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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

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

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A Manager's View of Employee Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Bernie is a long-time automotive company manager and experienced engineer. As you might expect, based on my input to a previous blog (3/25, Training Isn’t Learning ), I was delighted to see the emphasis on the necessary role of the manager!

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

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. We know that people learn most from their co-workers and from on-the-job experience, yet we invest the most in formal, training programs.

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

Engaged employees are proactive, supportive, willing to teach others and help them learn. Open social networks: Most learning takes place socially, through daily interactions with peers and others, outside of formal learning events. Work teams are the primary source of learning about norms, values and expectations.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Leaders say how they will support learning and how they will recognize and reward those employees who continually acquire new knowledge and new skills. . Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers. This learning cannot be left to chance.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

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. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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