Anchor Learning Goals in Workplace Performance
Anchor learning in work; learning as a function of performance, performance as a function of learning.
The Big Picture
Learning goals adopted by Systems Thinking Action Learning Teams have implications beyond the problem, project, or challenge they are undertaking. Over time, learning ought to enrich and improve performance in areas related to the work of the action learning team.
Anchor Learning Goals in Workplace Performance
Systems Thinking Action Learning Teams focus on the workplace and on improving performance. Based on the nature of their work - problem focused, project focused, or challenge focused - learning goals may vary. In all cases, however, they are anchored in the workplace.
The goals for any Systems Thinking Action Learning Team may address learning that spans multiple problems, projects, or challenges. As such, it is not unusual to find opportunities to bring people from multiple teams together for learning organized in the classroom, when useful and appropriate.
In the final analysis, learning that delivers a Return on Investment is directly connected to the performance that leads to results, and which in turn supports the organization's realization of its strategy and goals.