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Leading Learning Organizations

Part of the Talent Management Series series

Overview:

Are you intrigued by the idea of a learning organization? Are you inspired to lead yourself and your employees into becoming one? But are you confused by where we, as an organization are in all this? Are you questioning more, and enjoying it less? Does your Search for Excellence in Total Quality Management lead you through the Fifth Discipline with Seven Habits and bring you finally to a new definition of Thriving Chaos?

Leading Learning Organizations, integrates all of the above to cut through some of the confusion, (or at least make you comfortable in being confused) and give you some practical skills you can use to apply the five core competencies that help you build your learning organization. Bill Schrum will escort you through:

Personal Mastery: Continually clarifying and deepening your personal vision, focusing your energies, developing patience, and seeing reality objectively.

Mental Models: Recognizing the deep seated internal images you and your organization hold of how the world or your employer works and discovering how these images affect your perceptions and behavior.

Team Learning: Gaining group synergy through skillful discussion and dialogue.

Shared Vision: Creating a sense of alignment that permeates the organization and gives coherence to diverse activities.

Systems Thinking: Appreciating patterns, interrelationships, and interdependencies.

 

Learning Objective:

This highly interactive program will focus on how you can improve the way you work, think, communicate and lead. the program will facilitate you to:

• Experience a shift from a predominant concern with controlling to a predominant concern with leading and understanding.
• Gain an understanding of the characteristics of learning organizations and how these ideas can be implemented by you to create change from within.
• Improve the quality of your thinking and reasoning.
• Develop team learning skills and integrate a solid approach to building high performance teams.
• Acquire new, and useful, tools for thinking and interacting around complex issues.

Who Should Attend:

See Overview  

Key Topics:

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Location:
Edgewood College on Deming Way
1255 Deming Way
Madison, WI 53717

Instructor: Bill Schrum

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