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© earthshine 2016
Leadership for Sustainability
M2 Sustainable Development: Organisational Perspectives
Seminar: The Learning Organisation
Malmö, February 23/24, 2016
Mike Townsend & Jean-Charles Languilaire
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• Frame: in context of
sustainable development
• Business perspectives
• Explore responses to the
changing landscape
• Dealing with complexity
• Concepts/models
• Critical perspectives: Are we
really learning?
• Practical insights and cases
• Lots of questions, interaction,
discussion, some group work
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Last time out, we explored…
The Learning Organisation: Are we learning – and fast enough?
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Last time out: where we got to…
• Business responses – are we
learning? Are we going far
enough, and fast enough?
• Exercise: how we think
businesses should respond
• Reality: we are barely scratching
the surface
• Limitations of BAU & CSR thinking
• Highlights tensions: embedded vs.
new learning
• New levels of learning – business
purpose!
• Case study – Unilever as a
learning organisation?
• Recognition: over-riding context of
our economic system
• Explored definitions & attributes
• Models – how learning happens, &
translates into performance
• How ‘learning’ is increasingly
important in VUCA world
• Many challenges and risks: great
acceleration, planetary
boundaries, global risks, etc
• But, also many opportunities!
Including SDGs, Global
Opportunity Report
• Further complexity: disruption!
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Developing our seminar
To what extent are organisations truly learning in
the volatile and challenging world we find ourselves
in, during the early 21st Century?
How are such organisations learning to become truly
sustainable in their own right?
Also, how is this learning making a contribution in support of
the transition towards a more sustainable world?
Framing the challenge…
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From your literature review and article synthesis
Develop a mini lecture!
What we are looking for…
* Explore your articles
* Identify key themes involved
* Build your synthesis
* Design your presentation
6 groups to present for 20 minutes each
Plus 10 minutes questions & discussion
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Our Schedule…
WEDNESDAY
• 8:15 – 12:00 Groups perform their
lectures.
• 13:15-15:00 Review, discussion
and feedback.
TUESDAY:
• 8:15 Share the challenge/establish
groups.
• 9:15 to 11:30 Group work – and
guidance.
• 11:30 Let’s check in – see how
we’re all doing.
• 12:00 Finish session.
• 24:00 Hand in your PowerPoint
slides.
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Identify your key themes…
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Categorise and establish points of focus
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Developing our seminar
Developing your syntheses…
Authors A B C D
Organisation A B C D
What do the
theories tell
us?
What’s
happening
in practice?
Key issues & themes
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Developing our seminar
• How are organisations learning – what approaches are they adopting
• What models do your see in evidence?
• How these models working – fully, partial, missing anything?
• What else should organisations be doing?
• How do they follow through: from learning to performance – any
evidence? What impact are organisations making?
• What factors enable learning? Barriers that hinder learning?
• Leadership: how do leaders encourage learning organisation?
• Are there any tensions between organisations embedding old learning
& being adaptive, to take on new learning?
• Literature gaps? Does the literature explore the issues adequately?
• What do researchers perhaps need to develop further?
Some guide questions…
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Welcome back: How was this morning…?
Inspired new 4 I’s
Intense
Interesting
Informative insights
Inspiration for the future…
Thank you!
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A reminder of our shared challenge…
To what extent are organisations learning in the 21st
Century?
How are organisations learning to become sustainable?
How is ‘learning’ contributing in the transition towards a more
sustainable world?
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Opening up the discussion…
What have we learned?
* Spend two minutes, talking with your colleague –
on the key insights you have gained.
* What have you found most surprising or
interesting?
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Let’s bring our learning together…
2 simple steps ;-)
1. Develop our framework
2. Build our collaborative model
Achievement: something to show for our efforts!
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Let’s bring our learning together…
Developing our framework…
How did we develop our points of focus, and
running order for our agenda?
1. Knowledge
2. Innovation
3. Performance
4. Culture
5. Structure
6. Leadership
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Our framework for collaborative design…
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Group collaborative design
What does our sustainable learning
organisation look like?
1. Each group – bring forward and draw your model
2. Include any issues/gaps
3. Build on each others’ work
4. Indicate any interdependencies
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Group collaborative design
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Group collaborative design
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Group collaborative design
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Group collaborative design
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Group collaborative design
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OK: Where did we end up…?
To what extent are organisations learning in the 21st
Century?
* Explored the topics
* Reviewed models, principles
* Empirical evidence – some gaps?
* Performance – needs reframing: triple bottom line
* Tensions: embedded vs. flexibility
* How we frame learning itself – learning to learn!
* Complex – many factors at play
* Leadership is key
* Big research agenda
We now have our own model(s)!
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Thank you!
@mike_earthshine