The Next Level Lab is pleased to introduce a Reflection and Planning Inventory designed to help workplace managers consider the ways in which their workplace supports learning and to reflect upon ways to increase learning in service of better work performance. Based upon research in the learning sciences, cognitive science and neuroscience, the inventory invites reflection on six dimensions in which learning organizations support growth amongst their employees. The inventory offers snapshots at different points in time that can serve as benchmarks for the organization to assess against in considering how well it is meeting its learning goals.
Here’s what one workplace manager had to say about the inventory:
“We used the Organization Learning Inventory during our annual leadership kickoff meeting. It was an excellent instrument to expand and ground our thinking about organizational learning. This is something we’ve discussed before and have incorporated several efforts to become a learning organization. The self-reflection survey expanded our consideration of what it is to be a learning organization and illuminated our limited progress. It’s clear to me that to truly be a learning organization, we must build this ubiquitously into our business culture and address the mindset aspects of our leaders and team – that targeted activities and expressions of intent are insufficient to move us forward. Now that it’s clear that we’re not as far along in this journey as we had thought, I am hoping to tap into connected resources to further our journey as a learning organization.”
David M. Freeman, Vice President and General Manager, Healthcare Analytics Solutions, Quest Diagnostics
How might you use the inventory to help you assess what you are doing well and to help you identify areas in which to focus and set goals for organizational support of employee growth and development? If you do use it, please send us your thoughts. We are always looking for feedback towards product improvement.