A learning culture enables organisations to: - become skilled at creating, acquiring and transferring knowledge - modify its behaviour to reflect new knowledge and insights - adapt and grow

1. 9 Tips for building a
Learning Culture

2. Learning
Culture
A Learning Culture increases
Knowledge – Capability – Innovation –
Effectiveness - Performance
Need
>20% formal training transfers
to the workplace
Learning at a rate faster than
change is critical.
People forget what they’ve
learnt if they don’t use it.
Barriers
Leaders don’t support
learning in actions & words
Silos that stop knowledge
flow & collaboration
Lack of systems thinking
9 tips for building a learning culture…
Benefits
Productive capacity is increased
Organisational goals are delivered
Organisaiton learns from it
experiences
Morale & motivation is improved

3. A Learning Culture
 Enables organisations to become skilled at creating,
acquiring & transferring knowledge,& at modifying its
behaviour to reflect new knowledge and insights*
 A set of organisational values, conventions, processes
& practices that encourage employees – and the
organisation as a whole – to increase knowledge,
capability, innovation, effectiveness and performance

4. Benefits of a learning culture
 Operational capabilities are strategically developed
 Organisation learns from its experiences
 Talent is recruited & maintained
 Morale & motivation is developed – being valued is crucial to
employee satisfaction.
 Productive capacity is increased

5. The need for a learning culture
 Less than 20% of formal training transfers to the
workplace
 People forget up to 90% of what they learn in the first year
if they don’t use it
 Learning and change are inextricably linked - Learning at
a rate faster than change is critical

6. Barriers to a learning culture
 Leaders don’t support learning in actions & words
 Silos that stop knowledge flow & collaboration
 Managers focus on their patch not the whole
system
 Where & how learning happens is not understood
 Learning is seen as a ‘nice to have’- if there is
time after the real work has been done

7. 9 Tips for building a
learning culture
1. Leaders value & model learning
2. Make learning a part of the
organisations strategic success
3. CEO communicates importance
of learning & holds him/herself &
all employees accountable for
learning
4. Managers form learning
partnerships with their direct
reports
5. Encourage cross-functional teams
to solve problems & generate new
ideas
6. Clear the barriers to learning
7. Make full use of formal training to
prove the value of learning by
making it relevant, useful &
interesting for learners.
8. Reward behaviours that facilitate
learning eg asking questions,
innovation, sharing expertise,
giving & receiving feedback &
reflection.
9. Encourage everyone to share
successes & lessons learned

8. To find out more…
Email me: jbasslearning@gmail.com
OR
Go to my website: www.jbasslearning.com
Jane Hudson is principal consultant and learning architect
at JBass Learning. She has been working in organisational
learning for nearly 20 years - designing, developing and
facilitating blended learning programs that are strategically
aligned.