This is the seventh post in my microblog series, “Evolving with the Modern Learning Culture.” Click here to start with the first post.
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To continue to evolve with the learning culture, I encourage you to reflect as a team.

Reflection in Modern Culture

I’ve identified four main drivers of modern learning culture. One key influencer is that globally dispersed virtual teams are everywhere. These virtual teams are not only geographically disconnected, but they are comprised of many different cultures. This distance can hurt individual and team performance. Requiring reflection can help bridge the gaps inherent to global and virtual teams. We all have a lot of inner thoughts, but when teams consider their work, learning continues to happen. In the modern learning culture, individual employees must reflect on their own performance and then share with the group.

The Value of Reflection

In training, we have an awareness that reflection or debriefing is very powerful. In fact, so much learning takes place during reflection. If we teach people to debrief, and we model debriefing well, we can start to impact the modern learning culture.

Encouraging Reflection

Luckily, social collaborative networks and communities of practice make it easy to include reflection in our learning programs. Social collaborative networks and communities of practice provide safe places to address short comings and share best practices. Ultimately, thanks to reflection, best practices become common practices. They’ll no longer be something to strive for – they’ll be something teams are already doing.

Final Thoughts

If you’re going to evolve with the modern learning culture, it’s necessary to encourage team reflection. Why? Because when people are willing to say, “I don’t understand.” or “I’m having a hard time with this, can you help me?” it builds trust. We can then model the trust and reflection established during learning programs in our working environment. That moves us towards the ultimate goal: impacting work culture and on-the-job performance through learning.

For additional information and support, download the infographic, What is Driving the Modern Learning Culture?, and watch the recording of my BYTE presentation, The Modern Learning Culture – What Makes it Tick?

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This post originally appeared on the InSync Training Blog, “Body Language in the Bandwidth.”