Driving Success Model
by Investors in Learning
To make good decisions we need a framework, and effective thinking tools. Our Driving Success Model includes factors and processes to help people and organisations thrive and provides an essential framework for long term success.
The world continues to change rapidly. With the outbreak of a global pandemic, we are seeing unprecedented changes globally and we are having to respond like never before. The pace of change and our need to adapt and learn rapidly is more acute than any of us have experienced it before.
Quite apart from the pandemic, developments in globalisation, demographics, technology, regulations, politics are affecting everyone and organisations in every sector across the world. The pace of change will not change once this pandemic is over. It is a permanent and ongoing state.
Now more than ever we are all seeing that there are not many certainties in life and organisations. The one thing we all know is certain is Change and that there will always be things in life that are out of our control. Our Continuous Learning, our ability to adapt positively, with effective self-management and leadership to enhance our decision making skills, even (and especially!) whilst under pressure, are essential resources so that we can navigate these turbulent, unpredictable times.
The Investors in Learning Driving Success Model has been designed to develop effective, future-proofed, agile people and organisations; to help individuals, teams and organisations to be able to focus on the factors that will steer their Culture, Strategy, Processes and Capabilities effectively for long term sustainable success.
For this we need a model and clarity about the factors we need to focus on which serve to create a Dynamic Learning Environment and the essential Agility; to create a Continuous Learning Culture with the ingredients that create Success Habits, so that effective Continuous Learning behaviours can flourish into the long term.
What is the Driving Success Model?
An Overview
Key purpose and benefits
- A Framework that provides the key ingredients for developing and maintaining an Agile Resilient Continuous Learning Culture
- A Quality Framework against which to assess the practice of individuals, teams and organisations
- A Needs Analysis tool to assess your individual, team and organisational needs, challenges and priorities (please see here for more information)
- A Competency Framework & Measurement tool to measure traits in relation to all the ingredients for individuals, teams and organisations (please see here for more information)
- A Design tool to create Learning and Development Solutions that directly address your needs and desired vision
- A Monitoring tool to measure progress and ensure that we are focusing on the right elements over time and as conditions change
- A Dialogue Generator to uncover and address root causes
- A Thinking tool to help organise our thoughts and planning around the essential ingredients for building Resilient Learning Cultures and Organisations and helps us to consider the relationships between the elements
DRIVING SUCCESS MODEL
by Investors in Learning We developed our Driving Success Model by drawing on research of the Learning Process, Brain-Science, the external and internal factors and conditions that are essential for effective learning, as well as research and best practice for what actually works in the workplace. Copyright 2019 Investors in Learning. All Rights Reserved.
BUILDING RESILIENT LEARNING CULTURES
- Understand all ingredients of the Driving Success Model that drive a Continuous Learning Culture
- Apply the Power of the Resilient Continuous Learning Culture to develop Psychological Safety, Agility, Engagement & Peak Performance
LEADERSHIP
Support to develop:- Learning Leaders who foster Resilient Learning Cultures increasing Engagement, Enjoyment, Motivation, Retention & Productivity
HUMAN ELEMENTS
Fostering:- Engagement
- Positive Relationships
- Emotional Awareness & Intelligence
- Strengths-based approaches
- Effective Stakeholder Management
IDENTITY
Nurturing, developing and maintaining:- Your Purpose/ Your Why
- Your Vision
- Your Values
- Effective Internal & External Communication
PROCESS
Understanding and developing your:- Roles & Responsibilities aligned with Strengths & Enjoyment
- Effective Stress Management approaches
- Efficiency
- Concept of Quality in your Products and/or Services
IMPACT
Fostering and Maintaining:- Peak Performance
- Awareness of Self and Others
- Motivation
- Learning Conversations
SUSTAINABILITY
Fostering and developing:- Continuous & Dynamic Learning across your organisation
- Success Habits
- Innovation & Creative Thinking
- Authentic Sales
- Lessons Learned processes & strategies for Individuals, teams & whole organisations
The Driving Success Model
A Quality Framework & Needs Analysis Tool
In order to create effective sustainable solutions, we need to understand your:
Current State – Where are you now?
Step 2
Desired Future State - Where would you like to be?
Step 3
How will you get there?
Step 4
How will we monitor and evaluate the success?
See more information on our Learning Culture Needs Analysis here
The Driving Success Model
A Competency Framework & Measurement Tool
We have developed our model into a tool that can measure your Individual, Team and Organisational behavioural tendencies and Competencies across all the elements of the model. This means that we can provide you with behavioural competency reports on each area so that you can see your current state for any individuals or departments or even across your entire organisation.
This is a powerful analysis tool, which will provide you with rich and invaluable data, from which we can make some informed decisions about the areas that you need to focus on most to give the best return on the investment of your energy, time and resources. It also allows us to make intelligent and informed decisions about your best in class, most impactful and sustainable solutions.
Both the Needs Analysis and the Competency reports, will give us the data to address your current challenges and design solutions with data, rather than starting the implementation of solutions based solely on peoples’ subjective interpretation of the prevailing issues or future state visions.
Ingredients of the Driving Success Model
The Key Driver of Long-Term Success, our Aim and our Focus…
Building an Agile Resilient Continuous Learning Culture
Why is the development of a Continuous Learning Culture so important?
In very simple terms, to create long term success we need to foster a Continuous Learning Culture. Our Driving Success Model includes factors that need to be implemented to help people and organisations thrive and therefore provides an essential framework for long term success.We now have so much research and evidence from organisations around the world, which illustrate the power and impact of organisations where people pay attention to developing a Learning Culture.
Just like Senge says:
"In the long run, the only source of competitive edge is your organisation's ability to learn faster than its competitors"
Taking inspiration from Senge, Managing Director of Investors in Learning, Lizzy Lowenstein, applies it directly to performance and productivity:
"In the long run, the only source of sustainable productivity and performance is your organisation’s ability to learn at the individual, team and organisational levels."
Harness the Power of Learning in your people, understand how to increase motivation and engagement and you will directly increase productivity.
It will make the key fundamental difference to engagement, productivity and performance.
Focusing on the factors in our Driving Success Model will make all the difference to the ability of people to be the best they can be, to have the sustained energy that motivates and keeps the mind alive and clear, securing the success of your organisation into the long term.
Understanding how to optimise human performance and to be the best version of ourselves into the long term, should be the aim of any forward-thinking organisation. It is an essential imperative element of success, human engagement, productivity, and happiness.
Your People Are Your Greatest Asset
And yet..
Lack of productivity and lack of engagement is a growing international phenomenon in our fast-paced changing world.
By developing an Agile Continuous Learning Cultures we are directly addressing this international issue of lack of engagement and productivity.
Our Building a Courageous and Agile Learning Culture Programme addresses all aspects of the Driving Success model and how these can be applied to your specific context.
For more information, please visit our Building A Courageous and Agile Learning Culture programme.
Learning Cultures create Engagement… Engagement is not just a 'nice to have'!
- Engagement is an absolutely essential aspect of a long-term effective and productive workplace. Engagement and Productivity are completely intertwined.
- Happy, engaged people are more likely to stay healthy, which provides the energy and vitality that is required to drive essential productivity and in turn we are creating a virtuous cycle within our organisations and across all our communities.
- If people are engaged in their work and they are provided with the environment and the supportive culture that allows them to express themselves, be themselves, working with their natural strengths, then we will also get the best results, and the best performance from them. So, it becomes a complete win-win.
- People who feel valued, engaged and in a place where there are no barriers to learning, where there is the necessary psychological safety and trust, will be the best thinkers and decision-makers and be able use their energy effectively, they will have a sharpened focus, which will drive the desired success and impact we all wish to see.
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6 Key Ingredients that drive the development
of Continual Learning Cultures
To drive the development of a Continuous Learning Culture, there are 6 Fundamental Elements to the Driving Success Model, all of which work at the Individual, Team and Organisational level.
We have described the elements of the Model in terms of elements of a system. Our human body is a system that can only stay healthy into the long term under certain circumstances, with the correct nutrition, exercise, and environmental conditions.
Our focus is on creating solutions for the long term which is why we have here used the analogy of long term health.
All the elements of the Driving Success Model are key to the overall effective functioning of self, team and for the whole Organisation
Driving Success Model:
LEADERSHIP
The Water, Oxygen and Sunshine
Leadership is the water, oxygen and sunshine which gives life to everything that is required to Drive Success.
The leadership creates the culture that is necessary to provide the right energy and focus to create the required behaviours.
Leadership also provides the drive to deliver on our goals and dreams.
Driving Success Model:
HUMAN ELEMENTS
The Lifeblood of your Self, Team or Organisation
Blood delivers necessary substances such as nutrients, and oxygen to the cells. It also transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
In the same way: in a healthy culture the people create the right positive behaviours and create the environment that makes everything happen.
With the right ingredients, people will be engaged, productive and effective and will engage with their roles positively and effectively and, like blood, will be able to transport waste and toxins away from where they are not needed.
If the Human Elements are all honoured and nurtured, positive behaviours and the right energy and culture to drive success across the organisation, will prevail; people will be able to do the difficult job of balancing all the ingredients necessary to ensure that the desired reality and impact is achieved, and all outcomes are delivered.
The Human Elements Include:
- Effective & Positive Relationships
- Emotional Awareness & Intelligence
- Discovering and working with Strengths
- Engagement
Driving Success Model:
IDENTITY
Your DNA and Blueprint
Your DNA & Blueprint -- Identity is what makes you you!
We all need an identity as an individual, a team or an organisation.
It is made up of the ingredients that make you unique, and that define you.
It also provides the energy that people need to drive their own success, as well as the energy that attracts others to you
It defines you, your direction and the ingredients that make you uniquely you.
The Identity Element includes:
- Purpose
- Vision
- Values
- Communication
Driving Success Model:
PROCESS
Your Engine
Your engine which has structures, rules and protocols that create the outcomes that are necessary in achieving your overall results and impact.
The Engine needs to be solid and reliable in order to hold, drive and frame all the other more dynamic and changeable variables.
In order to keep them reliable they need review and a good service on a regular basis to make sure they are fit for purpose and still meeting the demands and needs.
The Process Element includes:
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Efficiency
- Quality
- Stress Management
Driving Success Model:
IMPACT
The Outcome and Results
What you see, feel, sense, hear and taste around you.
These elements also include the ingredients we need to foster in order to maintain the impact.
We need to be continually aware of the impact we wish to see, otherwise we will not maintain any impact over time.
The Impact Element includes:
- Awareness/ Attention
- Performance
- Motivation
- Learning Conversations
Driving Success Model:
SUSTAINABILITY
The Soil and the Heartbeat
It is the soil and the heartbeat that keeps things growing, germinating and alive into the long term.
This needs to be regulated in order to ensure we have the healthiest soil possible, as we all know what happens if our soil is bad then everything will wilt and eventually die.
The Sustainability Element includes:
- Dynamic Learning
- Success Habits
- Innovation
- Authentic Sales
The Processes, Habits and Values that create the Agility and essential ongoing Learning and Change
Lessons need to be regularly reviewed and the learning applied in order to ensure that we do not go round in circles repeating the same mistakes or not recognising key successes, which are core to our future.
Explore:
- The power of Lessons Learned for individuals, teams, and your organisation
- The benefits of creating a Lessons Learned culture
- Processes to ensure that Lessons are Learned and mistakes are recognised and not repeated
- Processes to ensure that successes are recognised, Lessons from successes are analysed, intentionally and strategically incorporated into good practise
- A Lessons Learned online Management Platform
The Lessons Learned Suite of Programmes includes:
- Introduction to Lessons Learned
- Becoming the Lessons Learned Practitioner
- Becoming the Lessons Learned Ambassador