How can you become a ‘learning organisation’ with maximum ROI?

You want to be agile, innovative and highly competitive but you’re struggling to get there? Then perhaps it’s time you became a ‘learning organisation’, this is a concept created by Peter Senge, a systems scientist. The concept refers to businesses that continually transform themselves through consistent learning. The theory isn’t new, but companies are only just putting it into practice, and those that are, are seeing the effect on their bottom line.

So how can you become a ‘learning organisation’? Our very own Albert has reinvented how Virgin Media learn, and has helped them to become a learning organisation where learning is embedded into everything they do. In the podcast below, CIPD – the professional body for HR, chats to Dom Boon who is now the Vice President at Liberty global, about how Albert transformed Virgin media’s L&D strategy.

He chats about Albert’s games, which are used throughout Virgin Media and the results are not to be sniffed at. So if you’re serious about learning and development, make sure that you give it a listen.

In his best-selling book, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge outlines the concept of the ‘learning organisation’. These organisations would be agile, innovative and highly competitive. They would emphasise continual learning and work from a shared vision for all employees. Senge was certainly ahead of his time and 27 years after publication, organisations are still seeking (and often struggling) to embody these ideas. In this episode we discuss new research from Towards Maturity into the New Learning Organisation, and we chat to learning professionals from Virgin Media, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and British Heart Foundation to find what becoming a learning organisation has meant for them and what steps they’ve taken to put learning at the heart of their business.