Global Organizational Learning Initiative: Promoting Knowledge Exchange for Better Futures

1. Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

2. Team Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team Sydney, Lotee, Fred, Fernando, Ernest, Rafael, María, Roberta

3. Team Composition • American Red Cross • Deloitte • German Red Cross • International Federation of Red Cross • Red Crescent (IFRC) • Institute of Development Studies • Italian Red Cross • Mexican Red Cross (Technical Team Lead) • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Norwegian Red Cross • RedThread Research • Society for Organisational Learning Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

4. Mission of the movement: • To relieve and prevent the suffering of the people and communities • How can Organizational Learning initiative can contribute to achieve our mission? • The purpose of the organizational learning challenge is: • To contribute to the analysis of how national societies learn organizationally • To engage national societies in the challenge • To define to lines of action Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

5. Background: • In Nairobi a survey related to Organizational Learning was applied among the participants in the Alliance Meeting, in order to introduce the topic of organizational learning. • The survey contains the categories such As: “How people learn in their SN”; “How People related with other people (regarding learning)”; “How their NS gather and process the information and share among their members”. • In general, the results shown that are opportunities to learn from the way that people, decision makers and the Organization (in general) need to improve to learn together in such topics. • An invitation was sent to national societies to join the challenge • Documents related to strategies of knowledge and learning, management expertise and theoretical livelihoods on organizational learning; where exchanged in order to obtain feedback from experts in the field and from the members of the Alliance. Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

6. Organizational learning pursues • To change the way we perceive the actual organization in order to gather and process necessary information; in order be competitive and innovative • To generate knowledge a culture that allows us to improve the way we manage the knowledge. • To realize that knowledge are not Data and Information • In order to know thing like… • Do we know that we must to know? • We do things that make sense to us? • Can we rely in the links used to Exchange learning? • If other cultural factors, strategic, political, etc. has influence on the quality of the links to gather learning. • The Federation should investigate If is being able to understand each part of the Organization and build the links among the parties that should work together. Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

7. Organizational Learning: Defined • - It is a collective process that requires conditions for it to develop. • Organizational learning is a process of acquisition and transfer of knowledge that considers three instances Formation, Collaboration, and Experience. • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40meQNZl3KU Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

8. Organizational Learning: Discussion • What does organizational learning mean to you? Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

10. Diagnostic Tool • Organisational Learning Technical Team seeks to assess the current state of organizational learning through a survey administered by National Societies • The Technical Team will develop a toolkit for National Societies to use and adapt in surveying their volunteers. Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

11. Diagnostic Tool: Projected Outputs and Next Steps • Technical Team experts will support in: • Compiling data from National Societies on the current state of learning. • Analyzing the data to create a baseline that illustrates state of organizational learning globally. • Identifying the areas of strength and potential opportunities for development globally. • Identifying best practices which can be adopted and adapted globally. Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

12. Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

14. Diagnostic Tool: Discussion on Content What feedback do you have on your section? What questions are missing in your section? Brainstorm. What 2 questions are your top priority? Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

15. Group Sharing Main takeaway’s from each group Top questions Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

16. Diagnostic Tool: Feedback on Implementation 1. Do you see this diagnostic as valuable? 2. Would you be willing implement? How? Volunteer Alliance: Organizational Learning Technical Team

17. ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING CHALLENGE – TIMELINE / NEXT STEPS Communication Strategy Survey instruments distributed Final Draft Resolution LEARNING SUMMIT JUNE - JULY ‘18 OCT ‘18 – MARCH ‘19 NOV ‘19 MARCH ‘18 MAY ‘19 SEPT ‘18 APRIL ‘18 Reflections on OL Self-Assessment tool for NS’s and branches OL training Resolution / Pledge for OL Survey Data Captured and compiledSurvey Data Analysed Survey Report validation and distribution Concept Note & Addendums Conceptual Framework for NS implementation Diagnostic Survey Tool Research Methodology STATUTORY MEETINGS

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