Institute a culture of learning to boost organizational performance and agility What makes organizations successful? Today, most successful companies are learning organizations. Building an Innovative Learning Organization shows you how to join their ranks and bring your organization up to the head of the class. This book is a practical, actionable guide on how to boost performance, successfully manage change, and innovate more quickly. Learning organizations are composed of engaged, motivated employees who continually seek improvement, which leads to organizational agility and the ability to innovate ahead of the curve. When you encourage learning at every level, from the intern to the C suite, you gain a more highly skilled workforce with a greater ability to act in any situation.
Building an Innovative Learning Organization shows you how to create this culture in your organization, with detailed explanations, practical examples, and step-by-step instructions so you can get started right away. Written by a recognized thought leader in the training industry, this informative and insightful guide is your roadmap to a more effective organization. You will discover how to:
- Attract, retain, and motivate the best employees
- Become a more innovative and agile organization
- Create a culture of continuous self-improvement
- Encourage learning at all levels and translate it into action
Learning and education doesn't end at graduation—it's a lifelong process that keeps you relevant, informed, and better able to achieve your goals. These same benefits apply at the organizational level, making the culture self-sustaining: learning organizations attract top workers, who drive the organization forward, which attracts more top workers. If you want the best people, you have to be their best option. Building an Innovative Learning Organization gives you a blueprint for building a culture of learning, for a stronger, more robust organization.
Praise for BUILDING AN INNOVATIVE LEARNING ORGANIZATION
"To succeed in today's turbo-charged environment, organizations must innovatively learn. Sarder's??book incorporates the best ideas of leaders from around the world and skillfully crafts them into a highly practical narrative that enables readers to build their own innovative learning organizations. This book will become a classic."
Dr. Michael Marquardt, President of the World Institute for Action Learning, Professor at George Washington University, and author of Building the Learning Organization
"The true heartbeat of competitive advantage is learning ... the ability to??live the learning??in real time, apply that learning to drive exceptional performance, and teach that application to others.??Russell Sarder, our most passionate CEO of Learning, understands this because he has??lived it??in his business and in his life.??Building an Innovative Learning Organization??takes us deep into the heartbeat of learning to deliver greater value for our businesses while we grow greater value within ourselves."
Roseanna DeMaria, Former Chief Learning Officer at Merrill Lynch and Former CLO at NYU SCPS Leadership & Human Capital Management
"Building an Innovative Learning Organization??takes the best experiences and expertise from leading practitioners and makes them available to everyone.??This book encompasses valuable insights from leaders who have built highly successful learning organizations [and] sustained them through complex, turbulent times."
Karen Kocher, Chief Learning Officer at Cigna
"Innovative people are at odds with the unspoken dictum of so many companies that 'it is better to do nothing than do something wrong.'??[But] without??continuous innovation, organizations are doomed to failure.??[Our] challenge is how??to learn from our innovations and innovate responsibly. Russell explores these issues in an eloquent and innovative way."
Atti Riazi, CIO at United Nations
"Russell Sarder's passion for learning oozes off every page of Building an Innovative Learning Organization. I am confident that the book will change millions of lives for the better by inspiring countless numbers of CEOs to embrace learning as a primary corporate value and engage young people through learning programs predicated on meaningful internships, apprenticeships, and mentorships."
Gary J. Beach, Publisher Emeritus of CIO Magazine and author of The U.S.Technology Skills Gap
