The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I did a webcast for the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) on the topic of the manager’s role in employee learning and performance improvement. The important point is that it is not enough to acquire new knowledge and skills; this learning must be applied and make a difference for the organization.

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Learnnovators

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve previously written about the need to design learning & high performance ecosystems here , and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones. I’ve captured some of these in the infographic below: 5 Ingredients of HIGH PERFORMANCE ECOSYSTEM : COMPANY CULTURE. PERFORMANCE SUPPORT.

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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

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

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. Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers.

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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

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

MAY 24, 2012

“Organizational learning” and “learning organization” are terms that continue to be misused. It seems like these days any business, nonprofit, or government agency that provides training and education to its employees calls itself a learning organization. I interpret “environment” to mean organizational culture.

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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

JULY 5, 2012

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (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. When people behave according to these prin­ciples, the enterprise is predisposed to learning at all levels.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

That’s where Managed Learning Services (MLS) solutions come in. Large enterprises may need additional resources to respond swiftly to changes, making it crucial that they adapt with the help of a comprehensively managed learning ecosystem. billion by the year 2031.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 12, 2016

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) and Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) collaborated on a study of a “culture of learning” in organizations and the impact of that culture on performance. Having a culture of learning is a hallmark of high-performance organizations.

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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

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. When people behave according to these prin­ciples, the enterprise is predisposed to learning at all levels.

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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.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 20, 2015

Do you want employees who openly discuss ways to improve performance? Then I describe what must change if your answer is “yes” to any of these questions: you need to develop an organizational culture that supports continuous learning by everyone from the CEO to the hourly employee.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Clearly, he and his executives recognize the need for employee learning and a culture that supports that learning. Unless the culture changes substantially where continuous learning is the routine of work and not seen as something you do outside of work, learning will continue to be haphazard and unconnected to results.

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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. It’s all about learning!

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 2, 2015

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart ’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g.,

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

As a proponent of a learning culture in organizations, I’m always on the lookout for methods and products that contribute to creating and sustaining that kind of culture. KnowledgeStar™ promises to deliver just-in-time, just-enough learning to make machines smart and employees smarter, increasing safety and productivity.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

So much for Human Capital Management and Learning Culture! That is to say the change in work performed and the increased value of that work. They began the research by looking for examples of companies that said they were learning cultures, where learning was continuous and supported in every aspect of organizational life.

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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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Infopro Learning

JULY 5, 2019

While thinking of employees with the highest potential, leaders likely go straight to top performers. The top leadership skill is continuous learning , including the ability to change the mental models of what it takes to be a good leader in this fast-paced business climate. It is vital to keep your ‘best’ talent.

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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

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. Incorporating structured learning routines into our working practices (e.g. All good practices of a learning culture.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 11, 2013

In the first post I explained that “packaging learning” involves organizing and wrapping up everything an individual needs to learn in a neat parcel, delivering it to them on a plate, and making sure they do it, whilst “scaffolding” is about supporting learning in many other less top-down organized ways.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If they have these beliefs and values, then managers can contribute significantly to learning in their organizations. Training professionals can certainly help managers with this, but managers are in best position to facilitate the kind of day-to-day learning that is needed in high performance organizations today.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2008

However, then the easy, and uninteresting answer, is to fall into talking about elearning, performance support, mobile, portals, knowledge management, all that stuff that makes people’s eyes glaze over if they haven’t seen the light. It’s about populating the performance ecosystem with support.

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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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From the Coleface

MARCH 31, 2022

Lockstepping makes it hard to use as an aide-memoire or performance support, because a user has to unlock/click through lots of screens to get to the screen they need. It’s ok for L&D to challenge the business to justify that a learning need is real not just perceived.

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