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Key Elements of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

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. In a learning culture, the pursuit of learning is woven into the fabric of organizational life.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

These services are competition for established companies and are changing the industry and guest expectations. Any company, faced with these kinds of disruptive forces must keep learning. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

Torrance Learning

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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Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

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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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

To survive and thrive today, industries need innovation which is essentially about learning. Companies must learn more deeply about their customers and markets. Data indicates that less than 20% of participants apply learning from formal training programs. It’s the Culture. Photo by Brxxto on Unsplash.

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What Is Peer-to-Peer Learning in the Workplace? (+Examples)

WhatFix

Here are seven types of peer-to-peer learning examples commonly found in a corporate setting. Action learning groups. Action learning groups are small groups of 5-7 people. Action learning is a process of insightful questioning, reflective listening, generating new actions, and learning from a shared group.

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Year in Review - 2016

The Performance Improvement Blog

The theme of creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations continued to influence most of my blog posts in 2016. David Grebow and I also used our blogs to introduce the concept of “managing minds” (not hands) and how that contributes to learning in organizations. Aligning Employee Learning with the Organization.