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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Develop and foster agile learners – Much has been written about the importance of being open to new thinking and adaptable to the changing environment, and Osborne believes that leaders need to cultivate such a mindset in employees if a learning culture is to be developed.

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5 Characteristics of the Antiquated Leader

Ron Edmondson

Makes the work environment strictly business.The generation entering the new organizational world mixes business with pleasure. They want to enjoy their workplace environment…Today’s leaders must learn to celebrate along the way to success.

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Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive

Harvard Business Review

But a large and growing body of research on positive organizational psychology demonstrates that not only is a cut-throat environment harmful to productivity over time, but that a positive environment will lead to dramatic benefits for employers, employees, and the bottom line. Stress-producing bosses are literally bad for the heart.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

For example, the research of Amy Edmondson and Alicia Tucker in hospital emergency rooms shows that the failure to speak up can lead to medical mistakes with disastrous consequences. Focus your conflict-management resources where it matters most. We see similar findings in research looking at individual work teams.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

But that’s exactly why it would be a mistake to look past organizational behavior and culture at GM: It is utterly inevitable that things will go wrong, according to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson. Garvin notes that this is where Edmondson’s work on implicit voice theories comes into play.