Forget the Learning Organization, transform your training and no one is going to catch you up
Why learning is not your competitive edge and rethinking and remodeling training will put you ahead of the game
If you learn more,
you get ahead.
Right?
That’s the simplistic version of the learning organization (LO).
If you know more, you can adapt and move like superman.
Learning company-wide is your superpower.
Right?
When I speak with executives and professionals, this simplified concept dominates.
It’s like the organizational learning theory got mugged by the KISS principle.
You know, keep it simple, stupid…. A theory designed to keep conversations at kindergarten level.
KISS was never meant to be used like that. At the heart of KISS was making complex understandable.
Making something simple is a profound work of art. Simple is a high-level skill set.
“The height of sophistication is simplicity” — Clare Boothe Luce
What’s missing then?
So, you run in there and rescue a Learning Organization from KISS; you get to a place of safety.
At a café, you order a couple of Lattes and you ask the question:
What’s the real superpower behind the LO?
Come on.
LO looks up from her latte, some milk still on her lip, and says: YOU.
YOU⁉️
How is “YOU”, an answer?
LO smiles, takes another sip, wipes the milk from her lips.
YOU is not the answer; YOU is the question.
I look back, dumbfounded.
Look, she says, the problem in business is not the why, the what, or the how, it is the YOU.
The YOU, is the territory for the battle for learning.
It is what Peter Senge in his book the Fifth Discipline calls personal mastery.
It is the mastery of YOU.
Are you a black belt?
A black belt?
A black belt in self-awareness, self-management, empathy, collaboration, creativity, planning, risk-taking, execution and goal setting.
Are you?
Can you turn dreams into reality?
Can I what?
Can you take a dream, a goal, an ambition and make it happen? And I don’t mean some incremental rubbish, I mean, can you step out of your comfort zone? Can you do something and achieve a high level in something you have no experience of? And can you do this repeatedly?
Do you have the meta training framework to accomplish this?
A meta training framework.
Well, people actually refer to this as the learning meta. This is a posh way of saying learning-to-learn. But learning meta sounds sexier.
So, can you do this?
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