Create a Culture of Learning!

The Fifth Discipline

Peter Senge stated in an interview that a learning organization is a group of people working together collectively to enhance their capacities to create results they really care about. 

Senge popularized the concept of the learning organization through his book The Fifth Discipline. In the book, he proposed the following five disciplines:

1.    Systems thinking: Organizations are a system of interrelationships. To become more successful we need to analyze these relationships and find the problems in them. This will allow an organization to eliminate the obstacles to learning

2.    Personal mastery: An individual holds great importance in a learning organization. Continuous self-improvement holds as much important as commitment and work for the organization. Employees need to grow and work on their own goals.

3.    Mental Models: This is the company culture and the diverse theories and mindsets that serve as a framework for the functioning of the organization. Learning organizations look for how these affect organizational development.

4.    Shared Vision: A learning organization's employees all share a common vision. Personal goals must be in sync with the goals and vision of the organization.

5.    Team Learning: The importance of dialogue and group discussion. For a team to learn, they must be in sync and reach agreement.

Benefits

The main benefits are:

·         Maintaining levels of innovation and remaining competitive

·         Being better placed to respond to external pressures

·         Having the knowledge to better link resources to customer needs

·         Improving quality of outputs at all levels

·         Improving Corporate image by becoming more people oriented

·         Increasing the pace of change within the organization

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