What did you learn at work today? 
“Every employee who wants to succeed in business should read Tobin’s new book.” ―Marshall Goldsmith, million-selling author of the New York Times bestsellers Mojo and What Got You’re Here Won’t get You There “Nothing less than a survival plan for a rewarding, relevant career. Read it if you are responsible for the careers and performance of others. Read it if you want to propel your own career. . . In any case, read it as part of your own commitment to learning.” ―Edward T. Reilly, President and CEO, American Management Association International In today’s highly competitive work environment, continuous learning is an absolute necessity―a requirement to keep up with the latest innovations in your field and increase your productivity. Learn Your Way to Success helps you launch your career to new heights by being an “active learner.” It provides invaluable tools for:
<ul>
<li>Planning your personal learning agenda </li>
<li>Applying what you learn in a practical way </li>
<li>Using online learning resources to “learn what you need to learn” </li>
<li>Maximizing your learning at conferences or trade shows </li>
<li>Taking advantage of the unique learning opportunities of working in a team </li>
<li>Keeping track of what you have learned―and what you want to learn</li>
</ul>

Learn Your Way to Success: How to Customize Your Professional Learning Plan to Accelerate Your Career

Business & Money

Tobin, Daniel R.

Job Hunting & Careers

McGraw=Hill

Presents five approaches--strong visible leadership, "thinking" literacy, overcoming functional myopia, creating effective learning teams and managers as enablers--essential to create a true learning organization. By focusing on the learning requirements of employees, companies can impact major change initiatives such as reengineering and TQM.

Re-Educating the Corporation: Foundations for the Learning Organization

Biography & History

wiley

In their headlong rush to transform themselves to meet the challenges of global competition, companies have invested millions in new technologies and grand reengineering schemes. In all too many cases, the outcomes have been smaller, disgruntled staffs and, from a competitive standpoint, business as usual, or worse. As Daniel R. Tobin demonstrates in this groundbreaking book, while technology may help to facilitate change, change always originates with people. That's why today's most successful businesses are those in which individuals at every level—from the mailroom to the executive suite—are committed to acquiring new knowledge and skills that will help their company win the battle for market share. While the concept of the learning organization is not new—it has been a major theme in corporate America ever since Peter Senge's 1990 classic The Fifth Discipline—until now, no single source provided the tools needed to translate that vision into everyday reality. 
The first nuts-and-bolts guide to building a learning organization, Transformational Learning supplies step-by-step guidance and the tools you need to put learning organization concepts into daily practice. You'll learn how to align your group's learning initiatives with long-range company goals, develop a renewable learning system, measure the group's learning "vital signs," develop partnerships with key leaders throughout the organization, and much more. And with the help of many instructive and inspiring case studies from major North American and international companies, including Corning, PPG, Amoco, and Sun Microsystems, you'll discover how real people have successfully implemented transformational learning principles to help their organizations bounce back from crises, sustain and magnify successes, and forge a powerful new competitive edge. Drawing upon more than 20 years of experience as a leading corporate education expert, Tobin also introduces an array of original tools and techniques that have yielded remarkable results in case after case. He describes a dynamic new model that helps companies maximize the capture and use of crucial information. He details a revolutionary approach to benchmarking that helps you zero in on and exploit the best knowledge and skill resources available both within and outside your company. And he provides a comprehensive new method for building a knowledge network and tying it effectively into your company's transformational goals. A comprehensive guide to making learning organizational principles a practical reality in your organization, Transformational Learning is a must read for every manager, executive, and team leader. "The solid linkage Dan Tobin forges between the core value of continuous learning and the never-ending quest for profitability is an essential extension to the idea of the Learning Organization. Small, medium, and large companies can use Tobin's ideas to create a learning strategy that directly supports corporate renewal and long-term growth." —Theodore B. Kinni Founder, The Business Reader "To survive in this constantly changing new world, a company will have to renew itself many times in its life cycle; the key to renewal will be learning. This book is a must read for both the CEO and the training manager of the company who want to better understand their roles for that life cycle and the attainable future." —Ray Morrison, PhD Administrator, Lockheed Technical Institute "Transformational Learning focuses people on a vision of what they need to learn to take action and ownership for changing themselves and their jobs. It is the engine that drives people to achieve their company's strategic goals . . . that is what measures the real success or failure of a corporate training function." —Joe Slezak Mercury Marine "This is the best book I know of that can be used by leaders to build organizational commitment to understanding and achieving excellence." —James R. Marchant Vice President, Human Resources Avenor, Inc. "Dan Tobin's Transformational Learning: Renewing Your Company Through Knowledge and Skills aids business leaders in understanding how to use information technology, not be victimized by it. I recommend that business leaders expecting to prosper beyond the next five years read this book." —Steven J. Bomba Vice President, Technology Johnson Controls, Inc. "This immensely readable book can help improve any manufacturer, large or small." —Joan Carvell Vice President California Manufacturing Technology Center

Transformational Learning: Renewing Your Company Through Knowledge and Skills

Management & Leadership

If the knowledge and skills of employees are a company's biggest competitive asset, why are so many organizations riddled with unproductive, irrelevant training departments and activities? 
Because they're being ripped off in a $50 billion "Great American Training Robbery," says Daniel Tobin in this strong, frank -- and ultimately rejuvenating -- critique of the current state of employee learning. And it's time for senior managers and human resources professionals to enact change. 
Tobin outlines a new approach to learning, one that links "training and development" with viable, job-related, bottom-line driven activities. His model operates on individual, work unit, and corporate levels, with each area continually sharing information and skills -- to create a dynamic, actively learning, knowledge-enabled organization. 
Filled with instructive real-world examples, The Knowledge-Enabled Organization supplies a comprehensive and practical game plan for implementing this kind of strategic, results-driven training. It explains how to: 
** transform the way that training departments think and act ** ensure that every training dollar spent contributes to corporate financial goals -- and individual career goals ** expand and diversify an employee's learning activities ** create a knowledge network to support learning ** build and maintain a positive learning environment.

The Knowledge-Enabled Organization: Moving from "Training" to "Learning" to Meet Business Goals

Amacom Books

Omne_o

Over the next 5 to 10 years, companies will be faced with retiring baby boomer leadership talent and will need to develop the next generation of leaders. Many large companies have substantial leadership development programs in place, but what about small to mid-sized companies facing the same talent crisis but without the resources or programs to replace their key leaders? Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline provides a blueprint for leadership development precisely for these smaller companies. It presents a menu of options to identify high-potential talent, define key leadership competencies in your company, provide easy-to-implement steps to build a leadership development program, harness the power of mentoring and coaching, evaluate program effectiveness, and calculate what it will cost.

Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline: How to develop the Next Generation of Leaders in Small to Mid-Sized Companies

Association for Talent Development

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Learn Your Way to Success: How to Customize Your Professional Learning Plan to Accelerate Your Career

Re-Educating the Corporation: Foundations for the Learning Organization

Transformational Learning: Renewing Your Company Through Knowledge and Skills

The Knowledge-Enabled Organization: Moving from "Training" to "Learning" to Meet Business Goals

Re-Educating the Corporation: Foundations for the Learning Organization

Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline: How to develop the Next Generation of Leaders in Small to Mid-Sized Companies