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Build a culture of continuous workplace learning to improve employee engagement and drive business performance with this practical, evidence-based guide.
List of contents
Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: Exploring the concepts of learning culture and learning organization; Chapter - 01: What is a learning culture?; Chapter - 02: Where did learning culture come from?; Chapter - 03: Senge and The Fifth Discipline; Chapter - 04: Bob Garratt and The Learning Organization; Chapter - 05: What are the core components of a learning culture?; Section - TWO: Case studies - Learning culture in action; Chapter - 06: Lubricating learning - A case study of the WD-40 Company; Chapter - 07: Taking the medicine - Novartis and curiosity; Chapter - 08: happy Ltd and HT2 - Learning culture in action; Chapter - 09: Dressing up a learning culture - Cotton On Group; Section - THREE: Building a learning culture - A gyroscope for organizational effectiveness; Chapter - 10: Work and learning; Chapter - 11: Why technology is an essential component of a learning culture; Chapter - 12: What are the essential components of a learning culture?
About the author
Nigel Paine is a change-focused leader with a worldwide reputation and extensive experience in leadership and consultancy with public service broadcasters, SMEs, global industry players, government and education institutions. He is the author of Building Leadership Development Programmes and The Learning Challenge.
As the Head of Training and Development at BBC, he built one of the most successful learning and development operations in the UK. He now runs his own consultancy, which focuses on leadership, creativity, innovation and e-learning, working with companies in Europe, Brazil, Australia and the US.
He is an academic director and member of the international advisory board at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, board member of Management Issues and a Masie Learning Fellow. Frequent conference speaker, Nigel has also written many articles for Training Zone and contributed and edited two books for the internationally respected Masie Centre think tank.
In recognition of his contribution to learning, he received a Global Learning Leader Award at the 2006 Masie Learning Conference in Orlando, and the Colin Corder Award at the Learning Awards in London in February 2012 (The Learning and Performance Institute).
