The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The only thing holding companies back from learning at the speed of change is their organizational culture which, for many, is a barrier to learning. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Leaders are communicating the importance of learning (acquiring new knowledge, skills, and capabilities) and holding managers accountable for learning and applying that learning to making a difference for the organization. You never arrive; there is always more to do on the journey.

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Torrance Learning

APRIL 1, 2016

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. The CLO, or HR, or a training department controls the resources for learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

Recently, I conducted a workshop for the leadership team of a company that wants to increase the impact of its training programs. I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective. They wanted to know specifically what they could do to facilitate learning.

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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. The CLO, or HR, or a training department controls the resources for learning.

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Learning Pool

JANUARY 11, 2022

The past year has been huge for learning teams as they continue to accelerate and mature their adoption of digitally-enabled learning. Once again, there is a backdrop of uncertainty as we look at the learning trends for the year ahead. This is about developing the business acumen of your learning team to drive value.

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Acorn Labs

JULY 10, 2023

Senior leaders define it, team leaders cultivate it, and middle managers reinforce it, so at no point can you afford a bad apple. Leadership training helps leaders, new and tenured alike, learn about the values, vision, and mission of the organisation. It's not just about instilling the right behaviours, but mindsets.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Coaching – a relationship in which a trained coach helps an employee develop the knowledge and skills to be a more effective manager by addressing real situations that manager faces in workplace. Mentoring – a relationship in which senior leaders impart their knowledge and wisdom on employees who are learning to be leaders.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 20, 2017

“In other words, your people need to feel like they’re learning and growing — or they will leave,” Zucker wrote. Providing learning and development can help drive retention, too. She also wrote that learning leaders may want to add to their toolbox: Encourage employees to seek out non-profit board positions.

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Acorn Labs

JULY 10, 2023

Senior leaders define it, team leaders cultivate it, and middle managers reinforce it, so at no point can you afford a bad apple. Leadership training helps leaders, new and tenured alike, learn about the values, vision, and mission of the organisation. It's not just about instilling the right behaviours, but mindsets.

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Infopro Learning

MAY 6, 2024

For example, L&D leaders must foster a sense of purpose and growth within their teams. Motivating and empowering their trainers and designers creates engaging learning experiences that benefit the entire organization. True leaders live by the organization’s values, empowering their teams to make meaningful contributions.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2017

The leadership model is aligned to Mindtree’s overall approach to talent management, including hiring, onboarding, assessment, performance and retention. Every leader can select an individual experience like coaching, mentoring or shadowing with our top management team in an investor or analyst meet,” Santhanam said. “Or

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Acorn Labs

AUGUST 18, 2022

L&D leaders are starting to see how leveraging shared learning goals can reflect the team dynamic in the workplace. With this in mind, cohort learning in the workplace is a scalable way to deliver on: Team effectiveness. What are the benefits of cohort learning for future leaders? Process improvement.

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Docebo

JULY 8, 2021

We know now that social learning takes place through interaction between peers, naturally in the workplace, but it’s also encouraged by social learning tools, such as Learning Management Systems (LMS). We must also consider how social learning can impact talent retention.

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Unboxed

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Some employers may be tempted to push employee training to the side of their business-centric priorities, but you may want to think again… At Unboxed Training & Technology, our goal is to provide you with any recent corporate training trends with actionable ways to apply these new industry insights to your company or team.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

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. Learning needs to happen continuously to ensure employees are equipped to succeed in an ever-evolving world.

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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. Succession management is one of the most important functions in business today. Eight Elements of Succession Management 1.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

These characteristics, according to the research, can get managers in trouble by impeding their ability to build and sustain teams, engage people, communicate effectively and manage performance. Hogan Assessments CEO Scott Gregory calls the set of 11 personality characteristics “dark side derailers.” Know Your Weaknesses.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2013

With this integrated foundation, all leaders, whether a technical lead, a manager or a vice president, have a clear development roadmap that engenders loyalty and supports individual and organizational success. • Assignment of action-oriented developmental activities. • Persuasive mentoring and coaching relationships.

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CrossKnowledge

MARCH 9, 2020

L&D is een strategische functie gericht op de integratie van de ontwikkeling van mensen als individuen met hun prestaties als teams en uiteindelijk als gehele organisatie. Learning Technology. L&D sourcing & vendor management. De activiteiten richten zich tot de hele waarde-keten van de organisatie.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

If we’re using the same ideas, thoughts and guides to mentor or teach others year after year, does it retain value? 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. Do we have our stakeholders adopt an action learning or action research approach?

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Effective leadership occurs when the leader strengthens others’ capacity to learn, to reflect and to extract meaning from their learning. It’s not up to the CEO or top management alone to create a legacy; everyone has this opportunity based on his or her own experiences and insights.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2017

Many CLOs and other learning executives are walking with a bit more spring in their steps these days, and perhaps smiling a bit more often. They are coming out of budget meetings feeling less like “executioners” ready to cut payroll and more like “executors,” ready to execute learning and knowledge management strategies in support of growth.

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Limestone Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

While working with video has traditionally been complex and time-consuming, recent technology advances have dramatically simplified the process of capturing, managing, and sharing it. About the benefits of peer-to-peer video-based learning. Transform Your Managers! And managers make it happen. Revolution is where it’s at!

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Training Orchestra

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Unlike private enterprises that often utilize sophisticated tools, public entities often rely extensively on spreadsheets to schedule and manage training programs for their employees across all services. How is Training Normally Managed Within a Local Government?

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Docebo

MAY 8, 2018

We know now that social learning takes place through interaction between peers, naturally in the workplace, but it’s also encouraged by social learning tools, such as Learning Management Systems (LMS). We must also consider how social learning can impact talent retention.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

To provide a visual classroom description, picture participants sitting at small group tables; they serve as a company’s executive team. The competing teams start with the same financial and human capital, and then collaborate internally while they compete externally to determine where to best allocate their resources.

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Thinkdom

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This blog shares insights, providing you with a guide to boost employee performance with six simple corporate learning solutions. Whether you're in HR, a corporate trainer, or a business leader, these strategies are here to help enhance team skills and spark innovation. Benefits Role Clarity: No more guesswork.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 22, 2014

He returned to Chesterfield County in 2000 as assistant director of human resource management. Creating Award-Winning Programs for Local Government The Center for Organizational Excellence provides learning and development services to the county’s 4,400 employees. Level 2 measures the effect of courses on action learning.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Let’s face it: In the complex and unpredictable conditions facing managers in this era, we cannot rely on a single source of expertise. Must we not have to shift from an exclusive focus on individuals — as in leader development — to a focus on collective or team leadership development? They seek out and learn from others’ views.

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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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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

The 20 percent: learning through others. Learning is social. People learn with and through others. Conversations are the stem cells of learning. Effective managers encourage their team members to buddy up on projects, to shadow others and to participate in professional social networks. What worked at Google.

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Limestone Learning

AUGUST 31, 2018

New learning helps too, and September is full of free webinars that can add to your knowledge stores! The key to learning success in these instances, though, is getting this high-quality material to trainees as quickly as possible. Evaluating their next learning platform and/or interested in the latest eLearning trends and strategies.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 30, 2019

While Fierce, a small, growing company, doesn’t have a formal leadership development program, Engle said company leaders and mentors taught her how the business works and gave her a sense of connection to the company. Engle said L&D teams must develop more modern, relevant programs, not just for millennials, but for all employees. “I

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Scott Miller, CEO of Action Learning Associates, an executive development firm, said peer learning reflection should feature both the good and the bad. Tuck’s Finkelstein is also a fan of peer learning. He said coaching is an expanded form of peer learning. ” T.J. based Agilent Technologies Inc.,

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