DexTeam Learning

Wired to Connect

Humans have a pervasive drive to form positive, meaningful, and enduring relationships.  Our ancient ancestors evolved in such a way that the formation of relationships advanced beyond the basic need to survive to incorporate a desire to learn from each other and cooperate.  According to Dr. Matthew Lieberman, a professor of biobehavioral sciences, the pleasure we gain from bringing happiness to others is greater than the pleasure gained from personal outcomes (2013).  Organizations that give attention to how groups of individuals and teams interact in the workplace can increase the effective functioning of the entire enterprise.

Getting More Out of Performance

Traditionally, organizations identify the skills needed to perform a task, establish a learning scope and sequence, and design activities to develop the skills.  This process is logical and makes a contribution to learning, but often not available in time or flexible enough to keep up with the pace of change.  Dexterity Learning urges companies to shift their perspective and approach to learning by getting out of learning to perform and into performing to learn.  Knowledge alone will not lead to action or a change in behavior, it is simply the first step in the learning process.  Learning is a dynamic process that involves knowledge, motivation, intent, and action (Frey et. al, 2006).  Organizations that understand the relationship between learning and performance have the advantage over those that do not because they know how tasks can be carried out and how to manage the whole process, including decision-making, planning, acting, and evaluating.  Building a learning system that targets the learning needs of teams, will enable them to work and solve problems more efficiently and effectively.

Implement DexTeam Learning 

The core entity in an organization learning system is the group or team.  Many of the problems faced by organizations today are too complex and complicated for any one person to understand, much less solve.  The creativity, perspectives, and talents of groups and teams of people are what is needed to find solutions to today's problems.  Here are some of the ways DexTeam Learning partners with your organization to enable team learning and growth:

• Determine the criteria to be considered when selecting group members and defining roles in order to build organizational learning and interconnectedness.

• Identify the attributes of high-performing teams to initiate and sustain success. 

• Understand the stages of team development in order to pinpoint problems and suggest team-building interventions.

• Utilize an agile project management framework to solve a problem or execute a task.

• Document, transfer, and share team learning across the organization.