The world is changing rapidly. Unfortunately for many companies, workers aren't always changing with it. Often, employers -- not employees -- are to blame, authors Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Josh Bersin contend in an article for the Harvard Business Review. If they want to keep up with new trends and technologies, they suggest, companies must focus on building something they currently lack: a true learning culture.
"True learning cultures, defined by [corporate training outfit and Gartner subsidiary] CEB as 'a culture that supports an open mindset, an independent quest for knowledge, and shared learning directed toward the mission and goals of the organization,' are still the exception rather than the norm," Chamorro-Premuzic and Bersin report. "Recent research found that only 10 percent of organizations have managed to create them, with just 20 percent of employees demonstrating effective learning behaviors at work."
If you want your company to be among those that have successfully created a true learning culture, Chamorro-Premuzic and Bersin suggest, what you need to do most with regard to learning is incentivize it -- with financial rewards, for example, or non-financial recognition.
"It is impossible to trigger deliberate changes in your team's or organization's culture unless you actually put in place formal reward systems to entice them," the authors state.
Rewarding employees who pursue education is only part one, however. Part two is rewarding those who demonstrate curiosity. "Rewarding curiosity is not just about praising and promoting those who display an effort to learn and develop," Chamorro-Premuzic and Bersin conclude. "It's also about creating a climate that nurtures critical thinking [and] where challenging authority and speaking up are encouraged, even if it means creating discord."
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https://hbr.org/2018/07/4-ways-to-create-a-learning-culture-on-your-team
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