LEARNING — LEARNING THROUGH WORK & COMMUNITY

People learn most when development is connected to work that matters

Capability rarely grows through content alone. It grows through experience, feedback, challenge, relationships, practice and the opportunity to make sense of what happens next. MJA helps organisations create the systems, experiences and communities that make that kind of learning more likely.

From learning events to learning environments

We are interested in what happens before, between and after formal learning. What opportunities do people have to practise? Who helps them reflect? Where does useful knowledge travel? What happens when somebody encounters a problem for which there is no course?

Those questions shift attention from delivering learning to building capability.

Learning & Capability Systems

Create the architecture and internal capability through which people can keep developing at scale.

Action Learning & Enterprise Challenges

Use real strategic and organisational work as the medium through which people develop.

Communities of Practice

Connect distributed expertise so that people become better at their work through one another.

Learning happens between experience and reflection

A programme may be part of the answer. So might coaching, a community, a live challenge, a simulation, workplace experimentation, peer feedback or a simple tool available at the moment someone needs it.

We design combinations that fit the capability being developed.

Learning made real

At Heathrow, the question expanded from training provision to the design of a whole organisational learning environment.

At KFAS, live innovation challenges became the principal vehicle for developing capability.

At AB Sugar, communities connected expertise across businesses and countries and were studied over time to understand the value they created.

Selected client stories: Heathrow · KFAS · AB Sugar · De Beers

Where does the most important learning in your organisation actually happen?

We can help you connect formal development with the work, relationships and experiences through which capability really grows.