In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive edge is your
organisation’s ability to learn faster than it’s competitors
Peter Senge.
“By design and by talent” wrote basketball player Bill Russell of his team , the Boston Celtics “we
were a team of specialist, and like a team of specialists in any field, our performance depended both
on individual excellence and on how well we worked together. None of us had to strain to
understand that we had to complement each other’s specialities; it was simply a fact, and we all
tried to figure out ways to make our combinations more effective”
Another consideration:
How can a team of committed managers with individual IQ’s above 120 have a collective IQ of 63?
TEAM LEARNING
Fritz B Simon wrote in Soziale Systeme.
A learning organization is an organization which is able to change its rules of communication. To do
it needs means of observing its own rules and of evaluating whether or not the knowledge implicit in
them is still appropriate. The manager and the consultant, as the ones who “know” how to “run” a
company, must be reconstructed. Their authority can be reconstructed by making use of the
intelligence of self-reflective communication processes within the organization.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME:
In three days participants will be taken through a programme that will introduce them to all aspects
of THE LEARINING ORGANISATION which concludes with a final Module LEARNING TEAMS.
THE PROGRAMME.
DAY 1
PERSONAL MASTERY.
Learning to expand our personal capacity to create the results we most desire and creating an
organizational environment which encourages all its members to develop themselves toward the
goal and the purpose they choose. You cannot give something that you don’t have.
Personal Mastery and Leadership is a cornerstone of the Learning Teams.
MENTAL MODELS.
Reflecting upon, continually clarifying, and improving our internal pictures of the world, and seeing
how they shape our actions and decisions.
DAY 2
SYSTEMS THINKING
A way of thinking about, and a language for describing and understanding, the forces and inter
relationships that shapes the behaviors of systems more effectively, and to act more in tune with the
larger processes of the natural and economic world.
SHARED VISION.
Building a sense of commitment in a group, by developing shared images of the future we seek to
create, and the principles and guiding practices by which we hope to get there.
DAY 3
TEAM LEARNING
Transforming conversational and collective thinking skills, so that that groups of people can reliably
develop intelligence and ability greater than the sum of the individual member’s talents.
AS LEARNING TEAM DISCUSS AND EXPLORE;
MAINTENANCE PRINCIPLES
- Starts with the decision what do we want to achieve.
- Looking at the different options as a Learning Team.
- How do we implement this?
- Impact of OEE on Profitability
- Evolution of Maintenance
- Autonomous Maintenance
WHO NEEDS TO ATTEND?
Every person that is a part of the maintenance set up in the organization. It could include the
operators and management TEAM.
This programme is aimed at the whole organization as the impact of becoming a Learning
Organization will effect a Culture Change.Acknowledgements:
- The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization is Authored by Peter M Senge in the book THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE.
- Edgar H Scheine is author of THE CORPORATE CULTURE SURVIVAL GUIDE
- Fritz B Simon authored Sociale Systeme
- John C Maxwell is author of:
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
27 Years in Top Management Position of which 17 Years as Managing Director. Involved since 2002
in the introduction of several new strategic directions for the company of which the” Full Service and
Country Service “at a leading supplier of Electrical and Control Equipment continued until retirement
from Corporate functions. As “The Slight Edge “providing facilitation for three Global in house
Management and Leadership development programmes. Has implemented The Learning
Organization at three local RSA companies.
www.theslightedge.co.za