#GuildChat for 03/16/18: The Importance of Culture

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, March 16 at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is The Importance of Culture. 

The beliefs and behaviors (conscious or unconscious) of employees in an organization make up the organization’s culture. Many believe that culture plays the biggest role in the success of various initiatives be those external such as a new line of business or internal such as the adoption of new technologies or processes. How about in learning and training?
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In this week’s #GuildChat we’ll explore the idea behind a learning culture. Can one truly exist? What does it look like? Does your organization have the right make-up or are their barriers today? Finally, How would a true learning culture impact the organization and the role of L&D?

Prospective questions:

Q1. How do you describe organizational culture to someone? What is it?
Q2. Since culture is driven by beliefs, what beliefs are important for learning to be a prominent activity in an organization?
Q3. What do the day-to-day activities in a learning and performance (L&P) culture look like?
Q4. What should L&D’s role be in contributing to, reinforcing, and/or shifting an organization’s culture?
Q5. How might a healthy L&P culture impact the role of L&D?
Q6. Shifting culture isn’t easy. If an organization doesn’t have a strong L&P culture but wants to, what are some changes you’d suggest?
Q7. Culture is communicated socially. Knowing this, what can organizations do to reinforce a healthy culture of learning?
Q8. What about an organization’s culture can actually get in the way of encouraging learning and performance?

 

 

 

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Mark is the Director of Event Programming for The Learning Guild. Prior to joining he had worked over 15 years designing and managing learning solutions with organizations such as Smartforce, Pearson Digital Learning, the SUNY Research Foundation, Aspen Dental Management, and Systems Made Simple. Mark is also an Organizational Social Designer, helping businesses achieve the benefits of becoming more connected & collaborative. He is the author of Social By Design: How to create and scale a collaborative company. Mark regularly presents and writes on his The Simple Shift blog about the use of social media for learning, collaborative networks, and organizational design.

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