Summary of Session 1 (Learning organization in our workplace)

Based on different people’s sharing on their experience of the learning organization in their working place, it is possible to summarize as follow:

In order to enhance the learning organization in the working place, it is necessary to reflect on the following items and see what can be done to improve.
1. Providing professional training
It is useful to offer training course to the staff/teachers in order to equip them with basic and essential skills in their working area. Beside, the course can also used to share the mission and vision of the company/ school with the staff/teachers to help them understand the background of the company/school. Also, training courses on the newly develop working skills and new trend in the industry should be held to encourage the staffs/ teachers to try new things. Lastly, company/school can also tried to organize some courses which is based on the staff/teachers’ need and interest, the company/ school can based on the feedback and comment from them to decide what kind of course can be included in the training program of staff.

2. Leaders’ characteristic
The leader’s characteristic will affect the learning organization a lot. Some of the leaders which like to dominant all the times may demanded his/her sub-ordinates to follow strict instruction and reject new ideas, this will hinders the learning of the team and also his/her sub-ordinates will become not willing to share their views and idea in improving the working efficiency. On the other hand, if the leader are able to encourage his/her sub-ordinates to discuss when problem arise, to identify the problem together and invite them in some decision making process can encourage the whole company/ school to develop a collaborative working climate and people inside should be able to learn and willing to learn more.

3. Set up and refine of the policy
When problem arise, we should identify the problem together with the staff/ teachers by discussion. And after that, it is essential to think if the solution together, and announce new policy to help to prevent the problem happened again.
In order to keep the efficiency of working, besides announcing new policy we should also refine the original policy time by time.

Even though it seems that there are different ways which can help to increase the learning inside the working place, there is a problem that will hinder the learning organization which is nowadays, teachers are too busy, it maybe a bit difficult for them to follow the suggestions above. Moreover, we have the method, we also need to have the staffs who are willing to try, in order to encourage them, I think shared vision is really important, if the staffs do have a shared vision with the company/school they are working in, then it is much easier to ask them to follow the suggestion.