Gina Abudi is the founder of Abudi Consulting Group and is a foremost expert on the topic of leadership.

According to Wikipedia, a learning organization is defined as “an organization that facilitates the learning of all its members and continuously transforms itself.”

The concept of a learning organization was later refined by Pedler, Burgoyne and Boydell in The Learning Company: A Strategy for Sustainable Development, as:  “An organization that facilitates the learning of all its members and continuously transforms itself and its context.”

Too many organizations believe, because they provide training to their employees, that they have a learning culture.  However, training alone is most certainly not enough to create a true culture of learning within the organization.   (more…)