Healthy competition in the workplace can increase productivity and encourage innovative thinking. However, a critical aspect of sustaining an optimal work environment is to focus on creating collaborative learning opportunities that employees actually seek out and enjoy.
The need to build a culture of learning can be overlooked or relegated to annual training that is disconnected and doesn’t inspire. Studies show that a majority of employees are underwhelmed by the learning opportunities provided by their companies. In fact, only 40% of employees in the United States use positive terms to describe their company’s learning culture, over a third of employees call their company’s offerings “enthusiastic but off the mark,” and 23% rate the offering as something that “ticks the box” but isn’t impactful.
