Creating a Team Culture of Continuous Learning

There is mounting concern that organizational groups and teams often fail to learn from their past experiences. It’s pertinent to address this issue as groups and teams are often the main ways that work gets done in organizations. In this course, we examine the main reasons that groups and teams are often ineffective, which include: • The lack of organizational structures and support for teams and groups • The lack of understanding and emphasis on learning • Misaligned reward structures So, what can be done to create an enabling learning culture in teams? This course emphasizes practical and impactful ways to begin to address this state of affairs. Through the use of stories, scenarios with actors simulating different team issues, examples and dialogue, you learn how to: • Understand teams in their larger organizational context • Diagnose the learning strengths and barriers to learning on teams • Identify ways to develop a team and group that continually learns and impacts the larger organization positively • Create an organizational environment that encourages learning and innovation

• Understand barriers to learning in teams
• Diagnose learning strengths and obstacles within groups
• Develop dialogue skills to enhance collective learning
• Apply strategies to create continuously learning teams
• Use scenarios to illustrate team learning challenges
• Promote organizational support for continuous learning

• No specialized prior experience needed; basic computer and internet skills
• Ability to follow instructions and complete short exercises