My name is Gaetan Guénette and I'm the program coordinator at the School
of Business at Collège Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. My passion for
the concepts of the learning organization, that I have learned about only
in the last year, have brought me to the conclusion that our College
should transform itself into a learning organization. I have chosen this
subject to complete my MBA which I'm in the process of finishing. This
MBA-Executive management in Educational Administration at Royal Roads
University requires that we complete an OCP(organizational consulting
project) as our final thesis. My project is to produce an action plan to
implement the Learning Organization model at the college. There seems to
be literature available on advantages of being a learning organization but
it talks mainly about businesses and not postsecondary institutions. Some
postsecondary institutions are becoming learning colleges where everything
is centered around the learner but I feel it is very important to be a
learning organization before you can be a learning college. What do you
think?
Mr. Terry O'Banion mentions that it is important to establish the concepts
and processes of a Learning Organization as a sound basis but then it is
important to move on to become a Learning College. My project is to
establish a basis using the learning organization concepts based on
Senge's 5 learning disciplines: personal mastery, mental models, shared
vision, team learning, and systems thinking. I have not been able to find
any framework with the characteristics of an ideal learning organization
to use to assess where College Boréal stands in the framework of the
learning organziation according to Senge
I would appreciate any suggestions, documents or recommentaions that you
could provide.
Thank you
Gaetan Guenette
gaguenette@borealc.on.ca
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