Capacity building is carried out by coaches and mentors, who help people develop the capacity to do something they couldn’t do before.
The institution we associate most often with research is the university.
Research, on the other hand, is any disciplined approach to discovering and understanding, with a commitment to share what’s learned. Practitioners can be line managers, a product development team, a sales team, or front-line manufacturing people. Practice is anything that people do to produce an outcome or result. The three core activities of the learning community are practice, research, and capacity building (see “Core Activities” on p. Learning communities provide the infrastructure and support to expand learning beyond the individual level. Although individual learning occurs all the time in organizations, it often has little or no impact on the larger system. The absence of effective learning communities keeps our organizations from being able to learn from our most clear, demonstrated breakthroughs. We are now learning that what goes on in any creative process isn’t about organization, it’s about community. It is only now becoming clear, however, that this concept is missing something fundamental. The concept of the learning organization first became prominent about six years ago. Lannon Peter Senge-Creating Transformational Knowledge Recordings of some keynote and parallel sessions are also available on audio and/or videotape as part of the Systems Thinking in Action Conference Collection. Together their comments provide a rich and fascinating exploration of the purpose, principles, and structures that will make the learning organization a reality.įollowing are summaries of three of the keynote talks. This year’s annual Systems Thinking in Action Conference explored both the promise and the reality of the learning organization through the theme, “Learning Organizations in Practice: The Art of the Possible.” Each of the keynote speakers provided a different perspective on the process of creating a learning organization.
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