What is a learning culture?
The culture of learning iscollective and individual ability of your employees to be - and remain - in a learning position throughout their career within a company.
Each employee is committed to learning, to cultivating their learning, not only for themselves but also for the whole team and the company.
Clearly, each employee is a stakeholder in the evolution of a company.
The learning culture involves having a collective state of mind in which all employees want to develop their learning and become real learners. It is used in particular in educational engineering.
So why promote a culture of learning and so becoming a learning business ?
The benefits of a learning culture
There are many benefits to a learning culture if you are a company that cares about doing talent retention a priority! Employees are less likely to leave a company when they are constantly learning. In this sense, the learning culture also allows promote the commitment of your employees. Apprenticeship is an integral part of the motivating and engaging factors of your company's employees. A company that meets the need to develop the skills of individuals and that values them promotes the engagement of learners in addition to their culture.
Indeed, it is not only a question of learning for the company to develop: it is also a question of developing its employees and their employability, who will be grateful and will want to invest and project themselves. Especially since the learning culture stimulates the creativity of your employees and allows your company to capitalize on employee involvement in the long term !
How do you create a learning culture?
To become a true learning organization, understand that the learning culture goes well beyond the training, tools or other methods made available to employees. First of all it is a state of mind to be adopted. It will thus be necessary to:
- Take a different look at failure
This includes accepting the right to make mistakes on the part of your employees. It is not uncommon for success to be preceded by failures! These can help to make progress. Difficult to experiment if the right to make mistakes is not allowed. While the word “failure” can be scary, you can think of it more as a testing or as a testing.
- Welcome the challenge
Be in good faith: just because you are a manager doesn't mean you should always know The good answer. To create a successful learning culture, keep in mind that two available brains are better than one: encourage your teams to question you, challenge ideas, and promote theirs.
- Do gamification
Do some Gamification, it means promoting fun pedagogy. En Digital learning, gamification is very useful to fill the lack of motivation of an employee who is left alone in front of his learning medium. It exists in this sense different forms of gamification.
- Encourage the diversity of paths in collective learning
To develop a learning culture, it is necessary to be able to encourage collective learning. But be careful: within learning teams, you must also be able to promote diversity in teams and think outside the box. For a richer learning culture, therefore, rely on varied profiles whose backgrounds, origins, culture and training courses differ.
What to remember
A learning culture is one of the cornerstones of employee engagement. by allowing them to develop. It allows you to:
- Valuing your employees
- To retain them
- To maintain your talents, in a context of significant turnover
Finally, the learning culture starts with the adoption of a new state of mind (questioning, welcoming failure, contradiction, etc.)
For a good learning culture, consider:
- Making gamification an advantage for training
- Promote the culture oflearning collective
- Diversifying the profiles of your employees for richer learning
