The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 27, 2014

Changing an organization’s culture is not easy. It doesn’t happen simply because of the pronouncements of the CEO, or a reorganization of business units, or by conducting an organizational pulse survey, or by hiring new managers. Culture is much too complex; it’s the how and why of what an organization does internally and externally.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In the online course that I teach for ASTD on Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , one of the questions I hear most often is, “How can I change the culture in my company when there is little support from management and our unions resist any change that might affect the work rules?”

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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

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

MAY 27, 2016

That “Steam Engine” mindset, as described by Jonathan Gifford and Mark Powell in their new book, My Steam Engine Is Broken: Taking the organization from the industrial era to the Age of Ideas , creates a command-and-control culture that has become a barrier to success in companies today. Without these qualities, an organization can’t learn.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 11, 2013

They must create an organizational routine of feedback, reflection, and active social learning. They need to learn how to examine what they do, compare that to what needs to be done, reflect on what they have learned from their actions, and make the needed changes in the organization.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2013

One of these “myths” that grabbed my attention is, “Performance management can be improved by installing the right software to manage performance data or changing the way people are rated.” I’ve written previously about the importance of creating a learning culture in organizations.

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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

APRIL 4, 2013

Leaders today face many challenges in facilitating organization performance improvement. Fifteen of these problems are listed in a survey of organizational performance challenges. Survey of Organization Performance Challenges. Organizational Learning Tools. Tools of a Learning Organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I don’t know if John Baldoni intended his latest leadership book to be about learning, but that’s exactly what it is about. Through other leaders’ stories and through his own experiences, Baldoni describes what outstanding leaders learn in order to be effective. He has an acronym for it: MOXIE.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

The table below lists forces that commonly drive learning in organizations and the factors that block learning in organizations. Lack of Leadership Support. Work vs. Learning. Strategic Goals. Limited Resources. Technology. Competition. Compliance. Fear of Failure. Need for Agility. Lack of Alignment. Creativity.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 21, 2015

Deloitte has identified “leadership development” as a major challenge for HR leaders in 2015. From this study, they conclude: Organizations around the world are struggling to strengthen their leadership pipelines, yet over the past year businesses fell further behind, particularly in their ability to develop Millennial leaders.

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Infopro Learning

JULY 5, 2019

While thinking of employees with the highest potential, leaders likely go straight to top performers. In this era of digital disruption, business requires leadership that can deliver excellence. Leadership training is an essential component of succession planning at every company. It is vital to keep your ‘best’ talent.

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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. Learning is rewarded.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In "Part One" of this post, I presented some situations in which espoused values (not necessarily values in use) play a role and examples of instinctive reactions that indicate either the presence or absence of a learning culture. . Both reactions are reasonable, but one is indicative of a learning culture and the other is not.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

In "Part One" of this post, I presented some situations in which espoused values (not necessarily values in use) play a role and examples of instinctive reactions that indicate either the presence or absence of a learning culture. . Both reactions are reasonable, but one is indicative of a learning culture and the other is not.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Leadership Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork Getting Unstuck learning Ralph Jacobson' What paradoxes do you face in your role and how do you handle them?

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

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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. Developing future leaders is crucial for the sustainability of any organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 30, 2017

This reminds us of the warning attributed to Peter Drucker : “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Strategy is important, but given the kind of transformation that must happen in preparation for the future, creating an organization that fundamentally changes the way people are managed and learn must be the focus.

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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

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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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 12, 2016

Jessica Leitch, David Lancefield, and Mark Dawson, all of PwC UK, have identified “10 Principles of Strategic Leadership” that, when implemented, create the conditions for the development of strategic leaders. According to the authors, to create this learning culture, share responsibility so that employees can experience risk-taking.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2015

In their recently published book, titled Leading Innovation and Change , Larry Smith and Al Blixt write: The forces of change are multidirectional and inescapable, especially if you are in a leadership position. They know how to teach but they don’t necessarily know how to learn as organizations.

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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. Mike Hyatt makes this case in a blog post.

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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. We’ve also embedded EWP into other key people processes, such as recruitment, on-boarding and performance management.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

An inclusive learning pyramid would help employees at every level to learn the relevant skills and grow to the next level. Robust offerings would bring together the technology, behavioral and functional skills needed for the employee to perform their role effectively based on the business context and the need of the organization.

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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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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

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?”

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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 18, 2012

If you’re not going to evaluate a leadership development program, don’t do the program! I’m talking about a systematic, evidence-based look at why it was done, what was done, how it was done, what happened as a result, how it can be improved, and what the organization learned from the process. I would add: Reinforcement of learning.

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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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