Phd in ID – (Matt Meador)

[Paul Terlemezian]

Matt Meador https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-meador-5b910839/ will lead this conversation.

[Matt Meador]

Hello! It is a pleasure to learn something from you as I hope you learn something from me! 

I want to drop a question here and allow it to resonate in the back of your mind.

Can you define a learning organization? If you can, what would you define a learning organization as? 

Learning Organizations are an area of research that I have specialized in for the last three years in a doctoral program at The University of Memphis.

In the hour session, I aim to get your thoughts about the term "learning organization," as you have experienced the word in your career, or career path, education, or life experiences, and provide you with a detailed analysis of my research. I will be leaving you with an opportunity to become apart of the fabric of the study on the important term. 

[Paul Terlemezian]

I believe that learning is voluntary and involuntary - similar to breathing. We breather whether we are conscious of doing so - or not. We learn whether we are conscious of doing so or not.

What might a breathing organization do?

Would it allow others to breathe as they choose?

Would it prevent pollutants? Who decides what might be a pollutant?

What responsibilities do we have as breathers - regarding what we inhale and exhale?

[Dr. J. Nathan Rogers]

Matt,

These are excellent rhetorical considerations around learning organizations. I wish I were able to be there and hope you will share a couple of other thoughts I have for the community around a “Learning Organization” as exploration.

There are  likely to be many individual definitions regarding what defines a learning organization. Is it worth exploring the nature of a learning organization as a culture? Within the culture of a learning organization are questions to explore.  

1. We often hear people describe Starbucks not as a coffee shop, but as a culture. Is a learning organization something that must take of a culture of learning vs. the ideal of a learning organization as we might define it?
2. Who drives a learning organization, leadership, or team members?
3. Is a learning organization merely a framework (resources and opportunity) provided by leadership and executed bottom-up?

[Paul Terlemezian]

Nathan - we are planning monthly events for Georgia LEARNS in 2020 - if your interests bring you this way next year we will try to build an event that includes you.

[Dr. J. Nathan Rogers]

Paul - Count me in. If I know far enough in advance I can balance work and being there. Do you have an idea at this point when the calendar will come out for next year, Paul? 

[Bill Crose]

Hi Matt!

It was nice meeting you in person at GL.

We didn't get much time to talk there, but I went in with the experience of a learning organization as defined by Jeanne Meister (Corporate University) and am ready to help companies change from that orientation to more of a corporate performance assurance organization. 

Good luck in the UK this week!