Erik Bursch was good at his job and his team was delivering, but he was ready to learn something new. He was running a cloud platform within the Technology division of Gannett and he believed that if he could put himself in a new environment, the organization could learn and grow along with him.
Your Organization Needs a Learning Ecosystem
It will help you keep great talent from walking away.
July 22, 2019
Summary.
Organizations grow when their employees are learning. If you want a high growth organization, you need to create a learning ecosystem to support high growth individuals — to expose them to new and challenging opportunities before their roles become stale.
Companies need to see that a high growth employee who loves to learn is a very valuable asset. Redeploying them on a new learning curve within the organization keeps their expertise in-house and allows them to share and build on it—a potentially exponential gain. Job swapping is one strategy to put employees on new learning curves; others include ongoing training and educational opportunities, job sharing, mentoring and outreach programs.
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