1. ReThinking the Learning Organisation
Anne Bartlett-Bragg
Headshift | Dachis Group
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2. What IS a Learning Organisation?
“...organisations where people continually expand their capacity to create
results...
where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured,
where collective aspiration is set free,
and where people are continually learning to learn together...”
Peter Senge, 1990
Core principles
• an organisation must be adaptive to it’s external environment,
• continually enhancing their capability to change & adapt.
• while developing collective & individual learning capabilities, and
• using results from learning to improve
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3. How do we achieve these principles?
Systems thinking &
Dialogue
Double-loop learning
Productive reflection
Dachis Group Social Business Summit Sydney, 2 March 2011

4. So why aren’t we all working in learning organisations?
• required sophisticated levels of thinking/
learning
• bureaucratic / hierarchical structures
don’t support systems thinking or
dialogue
Dachis Group Social Business Summit Sydney, 2 March 2011

5. How does a learning organisation relate to a social business?
Connections We now have: Culture
• the frameworks to connect people more effectively across the
systems,
• the platforms to enable productive dialogue with their connections
- beyond physical boundaries
Communication
Clarity
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6. Where to from here?
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7. The next step is yours...
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