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 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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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

MARCH 15, 2016

Not Role of Managers. will help the organization achieve its goals; not being clear about what needs to be learned and why; managers who do not involve themselves in the learning process; no opportunity to apply new learning in the workplace; and no accountability on the part of employees and managers for learning and performance improvement.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

That’s where Managed Learning Services (MLS) solutions come in. With their extensive knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies, managed learning services providers help organizations develop and implement strategic decisions in uncertain market conditions.

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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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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

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. . What did you learn about developing new products, about collaboration, and about yourself?

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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. Managers are the gatekeepers to individual and team learning. I write: Start with managers.

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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

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

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. . What did you learn about developing new products, about collaboration, and about yourself?

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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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Infopro Learning

JULY 5, 2019

While thinking of employees with the highest potential, leaders likely go straight to top performers. 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. It is vital to keep your ‘best’ talent.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2013

While I’m not aware of research that ties training-involved managers with their own success in companies, I am aware of very successful companies who value highly the role of managers in training and learning and recognize and reward that involvement. Google has a culture in which people ask questions and learn from the answers.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Managers in any organization, whether nonprofit, government, or business, play a pivotal role in creating and sustaining learning. However, they do have to believe that people can learn and change, they have to care about their own learning, and they have to value the development of the people they supervise.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 26, 2015

. - How We Built a Workplace People Love , explains what small companies and departments in large organizations can do to create a learning culture. He addresses fear, reward systems, hiring, on-boarding, learning, making mistakes, and experimenting. Their culture would not change until they dismantled this reward system.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In doing so, platforms leverage the organization’s collective intelligence while ensuring individual teams adopt and apply learning resources in a local context. At the same time, individual team learning and innovation can be shared with the broader enterprise in a virtuous circle of learning, development, and performance at scale.

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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. Let’s pivot to the practicalities of bringing these communities to life within your organization.

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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. Here, I will explore the role of L&D in the VUCA ( volatility , uncertainty , complexity and ambiguity ) world.

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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. You want people who recognize the learning needs of others and can figure out ways to support their growth as part of the day-to-day work of the organization.

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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. Traditional, formal training programs are often almost never the best solution to a performance deficit. . It’s the Culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

In part, this is because of an online course I am facilitating for ASTD titled, Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , and because of a presentation I gave in the ZingTrain Speaker Series. For a description of the role of managers in the 5As Framework: [link]. For research on the impact of training: [link].

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

The topics ranged from changing organizational culture to evaluating training programs to making managers responsible for employee learning to creating a learning culture. Here are the links with a short excerpt from each post: Culture Change is More Than Skin Deep. Managers and Employee Learning .

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

The culture of traditional, hierarchical organizations does not allow for the scope and speed of learning, adaptation, and innovation that is needed to compete and be successful in today’s environment. Of course, many factors contributed to each of their demise but lack of a learning culture played a major role.

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Degreed

APRIL 17, 2024

Often created as a grid, table, chart, or list, it’s a representation of the skills an employee has or needs for a particular role. We realized there were employees with different positions and titles who were actually performing the same functions. But in fact, that role did exist. What is a skills matrix? It created unclarity.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The eBook – Microlearning: It’s Not What You Think It Is provided an in-depth exploration of the strategic implications, design approaches, and implementation techniques that can effectively enhance workplace performance through microlearning. Exploring case studies concerning different levels of learning impact.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 21, 2015

I don’t think that organizations are going to close this leadership gap until they confront four false assumptions about learning that are deeply embedded in their cultures. Once is enough – This is the belief that people can learn something as complex and ego threatening as leadership the first time they are exposed to the material.

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Matrix

AUGUST 20, 2020

To get a positive ROI out of training programs and course development, L&D leaders must move towards a broader role within the company and develop a strategic plan for this function. This makes sense, considering the department has an eminently supportive role in the organization. Measure the learning impact.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When COVID -19 shuttered offices, it’s no exaggeration to say learning and development professionals played a key role in assuring their organizations survived and thrived. Simultaneously, they quickly redesigned major training initiatives to ensure uninterrupted learning and growth during a time of unprecedented change.

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LearnUpon

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Let’s take a look at how to create a high-performing L&D strategy that will help you increase ROI and boost employee efficiency. What is a learning and development strategy? The aim is to provide employees with the necessary skills and tools to perform their jobs to the required standard, thereby meeting the needs of the business.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

“[A culture of learning results in] a compelling vision of an organization made up of employees skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge. Such learning organizations would be able to adapt to the unpredictable more quickly than their competitors could.”. What are those obstacles? Unclear Goals.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

“[A culture of learning results in] a compelling vision of an organization made up of employees skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge. Such learning organizations would be able to adapt to the unpredictable more quickly than their competitors could.”. What are those obstacles? Unclear Goals.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

While many roles require reliance on technology, and while there is a continued focus on leveraging technology for reinforcing learning, such as through microlearning and learning nudges and whispers, the goal of digital wellness is to promote healthy habits — for example, turning on a “do not disturb” feature that blocks out digital noise.

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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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