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What are the best practices for using learning cycles to improve team performance?

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Learning cycles are a powerful way to enhance team performance by creating a culture of continuous improvement, feedback, and adaptation. They help teams to identify their goals, measure their progress, reflect on their results, and implement changes based on their learning. In this article, we will explore some of the best practices for using learning cycles to improve team performance, and how to overcome some of the common challenges.

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1 Define clear and specific goals

The first step in any learning cycle is to define what you want to achieve as a team, and how you will measure your success. Goals should be SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. They should also be aligned with the team's vision, mission, and values. By having clear and specific goals, you can focus your efforts, track your performance, and celebrate your achievements.

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Anita Zbieg, PhD

CEO @ Network Perspective | Team Productivity Researcher | Developer Experience Ally | Collaboration & Workspace Analyst
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Setting contracts at the team and company levels, like those exemplified by Dropbox and GitLab, creates a common understanding and framework for collaboration. These can include general rules like defaulting to asynchronous communication, or setting core collaboration hours, or dedicating a minimum of 2 hours daily for deep work. Specific norms like 'no agenda, no attendance' or 'no Slack after work hours' can also be established. Analysing big data on work habits reveals that team or company-level contracts are more effective than individual changes. For instance, blocking 2 hours for deep work in your calendar works better when it's a team-wide rule rather than an individual effort, making it easier to avoid interruptions.

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Jay B.

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The best practices for using learning cycles to enhance team performance involve regular reflection, adaptation, and action. Begin by setting clear goals and objectives for each learning cycle. Encourage open communication and feedback throughout the process to identify areas for improvement. Analyse successes and failures, extract lessons learned, and adjust strategies accordingly. Ensure that team members have opportunities to apply new knowledge and skills in their work. Finally, foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement to sustain long-term success.

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Dr. Marcello de Souza

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incorporate elements of emotional and social development. This involves not only developing technical skills, but also strengthening interpersonal skills, such as effective communication, empathy and collaboration. This way, teams build stronger relationships, increase cohesion and trust, and improve collaboration and problem solving. This can be achieved through practical activities such as team-building exercises, constructive feedback sessions and emotional intelligence training. Consider diversity and inclusion as an integral part of learning cycles! Promote awareness of issues of diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as implement practices and policies that guarantee equal opportunities and mutual respect within the team.

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2 Collect and share data

The second step in any learning cycle is to collect and share data that reflects your team's performance and progress towards your goals. Data can be quantitative, such as metrics, indicators, or scores, or qualitative, such as feedback, observations, or testimonials. Data should be collected regularly, consistently, and objectively, and should be shared transparently and respectfully with the team. By collecting and sharing data, you can monitor your results, identify gaps, and spot opportunities.

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Vartika Kashyap

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Reflection is the key to success in learning for any industry. For effective reflection, you need data to help you analyze. Track the learning activities thoroughly and collect data from various sources such as performance metrics, exams, surveys, feedback, and results of the learning efforts. By comparing it with the past data, you can analyze the impact of the learning cycles. Based on the results of the analysis, you can identify the gaps in learning initiatives and make improvements to achieve goals.

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Anita Zbieg, PhD

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The key is to have common frameworks and measure their effectiveness. Assess if your collaboration values are truly practiced, such as adequate deep work time, manageable meeting loads, and minimal context switching. This can be effortlessly done using data from collaboration and communication tools like calendars, chats, and emails. Ensure strong ethics and individual privacy protection, such as through data hashing, and conduct analytics solely at the team level.

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Aymen Hannani

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To add. It is advised to learn how to simplify your ideas and data structures improvement to small prototype samples and find quick ways to convince non data collaborators in your company about the importance of a good data infrastructure and habit. Now with ML and AI companies that didn't invest in data structures will have to overpay to catch the gap so they can transition smoothly to the AI step. An AI without good base data is not efficient and will lead to more time wasting than reducing it.

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3 Analyze and reflect

The third step in any learning cycle is to analyze and reflect on the data you have collected and shared, and to draw insights and conclusions from it. Analysis and reflection should be done collaboratively, involving all team members and stakeholders, and using critical thinking and creativity. You should ask questions such as: What worked well? What didn't work well? Why? What can we learn from this? What can we do better? By analyzing and reflecting, you can understand your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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Anita Zbieg, PhD

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Data-informed insights are most effective when they're simple and actionable, allowing every team member to easily grasp and act on the feedback. Plus, changes in data provide a perfect opportunity to celebrate success!

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Shannon Doherty

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Through analyzing and reflecting, I find including regular reviews, data collection, identifying patterns, open communication, constructive feedback, action planning, can lead to improvement and celebrating success.

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Jay B.

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Analyzing and reflecting on data collaboratively is crucial in any learning cycle. Engage all team members, ask critical questions, and extract insights. Understanding strengths and weaknesses enables continuous improvement for long-term success.

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4 Plan and implement changes

The fourth and final step in any learning cycle is to plan and implement changes based on your analysis and reflection, and to test their impact on your performance and progress. Changes should be SMART, and should address the root causes of the problems or gaps you have identified. They should also be communicated clearly and effectively with the team, and supported by the necessary resources and tools. By planning and implementing changes, you can improve your practices, processes, and outcomes.

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Anita Zbieg, PhD

CEO @ Network Perspective | Team Productivity Researcher | Developer Experience Ally | Collaboration & Workspace Analyst
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Based on my experience, the best way to implement changes is through micro-actions. Just spend 5 minutes weekly on a small change for long-term results. Micro-automations in systems you're already using work great for this!

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Fayne Frey, MD

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In my experience, the culmination of a learning cycle involves strategically planning and executing changes. These changes must adhere to the SMART framework and directly address the root causes identified during analysis and reflection. Effective communication within the team, along with the allocation of necessary resources and tools, is critical to successful implementation. Through this process, improvements can be made in team practices, processes, and overall outcomes.

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Jay B.

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Planning and implementing changes is the crucial final step in any learning cycle. Ensure changes are SMART, addressing identified issues. Clear communication and resource support are key for successful implementation, leading to improved practices and outcomes.

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5 Overcome common challenges

Using learning cycles to improve team performance is not always easy or straightforward. There are some common challenges that you may face, such as: resistance to change, lack of trust, poor communication, insufficient time, or conflicting priorities. To overcome these challenges, you need to foster a positive and supportive team culture, where learning cycles are seen as an opportunity to grow, improve, and innovate, rather than as a threat, criticism, or burden. You also need to involve and empower your team members, and to celebrate and reward your successes.

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Anita Zbieg, PhD

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My tip? Utilize data to offer ongoing feedback, encourage discussions, ignite curiosity, and drive change, rather than using it for comparisons or evaluations

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6 Use tools and frameworks

To help you use learning cycles effectively and efficiently, you can use tools and frameworks that guide you through the steps and provide you with templates, checklists, or methods. Some examples of tools and frameworks are: the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, the Kolb's experiential learning cycle, the Kirkpatrick's evaluation model, or the Agile Scrum methodology. By using tools and frameworks, you can simplify and standardize your learning cycles, and ensure that they are consistent, comprehensive, and coherent.

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Jay B.

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Leveraging tools and frameworks enhances the effectiveness of learning cycles by providing guidance and structure. Examples include the PDCA cycle, Kolb's experiential learning cycle, Kirkpatrick's evaluation model, and Agile Scrum methodology. Simplify and standardize your approach, ensuring consistency and coherence throughout the process.

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This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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1 Define clear and specific goals

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5 Overcome common challenges

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