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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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 11, 2013

What isn’t discussed much is how colleges and universities need to change in order to increase value for students and society. And there are other pressures on higher education institutions to change and improve. They must create an organizational routine of feedback, reflection, and active social learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In a blog post titled, "Building a Productive Learning Culture", Thomas Handcock and Jean Martin say that businesses, because of need and demand, are increasing employee participation in training but failing to increase productivity. The authors believe that a culture change is required.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 27, 2016

That “Steam Engine” mindset, as described by Jonathan Gifford and Mark Powell in their new book, My Steam Engine Is Broken: Taking the organization from the industrial era to the Age of Ideas , creates a command-and-control culture that has become a barrier to success in companies today.

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Learnnovators

DECEMBER 13, 2015

The usual culprits are the hapless organizational culture closely followed by hierarchy and leadership lethargy. We have become accustomed to blaming the culture of an organization for the failure of any initiative, and more so when the change calls for redefining and re-imagining how people work and interact.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Eight leader habits are essential to a learning culture. These are behaviors ingrained in the routines and rituals of organizations that are continually learning and learning how to learn. In a learning culture, people are continually sharing needed information with the people who need to know.

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Ed App

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Today’s global environment is characterized by the constant change of organizations, which cannot be successful if employees are not aware of the need for change and if they do not adopt a strategy promoting continual evolving. Organizational learning is important for innovation and is a bridge between work and creativity.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In order to work through the above issues we have to change the formula to both/and. As organizational leaders, we want solutions. Leadership Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork Getting Unstuck learning Ralph Jacobson'

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Infopro Learning

JULY 5, 2019

In this era of digital disruption, business requires leadership that can deliver excellence. 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.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

A force-field analysis helps us with a problem by modeling the factors that drive people toward achieving a particular change (i.e., learning) and the factors that block people from achieving that change. Lack of Leadership Support. What are the factors that drive and block learning in your organization?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The need for creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is critical given the rise of digital technology, the rapid pace of change, the complexities of globalization, and the growing development demands of a diverse workforce. To try to change a culture in a company that size is a daunting task.”.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 30, 2017

Ford signals willingness to change to boost stock price ( USA Today ). According to these news stories, three venerable companies are making major changes that they believe will help them move into the future and implement a winning business strategy. It’s more about developing the right culture than implementing the right strategy.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 21, 2015

Deloitte has identified “leadership development” as a major challenge for HR leaders in 2015. From this study, they conclude: Organizations around the world are struggling to strengthen their leadership pipelines, yet over the past year businesses fell further behind, particularly in their ability to develop Millennial leaders.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2015

Higher Education institutions have resisted change, and for good reason. In order to compete with these “schools”, change at the margins will not be enough; colleges and universities need transformation. They know how to teach but they don’t necessarily know how to learn as organizations.

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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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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Recently, I read two posts that to me reflected the changing nature of work -- from divergently different perspectives. One was from the field of architecture and the other was by Harold Jarche on workplace and learning. What can L&D do to foster the necessary change? Given below are excerpts from both.

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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. Employee Engagement Leadership Learning Culture Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork'

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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. Mike Hyatt makes this case in a blog post.

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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&#. Need to be more agile & change. Broaden definition of learning. improve learning process.

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Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Ask any IT professional if they have a repeatable process for Change Management (CM) and you can expect an unequivocal “Yes we do!” Actually, they have no other choice when we consider the nature of Change in the scope of their IT world. Now consider this question: “Is IT the only organization in your enterprise involved in Change?”

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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. Developing future leaders is crucial for the sustainability of any organization.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

From that day on, my thinking changed. The onboarding experience should provide opportunities for fresh trainees to imbibe the culture of the organization, preparing them to be productive from day one. First-time and middle managers together form the most crucial slice of the organizational pyramid. Life is like that.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 7, 2015

During the first session of a workshop I facilitate for ATD, one of the participants asked, “What does a learning culture look like in an electrical power generation plant, where most of the training is for the purpose of meeting industry regulations?” They need repetition, practice, feedback, and reflection.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

All industries are undergoing enormous change, mostly due to new technologies, globalization, and a very diverse workforce. 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.

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Learnnovators

MAY 4, 2015

Recently, I read two posts that to me reflected the changing nature of work — from divergently different perspectives. One was from the field of architecture and the other was by Harold Jarche on workplace and learning. What can L&D do to foster the necessary change? Given below are excerpts from both.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

The culture that underpins a managing minds approach must support and encourage an ongoing and collective discovery, sharing, and appli­cation of knowledge and skills at the individual, team, and organization levels. Gary Neilson and Jaime Estupiñán have been studying and writing about organizational DNA for the past 10 years.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If this post describes your organization, you need to make the transition to a learning culture. Meyer, addressed this issue in his blog for Forbes online: Any corporate learning professional will tell you that sales and leadership training need to be processes, not events. Leadership training requires a similar process.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

What and how people learn is changing dramatically. Digital technology has opened the door to new learning formats and created a demand for new, more fluid types of training and development efforts. In this “rapidly changing business landscape”, we need individuals and organizations that know how to learn.

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WalkMe Training Station

JUNE 19, 2016

The first article was titled “How ‘Learning Organizations’ Beat Natural Selection” After detailing the importance of a learning culture within a learning organization, I would like to briefly look at several barriers to organizational learning. Stubbornness and Resistance to Change.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 18, 2012

If you’re not going to evaluate a leadership development program, don’t do the program! I’m talking about a systematic, evidence-based look at why it was done, what was done, how it was done, what happened as a result, how it can be improved, and what the organization learned from the process. I would add: Reinforcement of learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

The culture that underpins a managing minds approach must support and encourage an ongoing and collective discovery, sharing, and appli­cation of knowledge and skills at the individual, team, and organization levels. Gary Neilson and Jaime Estupiñán have been studying and writing about organizational DNA for the past 10 years.

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Allen Interactions

JULY 8, 2020

Today’s pandemic, covid-19 environment with uncertainty and instability abound, creating, collecting, and sharing organizational knowledge can be a struggle. Organizational learning requires continuous reflection and a willingness to be flexible and agile.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Throughout 2013, I used this blog to illuminate important leadership and management issues. The topics ranged from changing organizational culture to evaluating training programs to making managers responsible for employee learning to creating a learning culture. Managers and Employee Learning .

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Learnnovators

MAY 3, 2015

Recently, I read two posts that to me reflected the changing nature of work — from divergently different perspectives. One was from the field of architecture and the other was by Harold Jarche on workplace and learning. What can L&D do to foster the necessary change? Given below are excerpts from both.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 3, 2014

Some might say, “GM is too big to change.” But large, global companies can change their cultures. As I wrote in a previous blog post , Ford CEO Alan Mulally led Ford through a culture change that was critical to going from billions of dollars in losses each year to billions of dollars in profit.

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