Enhancing Your Organization's Learning Culture for Business Results: A Practical Guide For Managers

By Mike Hughes, M.S., PMP

Learning at the speed of business means we have to rethink our approach to learning. Traditional training methods won't cut it. This book provides the answer: Leveraging the power of your organization's learning culture. It provides the philosophy and practical methods to implement six effective programs that are guaranteed to enhance your organization's ability to get business results. Varying in complexity, you'll be able to prioritize with your organization and begin implementing right away. As a bonus along the way, you'll learn a straightforward method that will ensure your next training project is your best one yet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Oct 2, 2018

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Tad Hughes, M.S., PMP

Enhancing Your Organization's Learning Culture for Business Results

A Practical Guide For Managers

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Foreword: Why Learning Matters to Employees

Learning Culture vs. Training Culture

The Short Guide: Creating Better Training

Types of Training and How to Use Them

Planning and Program Elements

The Supervisor and Performance Assessment

Job Shadowing

Knowledge and Skill Sharing

Special Projects

Evaluating - The Easy Way

Template: Proposal for Organizational Learning Culture

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Foreword: Why Learning Matters to Employees

Opportunity, even as an abstract concept, is a fundamental way to excite and engage. After a decade in learning and development, I've found that capitalizing on the promise of opportunity is the best way to motivate people to do better work and to understand the environment in which they do that work. Oftentimes, learning opportunity is thought of too narrowly, and subsequently that potential improved productivity and retention are lost.

If you take any one thing from this book, it's got to be this: A learning culture is not about training events; it's about creating a system; it's a continuum; it's an interweaved network of people who share, give feedback, and teach without being told to do so. Your organization will never reach the potential that a learning culture has to offer for business results if the focus is on training events. The amount of information and change that organizations see on a daily basis is staggering, and traditional training will never keep up. The only way you will realize the potential of your learning culture is if you get away from the mindset of training events and start thinking in terms of learning in the flow and at the