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President's Message—April 2007by Dawn Adams MillerPerspective on the Learning OrganizationThanks to Dick Handshaw and Heather Fausnaugh for their great presentation at the meeting this month. Managing a Learning Organization is an important topic and one, among many, that continues to evolve. Having been in a training position for several years I have seen things change yet stay the same. But some of the changes are positive. The focus on employee productivity vs. just training, the push for more business relevant training and metrics to show impact, and the understanding that just throwing training at a problem isn’t necessarily the answer are huge strides. I know it seems to those of us in the trenches that these changes happen at a snails pace and that some of these changes were obvious years ago but given my 20 years in the field, this is amazing progress. Sure we’ve got a long way to go. I personally am looking for the Matrix’s wetware approach where we just jack into the “system” and learn how to fly a helicopter in 30 seconds. But progress is being made and our learners are benefiting as we are too. I think it’s much more fun to be involved in the field today with all the possibilities than when it was just “Build me a class.” But I digress. Managing the Leaning Organization is still an issue. And Dick and Heather handled the areas and their individual responses beautifully. In looking at the feedback left on the evaluation sheets most of you felt that way. Since I’m a bit of an info maven, here are some resources to review to explore this issue a bit further: Developing and Managing Organizational Learning by Karen Overfield Hope those are of interest! Please plan on coming to the Allison Rossett Workshop on 5/24 at TIAA-CREF followed by our monthly chapter meeting at EPRI where Allison will again be our speaker. Cordially,Dawn Adams Miller
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