Training versus a learning culture - what is the difference?
Learning is a key component of successful organizations' strategic plans. To remain relevant and viable, organizations need to be agile in a day when the workplace is changing rapidly. To be agile, our employees need to learn.
Training is a part of learning and typically happens for compliance purposes, or when a new initiative is launched. It is not a part of what employees do every day. Valuable time away from work is spent on training. To make it worth the investment, the learning gained during training needs to be transferred to the workplace.
In the future, training will not be enough. To be agile and responsive to the rapid changes in the workplace, people need to learn every day—and that learning needs to align with business goals. Training will still need to be part of the strategy but learning will be the core tenant of success.
Below is a simple graph to help explain the difference :
