Building a Learning Culture

Learning culture is a phrase bandied about regularly without any agreed definition or criteria. What this means is that the phrase becomes meaningless. You have a learning culture if you say you have one. That is not helpful and there are good reasons for being a little more precise. So, let’s change the anomaly and have a great conversation about what it is, its importance, and it becomes a game changer for those organisations willing to go beyond sloganising. Then we will take the first steps together to build the process in your organisation.

This workshop will help you build a learning culture in your organisation, big or small. It will clarify what that means, illustrate some of the key benefits, and how you take the first steps towards building a learning culture that endures and adds value.

We will explore what a learning culture is
We will work out the steps needed to build one that endures
We will look at some organisations that have built one and discover what it has done for them
We will talk about some of the blockers and inhibitors that stop learning cultures developing

About Nigel:
Nigel Paine is a change-focused leader with a worldwide reputation and a unique grasp of media, learning and development in the public, private and academic sectors.

He has extensive experience in leadership and consultancy with public service broadcasters, SMEs, global industry players, government and education institutions.

Nigel focuses on the use of learning technologies, organisational development, leadership and creativity with a spotlight on maximising human potential, innovation and performance in the workplace. Nigel is a strategic thinker, able to motivate, lead and drive organisations forward to deliver business and training objectives.

Nigel has been involved in corporate learning for over twenty years. In the past, he has produced learning software, CD Roms and multimedia materials, and more recently, offered development and support to companies large and small in over 30 countries around the world.
He was appointed in April 2002 to head up the BBC’s Learning and Development operation. Under his leadership, the team developed a brand-new on-boarding experience, a comprehensive leadership development programme for over 6,000 staff, an award-winning intranet, and state of the art informal learning and knowledge sharing networks.

He left the BBC in September 2006 to start his own company that is focused on building great workplaces by promoting creativity, innovation, values based-leadership and learning and the link between them.

He speaks regularly at conferences around the world, and teaches on a doctoral programme at the University of Pennsylvania and for Chicago Booth Business School. His first book for Kogan Page is called, The Learning Challenge: Dealing with Technology, Innovation and Change in Learning and Development. It was published in September 2014. His new book, for the same publisher, on Building Leadership Development Programmes That Work was published in November 2016. He is currently working on a new book re-examining learning organisations and learning culture. He recently co-authored an eBook introduction to Neuroscience for Learning.

He has a Professorship from Napier University in Edinburgh, and is a Fellow of the CIPD, LPI, the RSA and a Masie Learning Fellow in the USA. He presents a monthly TV programme (Learning Now TV), shares a weekly podcast (with Martin Couzins) called From Scratch, and regularly writes articles for magazines and journals about development, technology and leadership.

Nigel has written articles and white papers published on subjects as diverse as ‘Creativity in the Workplace’, ‘Building Corporate Heroes’ and ‘The Future of E-Learning’.

http://www.nigelpaine.com/

Build a learning culture - Nigel Paine post-conference workshop (workshop-only rate for those not attending the conference)