“Learning culture” seems to be the go-to place for businesses today. It’s like the most hip, exclusive club that everyone wants to be a member of. If you get in, the competitive corporate world can huff and puff but your organization will not go down. It sounds awesome.
But what on Earth is it? For all its popularity, a clear and comprehensive definition is not yet in place. According to the Harvard Business Review “a learning organization is an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights.”
The same prestigious magazine writes that learning organizations are skilled at five main activities:
systematic problem solving, experimentation with new approaches, learning from their own experience and past history, learning from the experiences and best practices of others, and transferring knowledge quickly and efficiently throughout the organization.
Tags: e-learning • Managers