Getting to the bottom of things: The promise of Learning Reviews

To sustain excellence in today's world of continual and disruptive change, the ability to learn and adjust your path as you go is essential. Yet many such learning efforts focus exclusively on the task and technical dimensions of the inquiry.

Harthill Learning Reviews (also called Learning Histories)

help you to see yourself, your relationships, your work and the outside world as inter-connected all the way down, each level affecting and being affected by the other. We help ensure you balance each dimension as you learn the lessons of what is working and why for your organisation. 

Would you like your organisation to become:

• really good at seeing how its engrained patterns of behaviour limit effectiveness?
• more robust when challenging its own strategic decision?
• wide awake to on-the-ground signals of what's working and what's not.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Harthill Learning Reviews are intensive learning efforts designed to provide feedback loops between intended and actual results of strategic work.
The Learning Review:

• accelerates leadership, team and organisational self-awareness
• drives effective strategic learning
• corrects operational inefficiencies fast

The Learning History approach:

• captures stories that people tell about a change effort and reflects them back to the organisation to help it to learn.
• presents the experiences of participants in a way that generalises the learning for the organisation as a whole and helps people to move forward effectively
• includes reports of actions and results and underlying assumptions and reasoning
• includes perspectives of a variety of people including those who did not support the effort
• tells the story in the participants' own words
• can be critical part of the organisational infrastructure to support learning
• is a tried and tested approach to building learning organisations

Learning Histories are multi-voice, multi-perspective inquiries into how critical events and outcomes have unfolded over time. The Learning History approach fosters learning across an organisation at operational, strategic and cultural levels. 

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be your only sustainable competitive advantage. 
Arie de Geus