In these tough economic times, organisations who invest in the development of their people will be the ones which survive.
Adult learning is more about connecting with people who can help put new information into context and suggest new ways of understanding it than it is about new learning. Many adults in the workplace learn more by actual experience than they do by a structured classrom learning.
The first step is to 'engage' the workforce - encourage them to ask each other questions and share stories of successes and failures of what they have learned. This 'engagement' of learning can be extended into meetings whereby questions are asked, "What did you learn from this?"
If you consistently and frequently refer to the value of learning, it serves as the reactor core of an organization in which people learn. With that energy source - your commitment to learning and to creating a learning culture - the people will come to know that this is "the way we do things around here." Already learning will become part of your culture.
Please see the next weekly tip for the next stage of how to create a learning culture.
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