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
- By creating communication networks of people to help
each other
- Learning logs – helping learners keep diaries of learning
- Flexible systems – allowing anything that helps learning to
happen
- Setting learning contracts for each learner
- Providing learners with a mentor to guide them and help
them achieve their aims
- Job-shadowing – i.e. letting someone understudy
(shadow) the job of another
- Self-directed learning – i.e. allowing people to set their
own learning paths
- Self-development – i.e. encouraging personal
development
- 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

Enabling Sustained Learning
|
South Asia's largest Coaching Firm