Developing Learning Styles and Strategies that Promote and Spread Knowledge
Have you worked in an organization that is resilient in the face of uncertainty and able to use the skills of every individual and transfer knowledge widely within the ranks? In this program, to be launched in 2008, you and your colleagues will acquire and practice the skills and processes to build this sort of effective learning environment.
While there are several definitions of “learning organizations”, our unique program focuses on you can enhance your organization’s capacity to learn. That means understanding and harnessing the process of learning. First, what does your organization need to learn? What are the core competencies it needs to succeed? What does it need to be good at? Research has shown that enterprises are surprisingly weak in this area.
Second, are appropriate practices in place to acquiring knowledge? What is your organization’s learning “style”? Is it an innovator that creates new knowledge or does it exploit existing knowledge by consulting with experts or benchmarking? Third, are individuals applying what they have learned and reflecting on it? And fourth, are there processes and systems in place to capture and store the knowledge so that it can be shared widely?
This three-day program will offer practical tools and strategies, based on a solid foundation of research, that will help you advise senior management on a learning strategy and champion its cause within your organization.
Your opportunity
During this three-day program you will learn to:
Define the learning focus that will give your organization the greatest impact
Assess and enhance the effectiveness of your organization's preferred learning style
Enhance your organization's ability to create and implement ideas with impact
Remove barriers to learning and cultivate supportive learning levers
Ensure that new insights are captured, stored, and shared across boundaries (temporal, geographical, horizontal, vertical)
Who benefits?
People management practitioners, team leaders, and external and internal consultants who are involved in improving organizational effectiveness.
Program leaders and trainers Brenda Barker (Chair) and a variety of faculty.
Dates and Fees Fall 2008: November 25 - 27 - $2,950.00 - Register
Includes registration, tuition, lunches, some dinners and all instructional
materials.
If you register and pay two months prior to the opening date of the seminar,
you will receive a $150 discount.
Sessions begin on the Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. and ends on the Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
Facilities
Donald Gordon Conference Centre is Queen's internationally renowned executive development facility. The Centre is located on 421 Union Street, between Queen’s main and west campuses. For more information on the facility, please go to: http://www.dgc.queensu.ca/. Please book your accommodations at Donald Gordon Centre directly with Claire Grazette, DGC’s Conference Planner, at 613 533 2221 ext. 3601 or by email at grazette@post.queensu.ca. <See Map for Directions...>
