WorkLore

We’ve all heard about how data and information is critical to address customer preferences shifting, our technology changing, and the marketplace becomes more and more competitive. One way to do so is by creating a Learning Organization.

There are three “building blocks” to a learning organization that leverages information to create competitive advantage:

The key element to transform organizations is the leadership that reinforces learning. 

Without a willingness to entertain other viewpoints and to actively listen to feedback, the signals for the importance of identifying the problem, reflecting and gathering information won’t lead to learning. It will just be strategy. 

Without tolerance for risks, valuing of difference, or psychological safety, the learning environment can’t flourish. 

Without processes that nudge employees toward sharing information and valuing training, efforts to create a learning organization become one off.

I’ve seen organizations that call for their transformation to a learning organization, but failed to succeed because they didn’t start the transformation at the top. 

Are you working in a learning organization? How do these building blocks emerge for you and your teams?