Why
Organizations Are Approaching Learning All Wrong!
Workplace
learning plays an important role in organizational productivity and
effectiveness. Unfortunately, a large number of organizations approach learning
wrong. Managers mostly rely on training “sessions/ programs” classroom-based to
solve any problem that they face in the workplace without meeting the
employee’s needs, values, and cultures. They most of the time just give
instructions instead of helping employees to feel part of the organization.
As
we know learning in any organization does’t need to be formal. In actuality,
learning could be more effective and efficient in unstructured environment
“informal leaning” something that could be happening on a daily basis. I mean
employees can continuously learn from their colleagues or their managers to enhance
their job performances without even realizing it.
If
anyone interested, to learn and read more about the model, please see
the following link!
Another reason why
organizations are approaching learning all wrong is the “Lack of Dialogue.” Having
a dialogue and allowing an open communication between mangers
and employees is also necessary
to establish an environment of trust within
and among all the people in the organization. It helps to boost employee
engagement too .
Many traditional
organizations don’t have open communication policy between employer and
employees. As a way of illustration, the organization that I used to work
in, we, I mean as employees we didn’t really have the
opportunity to opens ourselves to the others and to share vision and
information! Our ideas and concerns were not heard, we felt like
we didn’t have a voice and we were not part of the team. As a result, turnover
was highly increased! I think there was a simple solution to breakdown the
communication barrier and foster learning in the workplace, which was the open communication!
Why
Organizations Are Approaching Learning All Wrong!
Workplace
learning plays an important role in organizational productivity and
effectiveness. Unfortunately, a large number of organizations approach learning
wrong. Managers mostly rely on training “sessions/ programs” classroom-based to
solve any problem that they face in the workplace without meeting the
employee’s needs, values, and cultures. They most of the time just give
instructions instead of helping employees to feel part of the organization.
As
we know learning in any organization does’t need to be formal. In actuality,
learning could be more effective and efficient in unstructured environment
“informal leaning” something that could be happening on a daily basis. I mean
employees can continuously learn from their colleagues or their managers to enhance
their job performances without even realizing it.
If
anyone interested, to learn and read more about the model, please see
the following link!
Another reason why
organizations are approaching learning all wrong is the “Lack of Dialogue.” Having
a dialogue and allowing an open communication between mangers
and employees is also necessary
to establish an environment of trust within
and among all the people in the organization. It helps to boost employee
engagement too .
Many traditional
organizations don’t have open communication policy between employer and
employees. As a way of illustration, the organization that I used to work
in, we, I mean as employees we didn’t really have the
opportunity to opens ourselves to the others and to share vision and
information! Our ideas and concerns were not heard, we felt like
we didn’t have a voice and we were not part of the team. As a result, turnover
was highly increased! I think there was a simple solution to breakdown the
communication barrier and foster learning in the workplace, which was the open communication!
