We recently heard a story that made us reflect on the obstacles that block learning transfer within organisations — the missing link between learning new skills and embedding workplace learning to make it really count.

Lessons about organisational learning from an 11 year old

This year my son started at a public intermediate school. Up until this point he had always been a relatively reluctant learner but the move to Intermediate has radically changed that. The reasons for this change are multiple, but I will focus on three reasons that are most relevant to organisational learning.

As we worked through the Beyond Performance re-branding last year, the team and I talked a lot about how the learning and development (L&D) world needs to change and how we could support that change.  This recent article from Lynda Donovan and published in the ILT on-line magazine mirrors our thinking.