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People are born with an intrinsic curiosity and motivation to learn.
It’s not only our nature to learn, we love to learn. People thrive on it.
That’s why life long learning is ageless. Most of us have been part of a great team experience where we accomplished extraordinary results—far greater than one of us could have accomplished on our own. The team didn’t start out great—it
learned how to produce extraordinary results.
As the world becomes more interconnected and business becomes more dynamic, learning must become a way of life. As Peter Senge put it so eloquently in his book,
The Fifth Discipline, a sustained learning community exists in organizations where people “continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together…The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people’s commitment and capacity to learn at
all levels in an organization.”
A sustained learning community is a cornerstone for sustainable
change. It accelerates the learning in an organization by providing a map with the roles, skills and tools necessary to create sustainable change. At the heart of a sustained learning community is: |
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