Turning Your Workplace into a Learning Environment

Create an environment for continuous learning and growth in business and personal areas where employees are expected to access Trainer Led sessions, e-Learning modules and self-study. 

• Obtain executive commitment to continuous learning 
• Have executive management communicate its importance to the entire organisation 
• Communicate the benefits and value of learning
• Integrate skills attainment into the performance assessment process
• Encourage managers to work with individual employees to establish learning expectations and hold people accountable – both managers and staff
• Foster an attitude that learning is expected
• Establish incentives for learning
• Ensure all learners have or have access to the hardware and software required to access e-Learning   

Some companies have found that a key barrier to self-paced learning is that learners don’t know how to learn without structure and human interaction.

• Provide a schedule, with deadlines, and follow up by email regularly to check on their progress and let them ask questions. 
• Schedule learning sessions and mark them on your calendar so that everyone knows you will be in training during a specific time slot.
• Minimise interruptions during the learning session:
• Forward your telephone, turn it off or do not answer it if it rings
• Post “Learning in Progress” signs or use caution tape on your door or learning area
• If listening to an audio eLearning module, use headphones and play the audio component of the course
• Wear headphones even if not using the audio component of the course to tone down outside noise and so that others will know you are accessing training

Observe e-Learning etiquette rules:

• Do not interrupt anyone actively participating in a learning session.
• Play the audio component of the course only when you are using headphones.
• Avoid interrupting your coworkers by using the e-Learning courses as job aids.

 Take responsibility for your own skills development.