Third Level Development The organization should provide continued development for its members beyond their specific economic and service activities. Q. How much so? A. How much can it afford? Ideally the organization’s aims and goals will be clear to all its members. Accurate accounting of progress towards these aims and goals will clearly be communicated to the members – including the organization’s profitability. From this picture the members and leaders will choose their education and development programs at all three levels. Some organizations lure their members to “higher performance” (in very narrowly defined parameters) by holding out cash incentives. These organizations attract and encourage money-motivated, self- interested people. What type of people would an organization with a vigorous training and development program attract? (Group leaders or other members might worry that an emphasis on learning might attract people with an impractical, academic bent. The practice of sharing the organization’s aims and progress while seeking members’ input on decisions about training and education will keep this on a practical level.) A group’s learning should not end with what can be learned from others. Each organization should press on beyond this to what can be, but has not yet been, learned from the world (research). And this in any of the three levels of learning and development - Training, Education and Development.
3. Building up Good Places
As with the education activities, a healthy organization living and working in the age
of the industrial and computer revolutions can afford to spend time, effort and resources on this non-economic activity.
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