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Principles of Learning
They have found that we learn best when we are motivated to achieve something as opposed to being motivated to learn. Learning is also most thorough when it involves the whole person mind, values, and emotions. People tend to be more receptive to learning that they have helped to create, and they will know the information they acquire in this way better than anyone else
Anticipatory learning arises when an organization learns from anticipating various futures. This approach seeks to avoid negative results and experiences by identifying the best future opportunities while discovering ways to achieve them. In comparing adaptive and anticipatory learning, we can note that adaptive learning is more a coping form of learning. Anticipatory learning is a more generative or creative type of organizational learning.
Learning Skills
Self Directed Learning
All members of a learning organization should be aware of and enthusiastically accept the responsibility both to be learners and to encourage and support the learning of those around them. We must learn how to learn on our own, partly through knowing our preferences regarding learning style in order to optimize our learning opportunities.
Dialogue
Dialogue is intense, high-level, high-quality communication based on the free, creative, and mutual exploration of subtle issues; on listening deeply to one another; and on suspending our own views. By applying the discipline of dialogue, we learn how to recognize the patterns of team interaction that either promote or undermine learning.
Appropriate for developing basic competencies Helps organizations and individuals learn how to learn and create novel solutions Emphasizes improvement Emphasizes breakthrough
Not necessarily linked to organization's mission Directly aligned with organization s vision and and strategy requirements for success Structured learning experiences with shortterm focus Formal and informal, long-term future oriented, learner initiated
In discussing learning organizations, we are focusing on the what the systems, principles, and characteristics of organizations that learn and produce as a collective entity. In discussing organizational learning we are concerned with how organizational learning occurs the skills and processes of building and utilizing knowledge. As discussed below, organizational learning is just one aspect of a learning organization.