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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

There are five possible causes for failed alignment and results: Ineffective reporting structures for learning functions: According to the CIPD report, alignment is lower in organizations where learning and development is part of generalist HR activities. Leaders also can be valuable mentors and coaches.

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There’s an Alternative to Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Action learning with a trained coach is a cost-effective approach that enables leaders to develop capabilities while working to solve urgent organizational or social problems. Essentially, leaders are learning while working, making it easy to see how learned skills apply on the job. But there’s an alternative.

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There’s an Alternative to Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Action learning with a trained coach is a cost-effective approach that enables leaders to develop capabilities while working to solve urgent organizational or social problems. Essentially, leaders are learning while working, making it easy to see how learned skills apply on the job. But there’s an alternative.

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Creating learning experiences that don’t suck

CLO Magazine

Often these experiential tools are used as a practice field for specific subjects such as collaborating effectively, creating an environment of innovation, establishing trust, and using persuasion and influence. Experiential methodologies also are excellent at catching leadership styles and behaviors in action.

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Cohort-based programs can develop leaders at all levels

CLO Magazine

As executive coaches, we’ve found that cohort-based executive development programs that integrate four specific learning components — group learning, executive and peer coaching, experiential/action learning activities and a strong emphasis on personal development and self-awareness — offer a powerful way to rapidly develop leaders at any level.

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The Value of a Virtual Academy

CLO Magazine

Prior to 2008, when it came to employee development, Microsoft held a subsection of course offerings in person twice a year in a centralized location in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and one in Asia-Pacific called Learning Weeks. Her goal is to help develop trusted advisers who can do much more than report financial results.

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Learning Your Way Out

CLO Magazine

Perhaps most prominent in the domain of practice-oriented leadership development is action learning, which consists of group projects, team members working and reflecting on problems occurring in their projects and workplaces, and other interpersonal experiences, such as coaching and mentorships, which encourage learning dialogues.