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Organizational learning requires creating a culture that embraces failure as an opportunity to learn, welcomes different perspectives, and breaks up echo chambers. Effective learning involves exploring values and decision-making processes to understand why systems and desired outcomes exist, not just making adjustments or identifying causal relationships. Creating a learning culture involves skills like dialogue, questioning assumptions, and different facilitation methods.

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Tool - Single Double Triple Loop Learning

Organizational learning requires creating a culture that embraces failure as an opportunity to learn, welcomes different perspectives, and breaks up echo chambers. Effective learning involves exploring values and decision-making processes to understand why systems and desired outcomes exist, not just making adjustments or identifying causal relationships. Creating a learning culture involves skills like dialogue, questioning assumptions, and different facilitation methods.

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TOOL | Single,

Double and Triple Cultural Elements and Considerations


Organizational learning is critical to making
change in the work we do, whether that change
Loop Learning is small, moderate, or transformational. The
people in the organization create culture
together. Some of the conditions required for
Based on the thought leadership of Chris effective learning include:
Argyris and Donald Schön as well as others
CONSIDERATIONS
along the way, here is an overview:
Learning requires space and freedom. Do not
limit your learning potential by containing it
Single Loop Learning is about making within organizational dogma and the various
adjustments to correct a mistake or a biases that exist throughout the group.
problem. It is focused on doing the things We all learn differently. Some of see
right. Causality might be observed but confusion where others see clarity. Welcome
both rather than get frustrated with one
typically is not addressed. another.
Break up your learning groups so that people
Double Loop Learning is identifying and do not sit together in camps or stovepipes.
understanding causality and then taking Sometimes the best learning comes from
outside our normal associations.
action to fix the problem. It is about doing
If you are trying to learn how to correct or
the right things. turn around a problem, embrace your
failures as a learning opportunity. Blaming
Triple Loop Learning goes even deeper to one another won’t foster trust, much less
explore our values and the reasons why we successful engagement.
even have our systems, processes and Don’t overload one another with too much
information. Get focused on what data is
desired results in the first place. It is about required to help you
trying to ascertain an understanding of A learning culture includes growing people’s
how we make decisions that frame our abilities to dialogue, use wicked questions,
work. engage in Appreciative Inquiry, deploy some
Upside Down Thinking, and engage in a
variety of facilitation methods.

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Single, Double and Triple Loop Learning is related to Brenda Zimmerman’s explanation of problems or
challenges as being Simple, Complicated, or Complex. As well, this learning approach is connected to the
various types of change: Incremental, Reform, and Transformation.

Single Loop Double Loop Triple Loop


Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right things? How do we decide what’s right?

Organizational and Learning Framework


Learning together benefits from a framework that helps ensure clarity about what we are trying to
learning about. In an organization, there is Context, Frames, Actions and Outcomes. The diagram below
provides an overview of the connections and differences between the terms. Single Loop Learning
tends to focus on actions. Double Loop Learning focuses on the frame within our actions take place,
and Triple Loop Learning gets to the core of things: our purpose, the values that guide us, and so on.

Learning awakens us to possibility and acting on possibilities compels us to learn. 2

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