A video from Harvard business school about what is a Learning Organisation, and how to help develop one.
A questionnaire from Harvard Business School to assess where your team is in relation to this ideal
What are you looking for?
This video from the Harvard Business School provides an introduction to a method of assessing how closely your own team complies with some of the core features of a learning organisation. there is a particularly key part of the discussion from 4min 48sec, where they cover WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO to start to create a Learning Organisation...:
Online survey to assess your team's proximity to a "Learning organisation"
The survey referred to in the video above is freely available online here (note - the survey does not save your results, so cut and paste your scores onto a word document to save them) - or if you are online it will be displayed below:
'Learning Organisations' and AMBIT
AMBIT is designed to be an open system where the need for on-going learning, skill development and new knowledge is placed at the centre of the approach. This is partly because, at best, the desired outcomes of this area of work remain modest and the motivation is to find increasingly effective ways of offering help to troubled young people.
The intention is that AMBIT is designed so that it can be adapted and used in organisations with very different structures and organisational cultures. This includes both statutory and third sector organisations. However, we would advocate that, independently of formal structure, the organisation needs to attend to processes of learning.