Developing a Learning Organisation

Description
Continuos learning throughout your organisation is vital if your organisation is to have the flexibility, responsiveness and innovation necessary to quickly adapt to a rapidly changing business environment This timely briefing will give you the knowledge you need to begin to make the transition. Concise and accessible it provides with you a practical introduction to this essential area.

Contents include:

• Introduction to a learning organisation
• Characteristics and assumptions behind learning organisations
• Effective strategies for developing a learning organisation
• Practical approaches to learning styles
• Developing individual, team and organisational learning
• Specific tools to help you

Contents

1 What is a learning organisation?

• Introduction
• Introduction to learning organisations
• Five assumptions behind learning organisations
• Characteristics of a learning organisation
• The Fifth Discipline
• Role of learning
• Benefits of developing a learning organisation
• Less tangible benefits

• Introduction
• Starting the process
• What are they doing?
• Role of managers and leaders
• Case studies

• Introduction
• Models of learning
• Single and double loop learning
• Learning about learning
• Accelerated learning
• Neurolinguistic programming

• Introduction
• Developing independent learners
• Working with independent learners
• Management strategies for encouraging learning

• Introduction
• Developing positive behaviours
• Developing group learning

• Introduction
• Individual, team and organisational goal setting
• Developing a learning environment
• Continuous and discontinuous development activities
• Learning from experience
• Concluding thoughts
• Checklist of factors which facilitate learning

• Specific tools
• References