Nigel Paine – Why A Learning Organisation Needs More Than Smart People

There is an assumption that if everyone learns, the organisation becomes smarter. I would like to challenge that and show that it takes a conscious move away from a focus only on individual learning, to build a learning organization. This talk…

Nigel Paine - Why A  Learning Organisation Needs More Than Smart People

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There is an assumption that if everyone learns, the organisation becomes smarter. I would like to challenge that and show that it takes a conscious move away from a focus only on individual learning, to build a learning organization. This talk will explore what a learning culture is, and why a learning culture  is essential for organizational resilience and agility. We will examine the first steps needed to build a learning operation that is capable of transforming your company, and keeping it aligned with an external environment that is mercurial and unstable. The biggest challenge is not  delivering more learning, but delivering an organization that can facilitate and develop learning that is profoundly embedded in work.