Creating a Learning Organization: Promoting Excellence Through Change

Part I – Why Become A Learning Organization?

• Learning organization checklist
• What is a learning organization?
• Why is learning so important now?
• What’s the investment?
• Who’s responsible for learning?

Part II – What It Takes To Become A Learning Organization

• Tools important to a learning organization
• The tools and their continuums
• Getting—and keeping—the learning edge

Part III – The Organization’s Responsibility For Learning

• Organizational attitudes toward learning
• Barriers to learning
• Managing organizational learning
• Determining what type of learning is needed
• Developing resources—and resourcefulness—in learning

Part IV – The Individual’s Responsibility For Learning

• Attitudes to cultivate individual learners
• The stages of learning
• Openness to learning
• Risk taking
• Your personal responsibility for learning
• Creative or reactive/responsive?
• The seven intelligences
• Five strategies to manage creative tension
• Summary