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Organizational Learning & Improvement Challenges

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Take this survey to identify the most serious ones, the ones you want to work on now. If you need tools and experts to help you, go to Learning to be Great. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world''s leading questionnaire tool. What challenges do you face in your organization?

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Assessing Your Organizational Learning Culture

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For example, David Garvin and Amy Edmondson created an assessment tool to look for: a supportive learning environment, concrete learning processes and practices, and leadership behavior that provides reinforcement. The survey provides feedback for organizational reflection.

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Program Evaluation: A Process for Learning

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I was recently asked, “What is your view of program evaluation? At the risk of over-simplifying these two approaches to knowing, I would say that the purpose of evaluation is to improve programs, services, and organizations and to be accountable for results. The tendency is to use a survey to measure just about everything.

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Why Evaluate Executive Coaching

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Studies of coaching tend to rely on surveys of executives who are being coached. For example, an American Management Association survey of coaching found that respondents from organizations that use coaching more than in the past are also more likely to report two kinds of advantages: 1. We will know the return on investment.

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Employee Survey Data: What's the Secret?

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Employee survey data is often collected but not used, at least not in any significant way. It has been my experience with employee surveys that once I have reported my findings to senior management, rarely is anything more done with the data. I believe employee survey data belongs to the respondents.

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Learning to Learn from Evaluation of Learning

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Each approach to evaluation of training has something to contribute to assessing the impact of formal training on employee learning. However, the value of evaluation is not in the data. The real value is in organizational learning from evaluation.

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Employee Surveys: How is as Important as What

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An epidemic of employee surveys is killing knowledge and wisdom. Fueling this epidemic are two erroneous beliefs: 1) anyone can design and administer an employee survey effectively; and 2) the results of employee surveys are the property of management. There is an art and a science to survey design.

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