"Every Enterprise is a Learning and Teaching Organization."
The concept and idea that a business needs to be a learning organization is nothing new of course, but from recent data, it looks like many businesses are falling short in this vital endeavor.
As we talked about recently, many companies are looking at a lot of exterior things that could impact a business, rather than internal mentoring and training that can make our people even better.
Drucker has said: "Management must enable an enterprise and each of its members to grow and develop as needs and opportunities change. Training and development must be built into it at all levels - nonstop."
I think the problem we all have as human beings, and by extension into business, is we hear something for so long, we start to be desensitized to it, and let the idea just roll along by itself. That seems to be what's happening in many businesses.
There are in many businesses a gap, or breaking of links in the learning chain. This causes disparity in a number of crucial areas that result in many businesses not knowing why a problem exists and how to handle it.
The most important thing we can do as business leaders is to embrace the importance of being a training organization, or we'll never get our people to adopt that as an important reality ever.
Only our commitment to our people in this way will ensure we have an engaged and excited workforce which is ready to the new challenges always facing them.
Our entire organization needs to be permeated with training as part of everyday life in it. I'm not talking about boring meetings where every person there can't wait to get out of them. I'm talking more the mentoring and hands on approach that deals with real issues as they arise.
We're also talking about leaders being secure in who they are, so they don't do the "hoarding of information" thing, because they feel if they share information they could be bypassed by others in the company.
The truth is the great leaders want their people to become far better than them. I even remember Herb Kelleher saying one time that the workers at Southwest Airlines let him be CEO because he doesn't know how to do anything else.
It's the secure business leaders that mentor and train their people to excel that will be the powerhouses both today and in the future. It takes a total commitment to them to make it happen.
Other Peter Drucker Resources:
The Man Who Invented Management
Beyond the Information Revolution
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