Creating a Team Culture of Continuous Learning

About this course: Course Description With good reason there is mounting concern that organizational groups and teams often fail to learn from their experience. This is deeply troubling because groups and teams are often the main ways that work gets done in organizations. Two of the main reasons that groups and teams are often ineffective are because of: 1) The lack of organizational structures and support for teams and groups, 2) The lack of understanding and emphasis on learning. Groups and teams often fail to realize their goals because of misaligned reward structures, covert norms, and organizational cultures that disable learning. So, what can be done to create an enabling learning culture in teams? Key Learning Objectives: This course will emphasize practical and impactful ways to begin to address this state of affairs. Through the use of stories, scenarios with actors simulating different team issues, examples and dialogue, you will learn how to: 1) Understand teams in their larger organizational context 2) Diagnose the learning strengths and barriers to learning on teams 3) Identify ways to develop a team and group that continually learns and impacts the larger organization positively 4) Create an organizational environment that encourages learning and innovation