Training Skills: Building a Learning Organisation

Course Overview

Today's organisations recognise that creating and building a knowledge management environment is crucial to sharing human and intellectual capital for competitive advantage. L&D practitioners must be able to initiate and shape processes that contribute to knowledge creation.

One key process is that of becoming a learning organisation and creating an environment where it is safe for individuals, teams and the organisation as a whole to share their tacit knowledge and learning.

This course will show you how to use the learning organisation to harness the full brainpower, knowledge and experience available in your organisation.

Audience

L&D practitioners, HR generalists, and managers who need to acquire a more strategic vision of the power of organisational learning.Introductory level course - geared towards those who need an introduction to the subject and assumes limited or no previous experience.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, you will be able to:-

• utilise five disciplines to generate a learning environment
• assess the different ways people at work learn
• evaluate approaches to thinking, problem-solving and decision making
• apply strategies for communicating and influencing people at all levels within the organisation
• support knowledge creation through the learning organisation.

Course Outline

What is a learning organisation?

• the 5 disciplines of a learning organisation
• cultural characteristics, roles, structures and networks
• how to build a climate conducive to learning.

How individuals and teams learn

• 4 different ways in which individual's learn
• the team as a 'learning laboratory'
• using the 10 multiple intelligences in learning.

How organisations learn

• internal and external sources of organisational learning
• different approaches to how organisations learn.

Supporting creativity and innovation

• using resources to promote creativity and innovation
• using the right processes and models of decision-making for different categories of decisions
• the characteristics of lateral and parallel thinking and how to apply these to decision-making
• different approaches to problem-solving.

How people communicate in organisations

• patterns of communication
• communication networks
• the communication process.

Influencing People

• strategies for influencing people
• what's your style and how to use it.

Knowledge creating and the Learning Organisation

• tacit and explicit knowledge
• your human capital
• your teams the winning formula.

Training Skills: Building a Learning Organisation / CM025261