For Organizations - What does this involve ?
Being a Learning Organization involves considerable commitment from
everyone in the organization, and like most things it has to be initiated at
the top. What a Learning Organization involves could take up a whole
manual, and we would be happy to share the same with you if you so
wish through a personal interaction. However, in short a learning
organization involves the following:

  • Building a shared knowledge base and using it enabling it
    effectively through the organization
  • Continuous learning to ensure that the rate of change within the
    organization exceeds the rate of change in the market
  • Questioning – challenging a particular approach or methodology,
    to ensure that the best course is taken
  • Understanding – i.e. recognizing a situation and drawing on
    knowledge to find solutions to problems arising out of it
  • System thinking – recognizing systems and rules & abandoning
    them when they cease to work for more creative thinking that goes
    beyond those rules and systems
  • Knowing when to learn – including recognizing when you have
    learned something
  • Supporting learning
  1. By creating communication networks of people to help
    each other
  2. Learning logs – helping learners keep diaries of learning
  3. Flexible systems – allowing anything that helps learning to
    happen
  4. Setting learning contracts for each learner
  5. Providing learners with a mentor to guide them and help
    them achieve their aims
  6. Job-shadowing – i.e. letting someone understudy
    (shadow) the job of another
  7. Self-directed learning – i.e. allowing people to set their
    own learning paths
  8. Self-development – i.e. encouraging personal
    development
  9. Personal development plans – i.e. by helping people build
    a firm development plan

It means enabling a continuous learning process from every possible
angle, participated in by everyone at every level in the organization
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