The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 27, 2014

Changing an organization’s culture is not easy. It doesn’t happen simply because of the pronouncements of the CEO, or a reorganization of business units, or by conducting an organizational pulse survey, or by hiring new managers. For example, Jane Hart has a five-point plan for increasing social learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 26, 2013

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

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 21, 2012

What are the tools of organizational learning? As I’ve stated in a previous blog post , a high performing organization needs a comprehensive approach to learning and a set of tools to facilitate learning. These categories of learners and tools translate into a four by three matrix of learners and learning tools.

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

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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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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 11, 2013

They need to learn how to examine what they do, compare that to what needs to be done, reflect on what they have learned from their actions, and make the needed changes in the organization. They must be open to true transformation; not simply incremental improvements. .

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The answer to this question is important because of the impact culture has on an organization. I like this quote attributed to Peter Drucker , “culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Culture used to be considered a byproduct of organizational life. Today, many companies are being quite intentional about culture.

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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

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. Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers.

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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. transportation).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 4, 2013

Leaders today face many challenges in facilitating organization performance improvement. Fifteen of these problems are listed in a survey of organizational performance challenges. Survey of Organization Performance Challenges. Organizational Learning Tools. Tools of a Learning Organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I don’t know if John Baldoni intended his latest leadership book to be about learning, but that’s exactly what it is about. Through other leaders’ stories and through his own experiences, Baldoni describes what outstanding leaders learn in order to be effective. He has an acronym for it: MOXIE.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

In "Part One" of this post, I presented some situations in which espoused values (not necessarily values in use) play a role and examples of instinctive reactions that indicate either the presence or absence of a learning culture. . Both reactions are reasonable, but one is indicative of a learning culture and the other is not.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

The answer to this question is important because of the impact culture has on an organization. I like this quote attributed to Peter Drucker , “culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Culture used to be considered a byproduct of organizational life. Today, many companies are being quite intentional about culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In "Part One" of this post, I presented some situations in which espoused values (not necessarily values in use) play a role and examples of instinctive reactions that indicate either the presence or absence of a learning culture. . Both reactions are reasonable, but one is indicative of a learning culture and the other is not.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

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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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The statements are paradoxes that confront every leader in organizations today. Most leaders look for a solution that is impossible to achieve and, in so doing, fail to move the organization forward. Leadership Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork Getting Unstuck learning Ralph Jacobson'

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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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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. Open Organizations.

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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

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. Lack of Leadership Support. Work vs. Learning. Strategic Goals. Limited Resources. Technology.

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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

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

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

MAY 30, 2017

This reminds us of the warning attributed to Peter Drucker : “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Strategy is important, but given the kind of transformation that must happen in preparation for the future, creating an organization that fundamentally changes the way people are managed and learn must be the focus.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

How do you know your organization has a learning culture ? How will people be learning? While a learning culture is an environment that’s always being developed, certain signs indicate that you are making progress. In a learning culture…. What will you see people doing?

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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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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. It’s a fundamental concept that underpins how humans learn from one another in everyday life.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2015

Now, like many for-profit and non-profit organizations, colleges and universities are facing extraordinary pressure from competition that is global, well-funded, and very attractive to learners of all ages. They know how to teach but they don’t necessarily know how to learn as organizations.

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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. I write: Start with managers. The manager’s role is essential but not sufficient.

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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. How do you know if your organization has the DNA that predisposes it to learning? What are the metrics?

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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?” We hear about the disasters (e.g.,

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

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. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 12, 2016

To attract, develop, and retain more strategic leaders, organizations need to find employees who already have that potential and help them develop the capability. Rather, the authors suggest that the development of strategic leaders is about creating the kind of culture in which strategic leaders thrive and grow.

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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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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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