Body of Knowledge · Glossary
Learning organisation
An organisation designed to turn experience into shared capability. Incident learnings travel between teams, postmortem actions are audited to completion, slack is funded for learning, and leadership reviews ask what was learned.
Where the standard develops it
- CC-2Coaching versus directingDeveloping judgment in others.
Related terms
- Coaching versus directing
- Developing someone's judgment through questions, as against supplying the answer.
- GROW model
- A coaching structure (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) that gives "ask before telling" a shape a manager can hold in a one-on-one.
- Rescuing
- Stepping in with the solution the moment someone struggles.
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Chicago, BibTeX and licence →Engineering Management Academy. (2026). Learning organisation. In Engineering Management Academy Body of Knowledge (Version 3.1, GLO.learning-organisation). https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/glossary/learning-organisation