What is a Learning Organization?
Embedded within all of the services provided by Aberfoyle Consulting is a realization that learning precedes any significant and sustainable change. Organizational learning is imperative in order for organizations to change their collective attitudes, behaviours, and abilities. All of these are required to effectively innovate and to create sustainable change and continual growth.
Given the complexities of globalization and our often unrecognized need for interdependence and innovation, a learning organization provides the most powerful and authentic platform from which sustainable change and continuous organizational growth can occur.
The learning capacity of an organization and the willingness of its members to learn collectively is transformative, and offers endless possibilities for human and organizational growth.
A learning organization embodies
- the infrastructure for continuous collective learning, innovation and creativity;
- an organizational structure and culture that nurtures deeper and more expansive ways of thinking and functioning.
Features of The Learning Organization
- Provides continuous learning opportunities
- Uses learning to build capacity and reach goals
- Links individual performance with organizational performance
- Fosters inquiry and dialogue, making it safe for people to share ideas and make recommendations
Benefits of The Learning Organization
- Develops deep levels of commitment among all stakeholders
- Taps into the collective intelligence of your organization
- Increases the collective intelligence of the organization
- Focuses your organization around a common set of values that are directed to a shared vision for the organization
- Adapts to changes within the market
- Creates sustainable change
Establishing Your Learning Organization
Aberfoyle Consulting specializes in developing learning organizations. Using the competencies in The Capacity-Building Wheel and The Organizational Crucible, Aberfoyle Consulting is well-equipped to provide your organization with the guidance, tools and support to develop a learning organization within your company or institution.
