The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Short training courses

Content of Building a Learning Organisation

PROGRAMME


What is a learning organisation?

  • the five disciplines of a learning organisation
  • cultural characteristics, roles, structures and networks
  • how to build a climate conducive to learning

How individuals and teams learn

  • four different ways in which individual’s learn
  • the team as a ‘learning laboratory’
  • using the ten multiple intelligences in learning

How organisations learn

  • internal and external sources of organisational learning
  • different approaches to how organisations learn

Supporting creativity and innovation

  • using resources to promote creativity and innovation
  • using the right processes and models of decisionmaking for different categories of decisions
  • the characteristics of lateral and parallel thinking and how to apply these to decision-making
  • different approaches to problem-solving

How people communicate in organisations

  • patterns of communication
  • communication networks
  • the communication process

Influencing people 

  • strategies for influencing people
  • what’s your style and how to use it

Knowledge creating and the learning organisation

  • tacit and explicit knowledge
  • your human capital
  • your teams – the winning formula