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Establishing a learning culture

Donald H Taylor

Chairman, Learning and Performance Institute

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Question

Do you believe your

organisation has

a learning culture?

If so why? If not, why not?

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A learning organisation?

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Basic training

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Learning from experience

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Innovation

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Training

Organisation

Training, learning and culture

Learning

Organisation

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Training, learning and culture

Learning

Organisation

Training

Organisation

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Training, learning and culture

L.O. Training

Organisation

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Training, learning and culture

L.O. Training

Organisation

Most organisations focus on

individual training alone

Most Learning Organisations include

individual training in their learning

Some learning organisations

succeed without any

individual training

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The learning organisation

Reflects

• Reflects on actions

• Considers challenges

• Discusses & documents

• Low blame culture

Changes

• Consciously

• Systematically

• Comprehensively

• Focuses on action

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Organisations and people

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Edison’s lab, Menlo Park

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Ten Steps to a Learning Organization

Kline & Saunders

1. Assess your learning culture

2. Promote the positive

3. Make the workplace safe for thinking

4. Reward risk-taking

5. Help people become resources for each other

6. Put learning power to work

7. Map out the vision

8. Bring the vision to life

9. Connect the systems

10. Get the show on the road

Ten Steps to a Learning Organization

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Marcia Conner’s

Learning Culture Self-Audit

http://marciaconner.com/assess/learning-culture-audit/

© Marcia Conner

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Bersin’s How to Build a High-Impact

Learning Culture

http://marketing.bersin.com/rs/bersin/images/0310_Forty_Best_Practices_WEB.pdf

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Bersin’s How to Build a High-Impact

Learning Culture

http://marketing.bersin.com/rs/bersin/images/0310_Forty_Best_Practices_WEB.pdf

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Bersin’s How to Build a High-Impact

Learning Culture

… culture is created by, reinforced by, and

often destroyed by leaders. Among the 40

high-impact practices we found, we estimate

that 8 are owned by top leadership, 25 are

owned by line management, and only 7 can

be owned by HR or L&D. In your efforts to

change culture, you must work with leaders

at all levels - and often help them question

what they do and how they work.

http://marketing.bersin.com/rs/bersin/images/0310_Forty_Best_Practices_WEB.pdf

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Bersin’s How to Build a High-Impact

Learning Culture

… culture is created by, reinforced by, and

often destroyed by leaders. Among the 40

high-impact practices we found, we estimate

that 8 are owned by top leadership, 25 are

owned by line management, and only 7 can

be owned by HR or L&D. In your efforts to

change culture, you must work with leaders

at all levels - and often help them question

what they do and how they work.

http://marketing.bersin.com/rs/bersin/images/0310_Forty_Best_Practices_WEB.pdf

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Establishing a learning culture

• Build credibility – do your job excellently.

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Establishing a learning culture

• Build credibility – do your job excellently.

• Live it

– Reflect, consider, discuss and document

– Do this consciously, systematically, comprehensively

– Take action

• Promote it

– Be explicit to managers and executives

– Have an organisational focus

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Resources

• The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge

• Ten Steps to a Learning Organization,

Peter Klein and Bernard Saunders

• Creating a Learning Culture, Marcia

Conner and James G Clawson

• How to Build a High-Impact Learning

Culture, Bersin by Deloitte

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Establishing a learning culture

Donald H Taylor

Chairman, Learning and Performance Institute

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