The Learning Company Toolkit
The founders of the Learning Company Project have designed this resource specifically to help managers and professionals with the concepts and ideas of the learning organisation. It contains 20 developmental activities (including workshops and diagnostics) for use with small or large groups.
Buyers Guide
What is the purpose of this manual?
To give people plenty of practical tools that will help to create learning-friendly work environments (i.e. learning companies or learning organisations).
Is it for me? What is the target population for this manual?
The manual is written for anyone who needs ideas to help make learning and development a priority in their organisation. This includes managers and management development specialists.
Who wrote the manual?
The manual was written by the three people who masterminded the famous Learning Company Project: Mike Pedler, John Burgoyne and Tom Boydell. They are well-known authors having previously collaborated with three best sellers (published by McGraw-Hill), A Manager’s Guide to Self-Development, The Learning Company, and Towards the Learning Company: Concepts and Practices. The tools in this manual were originally developed for their own use as management development specialists. They found them so useful that they wished to make them available to a wider audience. This manual is the welcome result.
What difference will it make?
The manual contains 20 developmental activities, each with a step-by-step guide and all the necessary handouts and exercise materials. These activities show how to put learning ‘on the map’ as a process of strategic importance in any successful organisation. Learning companies, i.e. companies that are good at learning, have a number of advantages over those that fail to place learning centre-stage. They are more likely to survive because they continuously learn and create ‘virtuous circles’ where success breeds success. They deal better with problems and challenges, they have a better understanding of things going on around them and they can identify, and exploit, opportunities whilst avoiding areas of risk and danger.
In how many ways could I use the manual?
You could:
- Select the activities you want to use in your organisation and follow, to the letter, the guidelines the author’s offer based on their own experiences of using the tools
- Use the tools on offer as invaluable thought-starters and customise them for your own use
- Photocopy the numerous handouts/visual aids and incorporate them into your training programmes
- Use the numerous questionnaires and checklists (including the well-known Organisational Toxicity Index) as diagnostic tools to establish how near or far your organisation is from being a Learning Company
- Incorporate the tools that focus on leadership issues and strategic decision making into a senior management workshop
So, why should I buy it?
Because it will instantly give you 20 practical activities that will help you turn your organisation into one that values learning as the key to sustaining a competitive advantage.
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