The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

As the chart shows, in a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. In a training culture, the training and development function is centralized.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Are you on auto-pilot when it comes to development programs, stories and statistics? How does that translate into our informal and formal development efforts? I’m of the opinion that leadership values are constant laws, but how those get manifested and how we learn and grow changes by the minute. A Learning Organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

This emphasis on formal training is a barrier to learning and change. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture, trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 9, 2013

Consider these five tips when putting together a leadership development program. In particular, enlightened leaders are in a position to create a new future for their organization by identifying the potential and developing the talent of those who could replace them. Learning leaders must begin with that mindset.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Sometimes, this shared learning can bond team members closer together. Learning and development executives are in the unique position to help curate these experiences to engender loyalty and engagement around the larger organizational purpose. How does our leadership behavior impact the world around us? Think again.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

There’s a massive shift underway in the world of learning and development. It’s a perfect storm of pressure, in which chief learning officers weigh ROI and manage digital disruption across industries as they pivot from the age of the customer to the age of the employee. 5 Capabilities of an Enlightened CLO.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2021

But what works today won’t necessarily work tomorrow, and those working in the learning and development space should be prepared to continually evolve to meet a range of in-the-moment-of-learning needs. Actions learning leaders can take now. Develop leadership mindsets that enable the hybrid workforce.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2013

More than half of CLOs report higher budgets in 2013 than in 2012, and many expect this year to be better still. Learning leaders plan to increase spending to develop in-house content, e-learning and install learning technologies, partly because of pressure to deliver more training content to the widest possible audience.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

He determined there was a need to provide enterprisewide leadership development to Quest’s 400-plus senior executive leaders that aligned with the company’s vision, goals and strategy. which designs and delivers business simulations and executive development programs. Pre-Program Assessment.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 20, 2018

Developing the next generation of leaders is the top priority for a majority of organizations, according to a recent survey of more than 28,000 business leaders conducted by The Conference Board. So what are the skills that companies are spending all that money to develop? In-person development has been seen as necessary.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2020

Reflecting on this reaction made me want to share what I have learned about creating powerful learning engagements. After more than 25 years in the learning profession, from new-hire orientation programs to senior team development at Fortune 100 companies, I have captured a lot from observing so many learning programs and initiatives.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2012

” Now, consider this question in an organizational context: If a leader walks out of the office each night, each year, and at the end of a brilliant career has compiled a record of heroic successes, yet leaves no long-term impact on others, did leadership occur? As the question implies, legacy is a crucial component of leadership.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

I have worked with executive education organizations to build feedback into experiential learning or action learning projects, which can be particularly valuable.”. Rather, she has always used it specifically for leadership development. She said it’s not the kind of tool to be used on the entire workforce.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2013

Many developments in enterprise learning facilitate efforts to develop virtuous leadership. Kurt Olson, vice president of talent management and leadership development at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said this kind of coaching is especially important for programs targeted at high potentials.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 28, 2017

Leadership Development Has Failed. Shared leadership is a situationally-intelligent process where leadership and followership flow from one to the other. But there are steps learning leaders can take to make changes easier to swallow and act on. Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 20, 2017

Whether it’s a nonprofit, start-up, small business or a large enterprise, no organization can afford to skip on learning and development for its people. In a March Forbes article , leadership development professional Rebecca Zucker offered 10 ways companies can develop people with little to no learning and development budget.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In sum, we need safe, collaborative environments where everyone can contribute, thereby unleashing the leadership potential that already exists at your doorstep. And it comes with bottom-line benefits — namely, increased quality, innovation, proactivity, resiliency and learning.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 18, 2019

Learning methods are shifting at lightning speed, and organizations like Nationwide are discovering new and better ways to shift L&D within organizations. Over the past three years Nationwide also has focused on bolstering its organizational culture with talent development being a key component. Photo by Will Byington.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2011

Day two of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer magazine Symposium continued with more innovative learning strategies in Amelia Island, Fla. Bill Whitmore, CEO of AlliedBarton Security Services began the morning with a keynote on how to drive business performance through leadership branding.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The highest aspirations of the learning profession prescribe organizational development — a direct effort to increase a company’s effectiveness. This means strategically deploying learning to further a company’s mission — the goal employees work to accomplish. It depends on who you ask. Mere Happiness Risks Relevance.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Learning leaders are integral to the succession management process because so much of it depends on developing and preparing high potentials for future responsibilities. Development plays a key role. “Through a variety of strategic development efforts, we can more fully realize the potential of our best talent.”

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Learning and development organizations can adopt business metrics such as profitability, top-line revenue growth and bottom-line improvements instead of simply measuring correlations. For some, an impassioned debate continues to swirl around whether businesses take leadership and development seriously.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2017

Those may be harsh words to dispense, but in business — and especially in learning and development — the menacing word “failure” is part and parcel of innovation. While organizations continue to learn that what worked in the past might not work any longer, the prospect of navigating uncharted waters to produce something new is scary.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2017

The role of learning in supporting rapid organic growth can be seen in several initiatives being taken by Mike Barger, CLO of JetBlue Airways. The e-learning program was augmented by a coaching model to solidify skills. In the U.S., At the same time, we have terrific people in every local area.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

We should use them at companies too, including for leadership development. Many companies are experiencing significant leadership gaps and an insufficient leadership pipeline, primarily due to the increasing pace of change in the global economy. So, why don’t more companies use games for leadership development?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the leadership team at global energy technology company FMC Technologies’ Subsea Technologies Western Region set a target in the fourth quarter of 2010 to double revenue and increase profitability in five to seven years, they focused on three areas: increasing market share, developing new platforms for growth and improving execution.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2016

What’s more, such experiences are developed outside the confines of time and space. Developed around on-demand or self-paced courses, these learning experiences allow students to gain knowledge and skills while giving them more control in managing their learning. Comment below, or email editor@CLOmedia.com.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 22, 2014

For Kevin Bruny, chief learning officer for Chesterfield County, Va., developing the county’s 4,400 employees helps the community’s citizens enjoy a better quality of life. Few cities and counties employ CLOs. According to Kevin Bruny, chief learning officer of Chesterfield County, Va.,

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2019

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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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Graybar’s management team had a critical need for leadership development in 2001. Since 2005, the SCM program has kept pace with advances in technology, the distribution industry and shifting adult learning styles. Not only is the size of the available talent pool smaller, but also workforce expectations are different.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 30, 2019

In 2009, she joined Fierce Conversations as an account executive/marketing lead, and as of November 2018, she was running the leadership development and training company that focuses on helping clients have effective conversations. And she’s only 33. A Sense of Purpose.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 20, 2018

Leadership in the current knowledge era can no longer rely on a single source of expertise; rather, it needs to be a collaborative practice distributed across a range of individuals. Additionally, consider the collective leadership model used by the most successful national men’s rugby team of all time, New Zealand’s All Blacks.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 14, 2016

There is a senior management chasm developing, and there aren’t enough Generation Xers to help fill the gap. Instead, learning leaders should build their knowledge and accelerate their real-world capabilities by putting participants in the executive’s shoes for a given period of time.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2012

SNAPSHOT : When Microsoft needed a more efficient way to deliver education to its global finance function, it tore down the classroom walls and created a flexible, Web-based learning model that enables people in different time zones to come together in an environment that fosters teamwork and yields a high retention rate.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 3, 2013

The CLO is strategically positioned to focus on business objectives, outcomes and costs. Successful chief learning officers understand that business longevity is defined by an ability to innovate and adapt. If the investment can be better spent in another area with more impact, then learning should gladly offer up the budget.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 22, 2019

Peggy and Jim were used to this question as they would recount the successful partnership that produced a series of award-winning talent development programs. Both would agree the partnership had the kind of power lacking in most internal/external relationships in the talent development field today.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 24, 2019

Elliott Masie is CEO of The Masie Center, an international think tank focused on learning and workplace productivity, and chairman and CLO of The Masie Center’s Learning Consortium. Students have come to expect and accept homework as an element of the learning process. Entice your learners to extend their learning.

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