Learn as organisations

What do you believe about learning organisations?
(Adapted from Peter Honey, Learning Organisation Beliefs, checklist 1994) 

Some people find it easier than others to accept the concept of a learning organisation. Answer these questions and then discuss your responses with colleagues. Consider to what extent your own beliefs match the values in your museum, archive or library. Think about what may need to change for you personally and for your organisation.

Tick the statements you agree with to examine your own attitudes and cross those you disagree with. However marginal the difference, please respond to each question with a tick or a cross.

• I believe that you cannot make people learn, only make it more likely that they learn
• I believe that learning is too important to leave to chance
• I believe that the experiences I learn most from are the experiences others will learn most from
• I believe that complacency is the biggest enemy of continuous development
• I believe it is more important to learn from mistakes than to learn from successes
• I believe learning from experience mostly happens intuitively (i.e. it isn't necessary to do it deliberately or consciously)
• I believe that people learn, not organisations
• I believe that developing people is a primary responsibility of any manager
• I believe that the more senior you are, the less you need to learn
• I believe that learning is our core purpose and we deliver the results of that learning
• I believe learning has occurred when people can show that they know something they didn't know before and/or can do something they couldn't do before
• I believe that learning is best done at courses, conferences, seminars and workshops

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