Help with developing and maintaining a culture of learning

The workplace provides excellent opportunities for learning and ‘continuous professional development’. However, many workplace settings also throw up considerable obstacles to learning. The net result of this can be stagnation. Instead of employees becoming more knowledgeable, more skilled and more confident over time, they can become more disillusioned, more stale and more disaffected by forms of work that are unstimulating, unchallenging and thus unrewarding. There is therefore much to be gained from identifying obstacles to learning and exploring means of removing them, bypassing them or at least minimising their impact. This is something that we can each do individually or jointly as part of a team effort. To find out more, choose from the menu below.

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Publications by Neil Thompson to help you with the promotion of workplace learning

Promoting Workplace Learning

Promoting Workplace Learning is an important book that provides a valuable overview of the key issues involved in successful promotion of workplace learning. It covers developments in traditional practice learning, and also wider aspects of workplace learning such as coaching and mentoring, and the development of a learning culture in an organisation.

Buy Promoting Workplace Learning from The neil thompson Bookshop

You will find a more detailed account of the book on Neil Thompson's website.


 

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