Running head: EXTENDING LEARNING WITH THE 6D’S 1 EXTENDING LEARNING WITH THE 6D’S Week 1 Assignment – Extending Learning with the 6D’s Student’s Name Institutional affiliation In the current age of information and innovation, understanding how to optimize employee performance is crucial for assuring the success of businesses in their respective markets and industries. The process of educating and training personnel is vital because it divides organizations that thrive and remain ahead of their competition from those that fail to keep up with market developments, deteriorate, and are eventually forced to close. Learning in organizations is a crucial approach employed by market leaders (EBSCO Information Services, 2020). By being learning organizations, firms such as Apple, Google, and Emerson ensure that their people have the skills and competencies to innovatively advance their companies' visions toward organizational success in their respective markets and industries. Despite the well-known benefits of employee training, some companies, such as Netflix, are hesitant to educate or train their staff on the skills they need to remain relevant to the company. Nevertheless, in today's age of innovation and information, it is essential to ensure that one's staff are highly skilled and competent for a firm to remain competitive and relevant in its market. In learning organizations, there are six actions that must be taken to ensure that people are trained and that the training efforts are successful (Hidayat & Budiatma, 2018). The success of learning companies is measured by the effect of their education and training activities on their overall performance and the quality of their output. Successful Learning is shown by an improvement in the quality of employee performance and an increase in the output quality. In contrast, persistently poor performance could indicate that the learning process was ineffective. In a few exceptional instances, such as Netflix's, a non-learning corporation may continue to be successful despite lacking the capacity for expansion. Despite their achievement, their non-learning environment prevents them from reaching their full potential for success. Instead of training and retraining their staff to match the company's increasing competence needs, Netflix terminates people who are no longer a good fit for the organization. For employee education and training initiatives to result in organizational success, businesses must invest in ensuring that each phase of the learning process is successfully implemented. Considering Emerson's overall success, it is clear that the learning organization owes a substantial portion of its success to its effective learning practices. Six essential phases can be used to summarize the learning methodologies that organizations like Emerson employ. Six Ds denote the six organizational-learning steps. The 6 D's are essential for determining, measuring, examining, implementin.