Learning Organizations: Make Learning a Part of Your Company’s Culture

Last week, CLASSUM released the second part of our blog series, HRxEdTech: 3 Mistakes Hindering Continuous Learning in Your Company. This week’s post introduces the final mistake that might hinder continuous learning from thriving in your company: considering the success of corporate training as a separate matter from the company’s goals.

Traditionally, the standard of evaluating a successful versus a failed corporate training program is viewed in a very narrow perspective of simply whether a certain employee can perform a certain skill. Due to such misguided goals of corporate training, HR managers often fall into the mistake of focusing on only the quantitative accomplishments of training such as how many employees complete all the coursework, or how high the participants score in quizzes. However, the main goal of corporate training should be to continuously upskill employees to drive the company’s growth to a higher level in the long term. To initiate such growth, employees must not only be able to perform the skill but also fully understand why that skill is important and how they should use it during their work. This way, they can take ownership of their learning and actually put it to use. Thus, aligning the purpose, method, and content of corporate training with the company’s culture and goals is a crucial issue for HR managers.

However, an issue that often interferes with aligning company culture with training is that corporate culture is continuously reformed according to the ever-changing landscape of the workforce. This is where continuous learning can help to break down the barriers between work and learning. Providing educational opportunities to employees should not only take place when they are newly hired but also when they wish to acquire new skills to adapt to changes in their work. So what is a way companies drive continuous learning and align this form of training with their culture?

In the case of CLASSUM, we emphasize three core values: Shine, Uplift, and Motivate. Among these three values, continuous learning is related to “uplifting,” and we practice this value by creating an environment where employees appreciate and recognize those who share important knowledge and experiences with others. Although this culture may seem trivial, such appreciation becomes a powerful motivation for employees to voluntarily partake in knowledge sharing. It also encourages other employees to share their knowledge as well, so learning and sharing knowledge become widespread. Aside from CLASSUM, other companies such as Google and Amazon are also emphasizing the need to foster a culture that appreciates employees for participating in learning.

CLASSUM can help your company create this kind of continuous learning culture within your team. CLASSUM has its own reaction emoticons that are called SUMojis, which make it easier for employees to react to others’ posts and show appreciation toward their contribution. Moreover, CLASSUM allows participants to upload a variety of content from VODs to notes and URLs. This lowers the pressure for members to upload only high-quality content, encouraging more employees to participate in learning together without extra inconvenience. As such, CLASSUM helps companies align continuous learning with corporate culture and provides an optimized training platform to successfully drive continuous learning.

In summary, it is important to include learning and training in the company’s culture in order to make it continuous rather than let it pass as a one-time occurrence. To do this, HR managers should work to provide the right space to conduct continuous learning and foster a culture that recognizes those who contribute to company-wide growth and learning.

So far, we have discussed three common mistakes when striving to drive continuous learning in your company. As hinted from the word “continuous,” conducting such a form of corporate training requires a constant effort from both administrators and employees. CLASSUM hopes this blog series will help HR managers of various organizations encounter fewer challenges along the way when finding the best methods to upskill employees and drive organizational growth.

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