The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 1, 2016

To what extent does your organization have a learning culture? Look around your organization. Using Edgar Schein ’s definition of organizational culture, you’ll want to know to what extent: Underlying beliefs and assumptions support learning in your organization. What do you see? What do you hear?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 27, 2016

Most organizations are “locked in an industrial mindset.” They think of their workers as cogs in the wheels of progress, doing what they’re told, not smart enough to figure out how best to do their jobs or improve their organizations. Managers in these organizations are needed to tell workers what to do and how to do it.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Learning isn’t static; it happens continuously and in many different places; Hence, the trending phrase, the ‘learning experience.’. How AI Improves Learning Programs … and Drives Business Performance. AI’s influence on organizations is also nearer than you may think.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 28, 2016

Organizational learning processes – across L&D, Executive Development, Leadership Development, and more of the roles in HR and talent management – are largely still rooted in both industrial era models and myths. The first is that I could’ve gone on; both in breadth and depth. Let’s go!

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 26, 2014

, they need to learn how to rapidly develop new, creative, customer-friendly products and services, they need to learn how to work cross-functionally and in teams. Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork Clayton Christensen Drake Bennett Jill Lepore'

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 11, 2013

They must develop a community in which administrators, faculty, and staff are constantly sharing information and seeking performance improvement through new knowledge, new skills, and new applications of knowledge and skills to achieving the goals of the institution.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

learning) and the factors that block people from achieving that change. The table below lists forces that commonly drive learning in organizations and the factors that block learning in organizations. Work vs. Learning. What are the factors that drive and block learning in your organization?

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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?” This question has no easy answer.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 20, 2023

Organizations that foster a learning culture gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. Companies can enhance employee engagement, attract top talent, and drive innovation by prioritizing professional growth and creating an environment that encourages continuous learning.

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Infopro Learning

JULY 5, 2019

While thinking of employees with the highest potential, leaders likely go straight to top performers. Organizations that do not have a defined leadership development program restrict their employees from expanding a skill set that can help them to live up to their potential. 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. Managers provide opportunities to learn, practice that learning, and apply learning on-the-job.

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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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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. However, no catalogue of content could cater for every possible learning need. Not so good reasons.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A survey of SHRM members conducted in August indicates that although most organizations say that a performance management system is important to them, few think that their companies are doing a good job managing performance. UCLA management professor Samuel Culbert has been very direct about the failure of performance reviews.

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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

MARCH 1, 2016

The culture of most organizations prevents them from learning. And without learning they are destined to have disengaged employees, high turnover, low performance teams, unproductive workplaces, inadequate responses to competitive pressures, an inability to keep up with the pace of change, and an unsustainable business.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As globalization increases and communities become more diverse, the competitive advantage of any organization will be its collective knowledge and its expanded expertise. But none of this is possible without learning. Companies must learn more deeply about their customers and markets. Training Is Not Learning.

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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. Work and learning must be part of the same process.

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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

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

JANUARY 8, 2015

You can apply these same principles to organizational learning goals. For individuals, teams, and whole organizations to achieve their learning goals, they need to develop supportive processes and relationships. Align your goals with the strategic goals of the organization.

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LearnUpon

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Organizations need to roll out training, and provide the tools necessary to help their team adapt to new environments. Knowledge is key here, and because change is constant and inevitable, organizations that make continuous learning a strategic priority will be more likely to succeed. What is a learning organization?

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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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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That means we have to go beyond our folk beliefs about learning and look to what the research says leads to effective change. Much of what is invested in as performance interventions has little impact. When we pay attention to what learning science tells us, however, we can do better.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 23, 2011

My colleagues, Leslie Stambaugh and Jim Stilwell, and I have published an ebook to illustrate principles and best practices of effective communication in organizations. Leaders in every organization in which we have worked have told us that their organizaion had a "communication problem." Planning for Organizational Change.

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Infopro Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Amidst the ever-changing business landscape, a new player has emerged – Learning Consulting. Unlike traditional training methods, learning consulting takes a holistic approach, collaborating closely with organizations to identify learning needs, devise tailored solutions, execute effective learning experiences, and assess their impact.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

You don’t get as much value as you should out of your organization’s training and development programs In fact, the number of trainees who apply new learning in their organizations is estimated to be only about 15% to 20%. results in participants applying what they have learned in their organizations.

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Infopro Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2022

If there’s one thing that the world has learned over the past few years, it’s that change is inevitable, but combating change is easier said than done. LinkedIn’s 2022 Workplace Learning Report reveals that 87% of L&D professionals have helped their organizations adapt to change. Delivers with Certainty.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2019

Today, the very definition of organizations has changed. Today’s organizations are no longer defined by fixed workplaces, nine-to-five working hours or even a set of homogeneous employees. Organizations have become boundary-less and often, location agnostic and virtual. the extended enterprise.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Which is to say that most learning in organizations is still delivered using formal, structured, leader-centered training methods. In a podcast produced for ATD, I explain why organizations need to change from this “training culture” to a “learning culture”.

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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

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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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

That’s where Managed Learning Services (MLS) solutions come in. Uncertainty: Rapidly changing market conditions can create uncertainty, making it difficult for organizations to plan and make strategic decisions. This may involve recognizing fresh training prospects or formulating new approaches to remain competitive.

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eLearning Industry

MARCH 6, 2020

There are 3 levels of learning within organizations: individual, collective/group and organizational learning, plus a fourth level that corresponds to inter-organizational learning. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

An Inclusive Learning Growth Pyramid. Some organizations provide myriad opportunities for learning at different levels of the organizational pyramid. An inclusive learning pyramid would help employees at every level to learn the relevant skills and grow to the next level.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2013

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. The method used depends on what individuals, teams, and whole organizations need to learn.

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