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Learning and Talent Development: The Learning Organization and Cultural Change

Outline

• • • • What is the Learning Organization? What is Cultural Change How do they relate? How might it be applied to the case study

From Organizational Learning to the Learning Organization

• • Peter Senge 1990 “Forget your old, tired ideas about leadership. The most successful corporation of the 1990s will be something called a learning organization” Fortune magazine

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Senge’s job title is telling: “Director of the Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning Program” at Sloan School of Management, MIT

The 5 Disciplines

Discipline 1 2 Personal Mastery Mental Models

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Building Shared Vision

Team Learning Systems Thinking

• In 5 groups: • Define Discipline 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and how you see it being related to ‘The Learning Organization’

The 5 Disciplines

Discipline Description (from Senge)

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Personal Mastery

Commitment to Lifelong Learning and achieving ‘a special level of proficiency’ Requires discipline, personal mission, ‘seeing reality objectively’ ‘Reciprocal commitment between individual and organization’

Deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations that influence how we understand the world. ‘The discipline of working with mental models starts with bringing them to the surface and holding them rigorously to scrutiny’

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Mental Models

The 5 Disciplines

Discipline Description (from Senge)

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Building Shared Vision

Holding ‘a shared picture of the future we seek to create’ When there is genuine vision people excel and learn because they want to (rather than are told to) Practice of shared vision ‘involves the skill of unearthing shared pictures of the future that foster genuine commitment rather than compliance’

Starts with dialogue – thinking together – learning how to recognize the patterns of interaction in teams that undermine learning. ‘Team learning is vital because teams, not individuals, are the...