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Building Learning Culture in Organizations: A leadership guide

Core Curriculum from David Smith Leadership Coach

Course Overview

What’s the difference between those organizations that prosper in unpredictability and those who simply endure? Might the secret also be not in attaining all the answers, but in cultivating environments where learning never ends?

Traditional methods of organisational development no longer work in today’s ever-changing world of work. This course is an integrated approach to how the leaders of commercial and non-profit organisations can transform their workplaces into learning organisations that develop, adapt, and prosper in the face of externa l pressure.

Using practical models and real-world examples combined with practical takeaways, attendees will uncover how to create environments where curiosity powers performance, failures are the stepping stones to succeed and each member of the team adds to the collective learning journey.

Module 1: Learning Culture Foundations

Duration: 2 hours

Learning Outcomes:

Distinguish a true learning culture vs. training as it has always been done

Point out the importance of trust and psychological safety in organizational learning

Identify the obstacles that inhibit learning cultures from being established

Key Topics:

Investigating the modern adaptive organization

The psychology of learning and growth in the workplace

Building environments where vulnerability is the path to innovation

Leadership action that promotes or inhibits learning

Module 2: Establishing Trust and Psychological Safety

Duration: 3 hours

Learning Outcomes:

Adopt tactics for expanding psychological safety through all levels

Develop communications systems that foster open discussions

Cultivate leadership habits that show vulnerability and willingness to evolve

Key Topics:

The neuroscience of psychological safety

How to set the scene for successful experimentation

Starting with empathy: Meeting individual learning needs

Overcoming 'hierarchical' communication boundaries

Module 3: Fostering Growth and The Drive To Always Get Better

Duration: 2.5 hours

Learning Outcomes:

Move the organization from fixed to growth mindset thinking

Build processes that make failures learning opportunities.

Set up feedback loops that are constantly inform the process of adaptation

Key Topics:

Releasing limiting beliefs about possibilities

Seeing failure as data points that drove the process forward

Building iterative improvement processes

Encouraging calculated risk-taking and innovation

Module 4: — Enabling Through Exchange of Information and Collaboration

Duration: 3 hours

Learning Outcomes:

Design cross-functional collaboration strategies

Use technology-based knowledge sharing platforms

Develop mentorship and coaching systems to scale learning

Key Topics:

Breaking down departmental silos

Using digital tools to share knowledge

Building internal mentorship networks

Developing communities of practice in organisations

Module 5: Linking Learning to Strategic Goals

Duration: 2.5 hours

Learning Outcomes:

Tie learning efforts to business goals and objectives – Learn ties directly to business.objectsives.

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Key Topics:

Workforce planning and skill gap analysis

Arming your company with the power of enterprise skill-based learning.

Embedding Learning in Performance Appraisals

Recognition and reward programs that promote learning activities

MODULE 6: MEASURING AND SUSTAINING LEARNING CULTURE

Duration: 2 hours

Learning Outcomes:

Formulate useful metrics for assessing learning culture

Establish structures for continuous culture evolution

Institutionalize adaptive devices that adapt to shifting organizational requirements

Key Topics:

Determining success for learning initiatives

Tools for employee feedback and culture surveys

Long-term sustainability strategies

Creating self-reinforcing learning ecosystems

What You Will Learn

At the end of the training, attendees will have:

Strategic Insight: Discover why learning cultures uniquely determine organizational resiliency, innovation capability and competitive advantage in uncertain markets.

Applied Implementation Skills: Tangible methods and models for creating psychological safety, promoting experimentation and reducing knowledge blocking.

Leadership Skills: Advanced approaches to modeling vulnerability, guiding challenging talks, and nurturing cultures where all members feel able to offer input and develop.

Measurement and Adaptation: Approaches to monitoring the cultural shift, receiving useful feedback, and continually evolving learning efforts to suit new needs.

Systems Thinking: Knowing that personal learning behaviors are connected to team dynamics which are connected to organizational culture and business results.

Summary

Is your company prepared for the challenges that lie ahead? Through this course, Australian leaders will learn how to build a learning culture that doesn’t just respond well to change, but anticipates and helps shape that change.

Using a mix of real Australian business examples you will leave with quick wins for implementing cultural change. Most importantly, they will learn how to sustain and develop these changes over time, so that organisations become progressively stronger and more innovative with every challenge.

The future is the fate of life forms that learn at a rate faster than that of their changing environment.” And it is this that will enable you to create that competitive advantage, one conversation, one experiment, one breakthrough at a time.

Length: 15 hours in total Style: Peer collaboration in interactive workshops Format: You’ll be required to create a practical culture development project Requirements: Some form of leadership experience or a current management position.