Aug 12, 2016

How Self-Managed Companies Help People Learn on the Job

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Earlier, the employee was trained to perform tasks once during the entire career path. Now, learning at work became full-time and requires everywhere. Even if you work for ten years at one workplace, you need additional knowledge and skills to be aware of each new technology in our fast-developed world. Self-managed organizations change the way the employees learn by engaging them in self-directed study.

How to make learning productive

First of all, motivate employees to diagnose their learning needs to know what skills and knowledge they need. For this purpose, provide an assessment to figure out the gaps or needs to increase the level. You may use ready tests or create your own here: http://app.itsquiz.com/ . Adapt your quizzes to your company and check your staff’s level.

Then, look for the way to study that fits you and your needs. You may pick more strict and traditional way to the learning to meet deadlines and to learn how you used to. Some people prefer modern approaches that are flexible and fresh, they like new methods and forms of the education. Many people save balance between old and new systems and switch them according to the goals.

Help co-workers to create goal-oriented learning schedule and gain digital learning skills, share the professional experience with each other. Encourage activities with learning such as online chats and coffee breaks with educational goals.

Make clear vision about company’s goals, what level they need and deadlines (optional). Coordinate the employees’ learning, advise, give them useful resources and tools.

Make free environment without any authority and compulsory rules in the education. Harvard Business Review’s research proved that without hierarchy team became well-knit for one mission. The vision about your company’s goal connects different co-workers and helps them to collaborate. The team is more effective power than one employee and it’s easier to learn in a group than alone in most cases. Show the employees that there are no requirements to learn: experience or budget, just willingness.

Give them autonomy in role selection. For example, Google lets its staff to change their professions up to their skills and wishes. The employees are motivated to study and improve their levels because they have freedom to be promoted or selected to the desired workplace. Many useful apps will help for the self-assign tasks, set goals, to collaborate and so on.

Make employees more focused on the task performance. Not to provide your meetings as boring formal time spending but make them as active discussions about current issues and solve the problems together, use the collective brain as well.

Benefits

Self-directed learning is cheaper than using expensive coaches or training. The employees may be more motivated when they can decide when, why and how to learn. They started to be more confident when they feel trust for the self-regulating during the education. They may use resources that they like and integrate their own ideas, spread them in the work team. Co-workers may study at their own pace using e-learning or written, without any waiting for schedule classroom lessons.

The main benefit is that the company get highly responsible and well-skilled person who are able to source and use information on their own. These employees are self-motivated and engaged to fit the organization’s requirements. Self-managed learning helps to increase competency and innovative ideas at work. It prepares great leaders ready to move forward and make a difference in the company.

These employees became more confident because they know that now they skilled enough to perform their tasks perfectly. They will grow by teaching other co-workers because in most cases people like to share their learning experience.

Self-organization is good management practice to engage employees and make them more responsible and skilled. So, make free environment without any authority. Harvard Business Review’s research proved that without hierarchy team became well-knit for one mission. The vision about your company’s goal connects different co-workers and helps them to collaborate.

Give them autonomy in role selection. The employees are motivated to study and improve their levels because they have freedom to be promoted or selected to the desired workplace. Many useful apps will help for the self-assign tasks, set goals, to collaborate and so on.