What Are Leading-Edge Learning Organisations Doing?

The Conference Board of Canada states that for most companies, the concept of being a "learning organisation" continues to be difficult to grasp. At the heart of the challenge is the premise that organisations do not learn, people do.

What is a leading-edge learning organisation?

• A leading edge learning organisation is one where innovation, knowledge sharing and productivity improvements are routine.
  
  
• It is an organisation that is more likely to report better overall levels of profitability.
  
  
• It is an organisation that monitors outside trends by benchmarking with other organisations, thus learning from external sources.
  
  
• Senior management of learning organisations go beyond the broad company statements with regards to training initiatives.
  
  

What are the performance characteristics of a leading-edge learning organisation?

• It is an organisation that is likely to provide 20% (6 hours) more training to its employees than the national average of 30 hours.
  
  
• Almost 92% of learning organisations use mentoring programs.
  
  
• It is an organisation that will invest at least $1 131, which is $272 more per employee than the national average of $859 per year.
  
  
• Learning organisations deliver a significantly higher percentage of all training using learning technologies, 18.6%, compared to the national average of 13%.
  
  

For example, the Bank of Montreal invests on average $1 800 a year in each of its 33 000 employees — more than double the national average and provides them with a minimum of 7 days of training a year — they believe that such an investment is essential in today's ever-changing knowledge-based economy.

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