The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In an agile learning organization, problems are resolved quickly and used as opportunities for continuous improvement. A Zenger Folkman study showed how a very strong learning organization impacts commitment levels: Learning and adaptability lead to much higher discretionary effort. So, people become defensive.

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IAS Innovation Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

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.

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CEO Learning-by-Doing Teamwork Environment 150

HR Digest

MARCH 30, 2023

Offer professional development opportunities: Provide training, mentoring, and coaching programs that cater to the different learning styles and career aspirations of employees across generations. Create career development plans that align with personal goals and organizational objectives.

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Organization Diversity Motivation Teamwork 69

The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

In vertically managed organizations, individual departments work to optimize their own internal efficiency. Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness.

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System Organization Root Cause Analysis Levitt 52

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 22, 2015

These are people fully able to learn the skills to be effective, deal with complex problems and become leaders themselves. Maximum creativity comes when there is a boundary, which identifies tangible goals, within which to be creative. The way our brain works, we only learn when we do. . - See more at: [link].

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Skills Leadership Creativity Self-aware 70

Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Sonnenberg discusses at length, nine critical success factors that need to be built into the organization: Passion that develops commitment to the organization’s mission, values, and goals. A learning organization that adapts well to change. Devotion to service excellence.

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Management Intangible Assets Critical Success Factor Compliance 284

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

“In order to maximize our learning we have to be sensitive to and manage our emotions.” 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.” As a leader you need to be concerned about the environment of the people you lead.

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 282

QAspire

JANUARY 22, 2012

Strong purpose and clear goals automatically establishes a demand for performance. A leader’s role in building a self-organized team is that of a catalyst who ensures that team is aligned to organization goals. In agile terms, a strong purpose that is bought in by all in the team is also referred to as “shared vision”.

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Team Delegation Agility Constraint 178

QAspire

JANUARY 30, 2011

My Writing at QAspire Blog: A Worthy Goal for 2011 and Beyond. 5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations. Creating a Learning Organization: 10 Actions For a Leader. Don’t Just Punish Them If They Don’t Comply. Excellence? Gandhi, Leadership And A Few Lessons On Simplicity.

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Blog Learning Organization Energy Review 91

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

Executives can enhance knowledge sharing by providing access to knowledge, and stimulate new ideas and knowledge generation, transfer an individual’s knowledge to other members and departments, and improve knowledge capturing, storing, and accumulating, aiming at achieving organizational goals.

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Knowledge Management Strategy Management Hypercompetition 50

Experience to Lead

APRIL 18, 2022

Psychological safety is also a major aspect of well-being (and a necessary part of building a Learning Organization ). Showing leaders how to overcome bias and build inclusive environments is the key to promoting growth and innovation in an organization.

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Training Team Learning-by-Doing Leadership Development 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our goal is to achieve global access for all our colleagues by the end of 2022 or sooner. The HR Digest: Can you highlight any benefits and perks gaffes that organizations usually make? Based on who we are and how we work, we consider mistakes to be learning opportunities. We want to be a continuous learning organization.

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Diversity Commitment Globalization CPO 52

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 21, 2011

RT @ smaxbrown : “The Meaning Organization&# : taking a quantum leap past the Learning Organization. Make a promise to you by @ SusanMazza [link] # goals #career #. link] I RT @ umairh #. Why Good Ideas Go Bad [link] # innovation #. RT @ tseamon : The engagingemployees Daily is out [link] ?Stories Thanks Wally!

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Learning-by-Doing Download Innovation Banking 113

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Realize your goal of creating a learning organization with the Sevian Corrective Action Program. Get your copy today!

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Learning Organization Goal Organization 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Systems and Processes. Structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision, decisions. Planning, tactics, organizational development. Culture and Mission. Philosophy. Benefit from Change. Avoid False Idols and Facades.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2016

When you ask more questions to get to the WHY of things (and then to what and how) When you carry an open frame of mind that is receptive When you look for process and patterns even in discrete situations And when you use your understanding to connect the dots and look at a larger picture When you enjoy the process of learning without getting too anxious (..)

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Self-aware Mentor Learning-by-Doing Process 56

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The same could be said for a quality goal of 6.3 In consideration of the economics of quality improvement, are defect goals of either 6.3 At times, multiple languages and multiple software systems, assisted by translators, might provide a more systemic solution.

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The more questions you ask, the better you will become at asking the kinds of questions that generate the kinds of answers that will help your team and organization grow. Craft your own questions to address your specific goals. Here are ten suggestions, but they’re just suggestions. Ten Power Questions. What else do you need from me?

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Motivation Tactics Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 62

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

It must be said that when one purpose is fulfilled, it is not unusual for teams to re-form and focus on achieving another goal. Team members do what is right for completing the goal or purpose and discussing and arguging is part of a normal team. The team works together until its purpose is fulfilled. What do you think?

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Team Blog Teamwork Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. Win the hearts and minds of individuals, so they share and work toward your organization’s goals. Nurture leaders at all levels. Proactively identify and resolve potential challenges and roadblocks.

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Energy Follow-up Industry Learning-by-Doing 66

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Top leaders required to develop a plan to demonstrate their advocacy for Quality Leadership methods and the goals of the transformation. Transformational goals are reached and there are data to prove successes.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Engagement – Employee engagement refers to the commitment of employees to the organization’s vision and goals. Learning Organization – A learning organization is one that acquires knowledge and facilitates the learning of its team members, in order to continuously improve, innovate, and transform.

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Strategic Planning Network Organization Project Reference 208

QAspire

MAY 13, 2021

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.” Leaders create learning organizations. So, what do leaders do in a learning organization? They mentor!

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Books 172

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

External/Differentiated: Goal-oriented learning organizations that differentiate themselves from their competition in the marketplace and drive excellence in their processes and products. Mission/Market: Executing the action plan that creates bottom-line results and move the organization toward realizing its goals.

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Diversity Teamwork Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 309

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. Win the hearts and minds of individuals, so they share and work toward your organization’s goals. Nurture leaders at all levels. Proactively identify and resolve potential challenges and roadblocks.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

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). Strategy and goal setting. How are behaviors assessed? How often are they reviewed?

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Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

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. To learn more about the power of a collective mindset, read about our transformative work with Belfius.

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Organization Storytelling Diversity Learning-by-Doing 52

QAspire

JUNE 10, 2013

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.” Leaders create learning organizations. So, what do leaders do in a learning organization? They mentor!

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Mentor Open-book Learning-by-Doing Books 194

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Make developing employees part of every manager’s job description and train them in how to effectively work with employees to set training and development goals, monitor progress, and provide feedback. Learning to Learn. You Can Learn and Get Work Done at the Same Time. Set supervisor expectations. Erika Andersen.

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Training Management Survey Career 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. In our era of digital disruption, this goal is more important than ever.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

If the goal was to leapfrog the competition in every product line while revitalizing U.S. Functions were seated together with a common goal: working on the value stream from consumer research to testing. We can work smarter than Korea, China, and Mexico, using 15-20% of the labor they use." The challenges GE faced were daunting.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The problem is that technologies for collaboration are improving faster than people’s ability to learn to use them. A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations. What can be done to close that gap?

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Learning-by-Doing Tools Team Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

Regular check-ins, as opposed to waiting for the annual performance review, allow you to work collaboratively with your direct reports to offer regular insight, knowledge, guidance, and suggestions to help them solve pressing problems, and to help them stay on track for their professional development goals.

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Management Mentor Content Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

At my (Nancy's) company Ernst & Young, we have been recognized as a leading learning organization, not only because we focus on mentoring in-house for professional development, but also because we encourage our employees to volunteer outside the office. Mentoring is a great way to learn those cross-cultural skills.

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Mentor Diversity Career Maturity 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 10, 2020

For them, extraordinary situations can actually be energizing, helping them stay focused on solutions, goals, and improvement. Unfortunately, this well-intentioned approach dooms virtual learning to be a sort of “second-best modality”—tedious, boring, and ineffective. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Organization Crisis Diversity Long-term 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

In the 1960s and 1970s, we embraced participative leadership ; in the 1990s, we were lured by the learning organization. For example, you don’t tell people that your primary interest is reducing project implementation time and that the only ideas that will influence you are ones that achieve that goal.

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Influence Six Sigma Open-book Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

When you see people progressing towards a common goal by following different paths from yours, there is an implicit peer-based feedback loop and systemic learning in that observation itself.

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Self-aware Drucker Analysis Learning-by-Doing 18