Creating the Learning Organization

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A one or two day workshop
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the Strategies for Success

This Booklet Includes:
- Workshop Purposes
- Workshop Benefits
- Workshop Agenda
- Workshop Participant Notebook Table of Contents
- Testimonials
- Related Products
- Workshop Policy (registration and cancellation)
- Workshop Booking Information

Workshop Purposes:

Creating the Learning Organization

“From Theory to Practice ... and ... from Complexity to Elegant Simplicity”

  1. To assist participants in improving their thought processes, knowledge, and skills in Systems Thinking as applied to “The Learning Organization” and individuals/teams as well.

  2. To help each participant walk away with a practical set of tools, tips, and techniques to create “The Learning Organization” through actually using Systems Thinking in their lives and in their work.

  3. To discover and re-learn Adult Learning Theory and how to facilitate better learning in all group situations (“Adults learn best by doing”).

Workshop Benefits:

Creating the Learning Organization

As a result of this workshop you will be able to:
  1. Lead your organization's efforts to become a Learning Organization

  2. Teach a practical set of tools to individuals and teams on learning a better way to think–act, and achieve better results

  3. Personally, have a practical set of tools on learning as a better way to think–act, and achieve better results

  4. Become a highly skilled master facilitator to assist teams and individuals learn faster and more effectively.

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Workshop Agenda:

Creating the Learning Organization

Topics

  1. Introductions
    • Welcome; Purposes; Wants; Logistics;
    • What is the Learning Organization?
    • Barriers to the Learning Organization
  2. Overview of Learning Concept
    • Definitions (KSAs)
    • How learning occurs (ELC)-Learning vs. Teaching
    • Stairway of Learning-discovery, curiosity
    • Change curve and Learning
    • Hierarchies of Learning Systems (Seven Levels)
  3. The Fundamentals of Organizations as Learning Systems
    • A-B-C-D-E Framework
    • Systems as the basic unit of Life-12 properties
    • Understand/critique the Organization as a System Model (Business Excellence Architecture)
    • Organizational High Performance Learning Survey—on your case
  4. Key Learning Systems Questions
    • Preconditions
    • Top five questions
    • Add next set of five questions
    • The Foundational Took Question: Leadership
    • The Ultimate Tool Question: Superordinate Goals
  5. More Learning Tools and Applications (from Top Ten Tools)
    • Feedback and the Learning Organization
    • Solution seeking vs. problem solving
    • Cause/effect
    • Environmental scanning
    • Individual change
    • Rollercoaster of Change™ extended
    • Structure and Teams
  6. Summary
    • Check vs. your learning
    • Closure, next steps, actions

Workshop Participant Notebook

Creating the Learning Organization
Table of Contents

Topic
I. The Learning Organization
II. Learning Research - The Basics (Framework#1: Multiple Outcomes)
III. Learning as a Strategy
IV. Three Levels of Learning (Framework #3: Seven Levels of Living Systems
  • Self Change
  • Team Learning
  • Implementing the Learning Organization
V. Environment, Reinforcement, and Feedback (Framework #2)
VI. Knowledge Management and Development
VII. Summary: Strategic Management System

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Workshop Participant Testimonials

Creating the Learning Organization

1. How effective was this seminar in meeting its objectives?
  • Regular principles were presented and discussed, reinforced to overall Systems Thinking perspective. Divergent presentations, while of value may have diluted greater richness in understanding key principals.
  • I can now understand the tools and the language.
  • Very comprehensive and materials went beyond the lecture.
  • Very effective. Kept relatively close to the agenda - objectives, and time.
  • Covering key points in a variety of ways reinforced learning and expanded ideas about application.
  • Clear module, good presentation, good participation
2. How effective was the facilitator?
  • Knows material, has big picture in mind all the time.
  • Warm style, provocative material.
  • Wonderful translator and wonderful example.
  • Great job of tying in materials. Excellent style and skills and facilitator.
  • Brought a different perspective on Innovation.
  • Very effective speaker. Great use of visual aides.
  • Immersed himself in the information.
  • Has a great wealth of knowledge.
  • Well-balanced delivery of activity, visuals, discussion, and lecture. Way to go guys.
  • Very knowledgeable on content.
  • I enjoyed the variety and the different styles of facilitation.
  • Good balances of lecture, examples, do, apply.
  • Fun, interactive
  • Did good job of addressing the questions, picking up on the issues – good feedback expertise, experience, variety
3. What did you like in the seminar that should be continued?
  • Materials are great.
  • The hands-on-work is always a plus for me. The handouts and examples will be taken back to the community of managers and used as tools to assist with process improvement.
  • Team teaching.
  • The structure of his particular seminar is very effective and should change very little.
  • Gave me a great perspective on how to view organizations and how to structure growth and change in a dynamic environment.
  • Good use of audience experiences and knowledge base, great interactivity.
  • The participative way of doing it.
  • Flexibility in hearing “war” stories, flexibility in introducing new tools.
  • Small group size, made it personal, and more effective
  • Informal, workshop material, handouts, informal exchange, location, menu
  • Interactive learning, strategies where we had to practice
  • Relation to real world situations
4. Any other comments?
  • Really noticed the positive modeling re: feedback and learning. Thanks for setting the stage.
  • It is very holistic.
  • Thought the material, information, discussion was very good, practical, applicable, and current. It is information with immediate applications.
  • There was a powerful and enriching learning experience on both a personal and professional level.
  • Overall, the workshop was outstanding, in helping me gain a broader perspective of the many complex issues I deal with daily in my organization.

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