I attended a presentation recently by a big company, talking
about their organisational learning system.
They had developed a whole suite of training and learning modules,
develop by experts within the organisation, and rolled out to staff across the
world. There was some limited for
feedback from staff, in that they could give star ratings to particular
modules, but it struck me as a very old model of organisational learning; a
model of the learner as the consumer.
Certainly the frontline staff need training in a whole set
of basic materials, but they can be considered as more than just
consumers. It is also the frontline
staff that produce the knowledge; the frontline staff the interact with
customers, with clients, with the real difficulties of the industry. The frontline staff should not be seen as
just consumers of knowledge, but as producers of knowledge as well. Any organisational learning system should not
just be a one way push of content, it should be a closed learning loop. Training and learning needs to be a two-way
process.
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Actually, I would say that any effective system would have to enable double-loop learning and promote critical thinking, something that scares most companies & institutions.
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