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How Do You Create an Organizational Learning Strategy?

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How do you create an organizational learning strategy? It’s not about learning, it’s about *performance*. respects the work context/ … How Do You Create an Organizational Learning Strategy? respects the work context/ … How Do You Create an Organizational Learning Strategy?

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Organizational Learning in the Gig Economy

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According to a 2016 article in Quartz that 94% of net job growth in the past decade was in the alternative work category,’ with over 60% being due to the rise of independent contractors, freelancers and contract company workers. If this shift continues to trend up, more organizations will need to alter their long-held beliefs […].

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L&D is Primed to Drive Enterprise Social, So Why Aren’t They?

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L&D, if they want it, is rightly positioned to lead organizational social. At it’s very core social is about community, collaboration and sharing. Those last 2 are vehicles for knowledge, strategy and tactics to be transmitted and are how new ideas flourish and old problems are solved.

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Why Wait for the Storm to Hit?

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You can sense it. An economic slow down is approaching. The dreaded “R” word. When it hits and demand drops, savvy business leaders make moves – fast! Time is critical, head and heart come into play but in the end those functions, process and people that don’t appear to impact the bottom line are deemed […].

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The 702010 Learning (Department) Model

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I’ve always felt L&D as a department was kind of forced into that space since that’s how traditional organizational design works; skills, tasks, departments, etc. But unlike Accounting or Marketing, “learning” doesn’t play nice with ROI.

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Need to Measure Social? Look Down More.

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According to a recent CLO Magazine article/survey, executives added or supported social tech for 3 very big and very common reasons: increase collaboration (47%), increase engagement (42%) and create a culture of continuous learning (60%). Each is sincere but since an investment has been made, measurability is desired and rarely found.

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