16 Steps to Becoming a Learning Organization—Organizational Development

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Steps to Becoming a Learning Organization

1. Commit to becoming a learning organization.

2. Connect learning with business operations.

3. Assess the organization's capability on all five learning organization systems: people, technology, knowledge, learning, and the organization itself.

4. Communicate the vision of a learning organization.

5. Recognize the importance of systems thinking and action.

6. Demonstrate and model a commitment to learning.

7. Transform the organizational culture to one of continuous learning and improvement.

8. Establish corporate-wide strategies for learning.

9. Cut bureaucracy and streamline the structure.

10. Empower and enable employees.

11. Extend organizational learning to entire business chain.

12. Capture learning and release knowledge.

13. Acquire ...