[JasonSage]

Not to discredit your experience, but I'm a native English speaker and I've never had the perception that it's unsophisticated. I think they can have a very slightly different connotation from one another, but in a lot of usage I think they're interchangeable.

[ibejoeb]

It's corporate-speak. There are all sorts of these things.

Lessons/learnings

Requests/asks

Solutions/solves

Agreement/alignments

It definitely sounds weird if you don't spend a lot of time in that world. It's like they replace the actual noun forms with an oddly cased verb form, i.e., nominalization.

Oh, one of my most hated:

Thoughts/ideations

Jeez...

[esafak]

"Solves" is a thing now? We need to brainstorm a solve for the problem? Eww. Not in my company you don't.

[op00to]

I’ve never seen “learnings” used in my corporate life.

[antod]

Really? I'm always adding value by cascading and socialising learnings to my team. The rest of my value is thinking up innovative new nouns to verb.

[op00to]

The ask here is for you to align with the rest of us on learnings.

[dgunay]

"Aligned" is probably one of my least favorite pieces of corporate lingo to become popular. Makes me imagine a D&D alignment chart and all the black and white thinking that comes with that.

[throwaway11460]

And lessons is academy/state school-speak. Can't stand the word. Take your lessons home Ms Teacher, this is a place of business.

Edit: funny how this is down voted but the corporate speak comment not :) we use the word learnings at home. It means what you have learned yourself, as opposed to getting a lesson about it.

[cmrdporcupine]

You're downvoted because this was legitimately not a noun until the last 10-15 years, and it came from corporate/bizdev lingo not regular speech.

Lessons has been used since the 13th century.

It's amazing to think that the regular accepted noun sounds snooty to you.

The least snooty would be "knowledge", which has Anglo-Saxon Germanic roots, and is much older going back to the 12th century.

[empthought]

They definitely had the word well before the last 10-15 years.

It might have been spelled "learninges" or "lernynges".

[zeroCalories]

This is why people have adopted corp speak. They're traumatized by words and need to replace them to help with their ptsd. In 10 years "learnings" will be replaced by something like "considerations" or "updates" when zoomer managers get to set the rules.

[antonchekhov]

I've heard "findings" (ab)used as a synonym for this as well.

[AlchemistCamp]

I’m a native English speaker too, and my immediate reaction when hearing another native speaker say “learnings” is to think they’re an idiot. I know they might be a non-idiot who just happens to talk that way so I try herd not to judge.

Still, the bottom line is that making nouns of verbs for words for which more commonly used nouns already exist makes a poor impression on many speakers.

[j4yav]

I'm a native English speaker and it sounds less sophisticated to me. Something a middle management drone somewhere would say.