In reply to Jessica Laasonen.

Training individuals as a group is not the idea here. I was at first surprised when Peter Senge made the statement about individual learning, but he explained the years of research behind it. It doesn't matter what the organization does, each person is unique. Focusing on individual skills is a mug's game. Let each individual decide what is best for her or him.

The organization should be concerned with how people work together and find ways to help them cooperate and collaborate. There is no need to manage individual learning. We don’t manage what or how our employees eat and we don’t need to manage their knowledge or learning. We can make it easier for them to learn and share knowledge though, just like putting in a cafeteria or a water fountain. Workers need support and tools to develop these personal processes but the organization should stay out of the business of individual learning and instead focus on collaboration. Organizations should focus on enabling practitioners to produce results by supporting learning through social networks. The rest is just window dressing.