in his post about The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point , unless formal training (courses, workshops, seminars, webinars, etc.) As this chart suggests, if you fail to attend to the Pivot Point, your investment in training will be wasted.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2014

A major characteristic of a learning culture is that individuals, teams, and whole organizations are constantly learning how to learn. They are learning how to acquire the knowledge and skills that they need to help the organization be successful. This is the work of twenty-first century organizations.

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WalkMe Training Station

JUNE 19, 2016

The first article was titled “How ‘Learning Organizations’ Beat Natural Selection” After detailing the importance of a learning culture within a learning organization, I would like to briefly look at several barriers to organizational learning. Stubbornness and Resistance to Change.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 24, 2015

One of the keys to creating and sustaining a learning culture is hiring people who are continuous learners and who help others learn continuously. Edgar Wilson, in a post on e.Mile , writes that a “healthy” learning culture has four features: . It’s learning ability. How do you hire for a learning culture?

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Historically, HR teams have relied on static organizational constructs and external providers to support their organizational needs. In doing so, platforms leverage the organization’s collective intelligence while ensuring individual teams adopt and apply learning resources in a local context.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 31, 2015

Imagine a company in which critical information is easily accessible on a mobile device. Equipment operators can view safety information on their smart phones when and where they need the information. They can learn how to operate and maintain a machine from their tablets. Employees report what they’ve been learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

In a discussion started by Camilla Keen on LinkedIn, she asks, “In order to find out and evaluate if a company has an effective learning culture, what would be your top ten questions?” These are my top ten but not my only questions for a company that wants to evaluate its learning culture.

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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. It’s a fundamental concept that underpins how humans learn from one another in everyday life.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

One of the concerns that worry training and learning professionals most about leading culture change in their organizations is that managers will say that they don’t have time to facilitate and support employee development. These managers don’t value learning. Who in this organization depends on me for what information?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2013

We use the energy of our anger and cynicism to fuel our work, in hopes of ending the human suffering caused by what is perhaps one of the most broken industries on the planet: information technology. But it’s not only the information technology industry that is “broken”. After reading Joy, Inc.

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Infopro Learning

JULY 5, 2019

Leaders need to make continuous changes to their own leadership development to gain the skills required for success in a given timeframe that align with the culture as well as drive the business. They need to be substantially informed of the consequences the decision will bring in the current business scenarios.

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Thinkdom

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As an L&D Manager, how frequently do you initiate new learning programs for your team? And perhaps more importantly, how often do you conduct review sessions for previous learning & development initiatives? Another important factor in learning includes attracting and holding the attention of the learners.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This resource addressed common misconceptions and provided information on real-world applications. The webinar explored microlearning’s true meaning and its application in organizational training plans. This distinction cements our role in advancing organizational learning through innovative experiential technologies.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In answering this question, the first thing managers have to understand is that continuous learning is the modus operandi for all high performance organizations. Individual, team, and enterprise performance can’t improve without learning. Learning isn’t in addition to a manager’s job; it IS a manager’s job.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

The topics ranged from the problems with performance reviews to managing temporary workers to innovation to developing a learning culture in organizations. Here are the links with a short excerpt from each post: Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture. Eight leader habits are essential to a learning culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 6, 2014

But great learning is designed by learners in collaboration with their bosses. Great learning is tailored to the needs and circumstances of the learner and supported by the culture of the organization. Great learning makes a difference in individual, team, and whole organization performance. .

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

Your organization has decided to tilt in the direction of informal learning. Masterclass for L&D managers, instructional designers, and senior instructors on the concept and implementation of informal learning. Introduction to informal learning. So now what do you do? Push vs. pull. The spectrum.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

One is personalization of learning. We have the technology now to individualize both the push and pull of information. Courses, books, articles, videos, and online practice groups can be accessed according to the learning needs of each employee. A third major trend identified by Masie is learning agility.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

But none of this is possible without learning. At its core, any high performing organization is about learning; continually using new information to become smarter, better, and more effective. Training Is Not Learning. Learning is always about managers creating an environment of openness and trust among relationships.

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LearnUpon

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Previously, workplace learning was the responsibility of the L&D department, but that is no longer the case. A successful learning strategy requires a strong organizational learning culture. Managers must take responsibility for their team’s learning and become L&D champions.

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