Performance Networks

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Learning

Learning comes naturally for those who care about the work they do. They want to improve individual skills and get better results. The best work teams almost organically seek best practices. Organizational culture can strengthen or dampen learning, so leadership charged with transforming a specific organization or launching a multi-agency initiative needs to explicitly identify forums for individual, team, and organizational learning. With leadership support, continuous learning rises as an inherent quality of performance networks.

In a network, communication and coordination cannot be separated from organizational learning. It is stunning how learning in a network easily crosses geographic boundaries and sometimes seems ...