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Building strategic linkages for learning

Building strategic linkages for learning

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Building strategic linkages for learning

- This may be surprising to hear, but your leaders see employee knowledge helping them gain an advantage over competitors. Why? Because employee knowledge is not the same across all organizations. While having knowledgeable employees allows companies to innovate in unique ways, it's useless if you're unable to connect it to meeting performance expectations. Let's look at some ways to connect your learning efforts to performance results. First, understand your organization's purpose. This allows you to discover what people must do so the organization can achieve specific results. Walmart clearly states, we save people money so they can live better. So their learning team focuses only on employee skills relevant to operational activities delivering on this promise. Identify precise activities and tasks within key operational areas. Sift out the essential operational tasks employees must to do deliver performance value. Let's revisit the Walmart mission. My guess is that purchasing…

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