Dive Brief:
- It's one matter to continuously improve processes in an organization, but it's also necessary to relentlessly improve the skills of the people who perform the actual work, says Andy Fleming, contributor at Harvard Business Review.
- In their book "An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization", Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey and co-author Fleming studied several different organizations to uncover the value placed on human learning. Organizations and people have a symbiotic relationship as each thrives.
- Deliberately Developmental Organizations (DDO) are better prepared to meet the challenges of changing markets because they are already encouraging employees to retain current skills and seeking new learning opportunities.
Dive Insight:
The concept of the DDO is something that has been explored and added as part of the corporate culture of many organizations. However, are companies doing enough to support the learning and development goals of individual employees? Currently, this is improving, but there are still many companies that are solely focused on new hire onboarding and training, which drops off once an employee becomes familiar with their assigned tasks.
It's critical that organizations keep employees plugged in so that they become proficient and productive. When learning is tied to performance, it then is a factor that supports the growth goals of the company.
