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Building a ‘fastest learner wins’ culture
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Yet most companies stumble with their efforts to learn.
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But learning fast requires a range of interventions in culture and organization. Here are five suggestions.
Where companies go wrong with learning and development
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Learn fast and prosper
Fast times require faster learning. Is your organization keeping pace?
Getting online
One remedy is to shift your learning budget online.
Where companies go wrong with learning and development
Harvard Business Review
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2020 Workplace Learning Report
LinkedIn
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Fast Times: How digital winners set direction, learn, and adapt
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Because growth is shifting and disruption is accelerating, we must be the fastest learners, and the fastest at applying learning to deliver business outcomes.”
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—F. D. Wilder, former senior vice president, Proctor & Gamble
75%
of managers were dissatisfied with their companies’ learning and development function
of employees said they don’t have mastery of the skills needed to do their job
70%
% of talent developers
57
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Spend more
Spend less
Spend more
Spend less
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38
Online learning
Instructor-led training
Value your failures
You’ve got to make sure that if you make mistakes, you learn from [them],” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Always learning
Approach learning as a mindset rather than as a way to acquire a skill.
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Know yourself
Get clearer about your organization’s performance and health.
Customers first
Use design thinking to build an adaptive learning process around the customer for everything your company does.
Democratize knowledge
Use technology to make sure everything you learn is available to all.
performance and health
2020 Workplace Learning Report
LinkedIn
of managers were dissatisfied with their company’s learning and development function
75%