Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

In my last post ( Learn About Learning ), I talked about the importance of learning how adults learn, so that we might better craft true learning and growth environments in our workplaces. There is another underlying condition to crafting such an environment I’d like to discuss now.

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HR Digest

MARCH 30, 2023

Create a flexible work environment: Offer flexible work arrangements, such as remote work, flexible schedules, and job sharing, to accommodate different work-life balance needs. Consider implementing a results-only work environment (ROWE) that focuses on outcomes rather than hours worked.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 1, 2011

If we use fear-based leadership, bullying, command-and-control leadership, belittling, sabotage or other forms of psychological violence, or allow them to be used by others in our organizations, we create the opposite of a supportive, productive learning organization. LeadinginContext.com.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

“In order to maximize our learning we have to be sensitive to and manage our emotions.” As a leader you need to be concerned about the environment of the people you lead. The litmus test of a learning organization is being receptive to information that goes against the established way and a tolerance for failure and mistakes.”

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

Okay, but what is a network organization and how and why does it work? It’s about communities.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

A Lean organization is essentially a learning organization which makes it especially suited for uncertain times. Lean provides a disciplined structure that allows an organization to focus resources on measureable customer-oriented goals, essentially codifying what has made the company successful. Lean is a culture.

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QAspire

JULY 5, 2022

The five skills are: Cross-cutting : Building diverse networks and strong ties within and outside the organization enabling access to diverse perspectives and knowledge. Collaborating : Harnessing the benefits of diversity by creating a safe environment for people to contribute.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

An innovative and creative environment and mindset that reinvents itself every day. Effective, focused and consistent internal communication to set priorities that focus the organization’s efforts and people on the resources that provide the greatest potential return. A learning organization that adapts well to change.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 6, 2014

In a co-creative, collaborative environment, students hold each other accountable, leadership is shared, and new perspectives emerge. At the center of attention is the process of learning. The class transforms from a hierarchy to an adaptive learning organization.” The teacher/leader becomes a facilitator.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

“The more uncertain the environment becomes, the more a leader needs these six disciplines in combination because they possess self-reinforcing qualities when deployed as an interdependent leadership system.” Learn : Strategic leaders continuously reflect on successes and failures to improve performance and decision-making.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2015

Regardless of the degree to which an organization embraces the values of a learning organization, the reporting of some specific adverse conditions or trends may be perceived to be unwelcomed by one or more potential condition report authors. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

An organization’s systems are the outcroppings of the organization’s bedrock values and culture. In production environments, many systems are obstacles to improving productivity, safety, or quality. ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 12, 2013

Fear is far more a liability than an asset where learning is involved. A testing, contentious learning environment may bring out the adrenaline, but it does not bolster aptitude. Fearful learners take few risks, and risk-taking is paramount for learning. Great mentors are fear hunters. Guest Post mentoring'

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 22, 2015

The way a leader acts has a direct effect, but also what they build, in terms of the environment , the structure, the culture around people that they work in. This should be a high-risk, low-blame environment. Maximum creativity comes when there is a boundary, which identifies tangible goals, within which to be creative.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

Executives that employ corporate strategy can propel knowledge sharing in the company to generate more innovative ideas and solutions for new and demanding issues that come up constantly in our hypercompetitive economic environment. Executives can, therefore, improve firm performance through embracing corporate strategy.

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QAspire

JANUARY 22, 2012

“…leadership may be defined as: the ability to enhance the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem(s).” – Gerald M. A leader also maintains boundaries for a team and creates/maintains an environment where team members thrive, grow and contribute effectively.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 18, 2022

Well-being practices do not come naturally to all employees, but upskilling these abilities is essential to the creation of a positive work environment. Resilience is not a natural born ability; it is a competency that can be learned and acquired. Luckily, wellness can be developed just like any other skill in the workplace.

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Management Craft

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Or a "learning organization" that focuses on building new skills and preventing the problem from happening again? Tanmay over at QAspire has an interesting post about recognizing which kind of organization yours is. Many of you have told me that yours does not feel like a learning organization. Check it out here.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

As it turns out, it also helps the environment. Self-Directed Learning: A Necessity of Our Times. How to Learn More Effectively. Why Organizations Don’t Learn? 5 Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge. Pursuing your hobbies and creative interests is a great antidote to anxiety.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2015

I have seen so many leaders in business environment who don’t fix things till they start hurting the work. We all make mistakes all the time but a learning team constantly apply lessons from past mistakes to prevent them from happening in future. Here are more ideas to build a learning organization. Foresight.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We aspire to create an environment where colleagues feel safe to truly express themselves and to raise risks and concerns. Based on who we are and how we work, we consider mistakes to be learning opportunities. We want to be a continuous learning organization. How are you planning to manage these challenges?

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In any learning organization, someone or some group must have the “big picture” in mind and work to ensure that the parts of the system—humans in a socio-cultural environment like schools—are working interdependently to achieve the system’s aim.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

CoachQuest is designed to build and groom leadership in a team environment, providing team members the opportunity to learn, take action, and achieve results together, within the context of their organization. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Alignment of efforts behind priorities.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Key Messages to Recall and Apply Toward Your Business: Understand the Big Picture. Benefit from Change. Avoid False Idols and Facades. Remediate the High Costs of Band-Aid Surgery. Plan and Benchmark.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Here’s the dilemma: In a competitive, complex, and volatile business environment, companies need more from their employees than ever. Learning organizations – Peter Senge’s term — classically focus on intellectually oriented issues such as knowledge and expertise. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Nurture leaders at all levels. Proactively identify and resolve potential challenges and roadblocks. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Nurture leaders at all levels. Proactively identify and resolve potential challenges and roadblocks. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. Their people are no longer part of the organization they joined.

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QAspire

MAY 13, 2021

How does one approach mentoring when working in a hyper-competitive business environment where speed and results take up precedence? Arie de Guies wrote in his book, “The Living Company” these words: Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only competitive sustainable advantage.” They mentor!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

You might espouse being a learning organization that develops people, but then not give people the time to actually take classes or learn on the job (system-behaviors gap). Lack of trust or questions about what behavioral standards will be used will create political and fear-based environments. Developing.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Consistency/Hierarchy: A formalized work environment with high role definition and replicated practices/procedures. External/Differentiated: Goal-oriented learning organizations that differentiate themselves from their competition in the marketplace and drive excellence in their processes and products.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 31, 2022

Contextualizing purpose must extend beyond building employees’ understandings of organizational purpose to creating environments in which employees willingly connect their own individual goals with the organizational purpose holistically. L&D can enable and guide individuals to discover and define their purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Regardless of which view prevails, navigating this terrain requires a workforce that can adapt to changing environments and acquire the skills necessary to be successful in the future. And that’s where we are falling short. In the surveys of the U.S. Make ongoing job skills training and career development part of the job.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The SEALs leadership recognized that technical excellence—better shooting and better shots—didn’t go nearly far enough in addressing the complex environments and demands that would be made upon sniper teams in wartime deployments in multiple theaters. The post-9/11 environment demanded it. Lead by Example.

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