Developing and Managing a Learning Organization

Advancements in technology, shifts in customer preferences, ambiguous economic conditions, and intensifying competition have become regular and powerful forces modern organizations need to tackle to stay relevant. Latest market research consistently highlights the need for organizations to invest in their learning capabilities to become more equipped  at confronting volatile environments and making the transitions between the different market shifts; this makes a learning organization a strategic imperative rather than a strategic choice. This course provides working knowledge on how to develop a learning organization and manage it once it has been established. It also identifies the critical components that will produce the most effective learning initiatives for existing business needs.

The course uses a mix of tactics to increase management support behind the value of the learning organization. Participants will also work with different exercises and case studies geared toward developing strategies to maximize learning and improve job performance. They will also work with checklists and decision tools to help them solve the challenges of establishing their learning organizations.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify key roles needed for a learning organization and examine the learning cycle and how it is achieved
• Identify learning needs and how to support them by the right initiatives and learning strategy plan
• Plan and manage learning budgets and initiatives using ROI and other methodologies for proper evaluation behind learning investments.
• Select, manage, assess and develop internal and external resources
• Strengthen and consolidate learning transfer and support, and resolve learning challenges as they arise

Chief executives, division and department heads, senior and middle managers, supervisors and team leaders and professionals who are keen on implementing effective learning strategies that support business needs

• Organizational learning
• Strategic thinking and planning
• Workforce learning development
• Innovation
• Empowerment
• Engagement
• Managing the learning environment
• Transfer of learning