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What you might mean when you say "learning culture"

"Creating the conditions for personal agency and authority requires dismantling machineries of compulsion and hierarchical authority. Once workers have discovered their own guiding star, they will organise themselves to grow the capabilities they need..." Carol Sanford What you might mean when you say " learning culture ": "We have a catalogue of training courses." "We provide a wide range of ' learning resources '." "We have centralised our ' learning offer ' on a technology platform." "We are committed to helping more people consume more of our ' learning content '." "We have defined what we need people to know - in order to 'execute' in their role." "We provide the ' learning solutions ' to our ' business problems '." "We have a structured process to validate and prioritise requests for interventions." "We have a consistent and standardised a

Limiting beliefs in corporate Learning and Development teams

"People who suffer most from a given state of affairs are paradoxically the least likely to question, challenge, reject, or change it. Fear and desperation narrow people's vision... we seek familiarity and order over uncomfortable truths." Adam Grant 20 limiting beliefs in corporate Learning and Development functions: "We don't have permission to change the organisation." "Our work is way downstream of 'Business Strategy'." "Learning design standards will compensate for a lack of explicit learning strategy." "' Solutions ' are always the answer." "We are judged on our tactics." "' Business as usual' is a success measure." "Learning technologies will change the status of the L&D function." "We are an information delivery function." "We need certainty in order to make progress." "We need to give people what they want." "We don't have