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What does Peter Senge mean by a “learning organization”? How does a learning organization<\/a> compare to a more traditional organization?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Peter Senge, a learning organization is flexible. Compared to a traditional organization with a rigid, top-down power structure and strict rules, learning organizations are able to change and evolve with the times as their members do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s why a learning organization is better for everyone, and how you can create such an organization within your business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What Is a “Learning Organization<\/strong>“?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to Peter Senge, a learning organization is an organization that encourages its members to constantly learn and develop their skills, and in turn to use those skills to improve the organization. He argues that a learning organization is better for everyone: It\u2019s both more successful and more fulfilling than a traditional organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To create such a learning organization, or convert an existing organization into one, Senge provides five key practices (what he calls disciplines<\/em>) to start working into your daily life and company culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discipline 1: Constant Personal Growth<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To create an evolving organization, the people within that organization must be willing to learn. Senge says that you should see your life as a never-ending learning process and make a commitment<\/a> to constant growth and self-improvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senge says that personal growth<\/a> requires two things: clear goals to strive toward, and a creative mindset<\/a> so you can find ways to reach those goals. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dedication to constant improvement makes people feel more committed, happier, and more fulfilled in their work\u2014remember, people are naturally driven to learn.<\/strong> However, many companies don\u2019t encourage personal growth because they can\u2019t easily measure its effectiveness. Instead, those companies expect employees to focus on their day-to-day tasks and to do them \u201cby the book,\u201d with no room for personal growth or new discoveries. In doing so, they stifle people\u2019s potential and enthusiasm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discipline 2: Constant Worldview Improvement<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The second of Senge\u2019s disciplines is to improve your ability to see the big picture<\/a> by constantly assessing and updating what you <\/strong>think <\/em><\/strong>you know. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Senge calls mental models<\/a><\/em> are the closely-held beliefs and assumptions that make up your worldview<\/a>. Your worldview affects how you interpret your experiences, and it therefore constantly influences your thoughts and behavior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senge adds that it\u2019s impossible to have a completely correct worldview\u2014all worldviews are subjective and simplified versions of the truth. That’s why he calls on us to constantly examine and improve our worldviews: to make them more <\/em>correct, even though they\u2019ll never be 100% correct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senge adds that people often have great ideas about how to improve themselves or their organizations but fail to implement those ideas because they contradict their secretly held beliefs. For example, a store manager might have an idea for a fun event to boost employee morale and customer engagement yet never bring it up because he or she assumes that executives will reject the idea. The manager could challenge this worldview by pitching the idea anyway and seeing if his or her beliefs hold true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discipline 3: A Common Mission<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A common mission\u2014what Senge calls a <\/strong>shared vision<\/em><\/strong>\u2014forms when people orient their personal objectives toward an overarching goal.<\/strong> In other words, an organization comes together and says, \u201cThis is the future we want,\u201d and then each member of that organization does his or her best to realize that vision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having a common mission gives the organization the energy and perseverance to work toward its long-term goals. Organizations that don\u2019t have a common mission, on the other hand, won\u2019t work as hard because the employees don\u2019t have that motivation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That doesn\u2019t mean everyone has exactly the same vision, or that they sacrifice their personal aspirations for the common mission. Rather, everyone\u2019s personal motivations influence how they view the common mission: Each person will approach the common mission in a slightly different way based on their own experiences, duties, and worldview. <\/strong>In fact, when coming up with a common mission, Senge advises you to find out what\u2019s most important to each of your employees and to try to work those goals into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, say a sneaker manufacturer creates a common mission that everybody in the country will have at least one good, solid pair of sneakers. A company survey then reveals that many employees have personal goals of caring for their families and improving the local community. The company might weave those missions together by offering employee discounts (helping them care for their families by giving them shoes) and organizing charity drives to give shoes to impoverished and homeless people (helping employees create positive changes in the community). In this way, a common mission bolsters the company as a whole and the employees as individuals. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discipline 4: Group Evolution<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Group evolution\u2014what Senge calls team learning<\/em>\u2014is the process by which a group of people learns how to work together effectively and help each other reach their shared goals. Senge says that group evolution has three key aspects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Group-based worldview improvement. <\/strong>As we discussed previously, team members should work together to identify each other\u2019s faulty assumptions<\/a> and improve each others\u2019 worldviews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Spontaneous teamwork. <\/strong>A team that has learned to work together and evolve together will sometimes take actions that are unplanned, yet perfectly coordinated. Much like a trained and practiced troupe of improvisational actors, the team members understand and trust each other to the point that their teamwork becomes instinctual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Connections with other teams. <\/strong>Remember that your team is just one part of a larger system, and whatever decisions you make will likely need other teams from other parts of the organization to put them into practice. Therefore, it will benefit your team (and the organization as a whole) to promote group evolution practices among those other teams as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discipline 5: Big-Picture Thinking<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Most people are taught to break problems apart when trying to solve them. This is because supposedly, it\u2019s easier to learn about one thing at a time<\/a> and then put the pieces together to see how the whole system works. However, Senge argues that life isn\u2019t made of separate elements; rather, the world is made of countless different elements that come together to form systems.<\/strong> By trying to separate those elements from each other, you misrepresent how the world works and thus make it impossible to really understand what you\u2019re observing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one of Senge\u2019s rules of big-picture thinking<\/a>: Breaking up a system does not produce smaller versions of that system. <\/strong>For example, imagine trying to learn about cars by studying an engine\u2014you might learn more about that one piece of the system, but you can\u2019t extrapolate the rest of the car from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senge says that businesses often suffer from a lack of big-picture thinking. Instead of operating as one big system\u2014understanding that every part of the business will influence every other part\u2014many companies try to operate as many individual units, with each person or group only paying attention<\/a> to their own tasks. As a result, the different parts of the organization may interfere with each other without realizing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, an innovation allowing the company to ship more goods to a warehouse might seem beneficial, but it will put added strain on the warehouse employees and might lead to them quitting. Unless the company also ensures that the warehouse is prepared for the added workload, this apparently profitable innovation will hurt the company in the long run. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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