CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2018

There’s no playbook for becoming a CLO, and if there’s one simple fact that shines through from the hundreds of formal interviews and countless more conversations I’ve had with learning leaders, that’s it. There was a time when the majority of learning leaders grew up through traditional learning and development roles. That’s changing.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

What should be a manager’s role in employee learning? Learning isn’t in addition to a manager’s job; it IS a manager’s job. Employees need agility when it comes to information. Managers have control of their own learning, not corporate trainers, HR, or a CLO. The answer is that managers have an essential role.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2022

Six years ago, we first identified the rise of a new category of jobs which we called “hybrid jobs.” Instead, as we describe in our report, Blurring Lines, hybrid is a set of jobs that “combine programming skills and ‘offline skills’ such as analysis, design, or marketing.” Core skills versus amplifiers.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I attended the CLO Symposium with my ITA colleagues Jay Cross and Jane Hart. We got questions about how the role of the learning unit changes, about myths and new tools, and about measurement. You can see Jay’s writeup here.) Jay, Jane, and I ran a unpanel where we took questions from the audience and took turns answering it.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 11, 2018

Agility is the emerging trend for companies in thinking about how they structure teams to accomplish work. Agile methodology began with software development, but, with its focus on adapting to change rather than following a process, it has become relevant in other areas as well. In other words, they are not agile. True or false.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As a result, high-performing organizations that successfully provide what people need to perform in both their current and future roles realize better business outcomes than do lower-performing organizations. It creates value through learning in the flow of work, agile development, environmental enablement, and access to information.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

These programs, meticulously designed to cater to varying levels of leadership proficiency, delve into a spectrum of essential soft skills, team dynamics and agile leadership strategies. This integration ushered in a new era of learning agility, furnishing our employees with swift access to bite-sized, on-demand learning modules.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Upskilling also encourages employees’ creativity and allows them to be more innovative within their roles. Coupled with a strong culture for continuous learning, regular development creates a very fluid and agile talent pipeline. This might be the most important reason for upskilling and gives organizations the most edge.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

Organizations aim to stay agile while upskilling and reskilling the critical talent needed to take advantage of change. This puts employees at a disadvantage in building an agile, adaptive culture. Deep-rooted cultural differences play a significant role in shaping attitudes toward many of the programs offered by employers.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

According to the World Economic Forum, by 2025, workplace automation will disrupt a total of 85 million jobs globally in at least 15 industries. AI-driven efficiency: More than just speed AI’s role in today’s workplace goes beyond just automating repetitive tasks. Instead, they are collaborating with it.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In WEF’s “2020 Future of Jobs Report, ” it is suggested that 50 percent of all employees will require reskilling by 2025 and that a billion people will need to be reskilled by 2030. This is due to the differing levels of cognitive and agile learning (learning to learn) capabilities. It’s how we think and process information.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Gartner reported in 2018 that 70 percent of employees have not mastered the skills they need to do their jobs. By moving beyond the status quo and adopting new capabilities, CLOs in all industries can enable true employee readiness. 5 Capabilities of an Enlightened CLO. Embracing Learning in the Flow of Work.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2021

It contradicts piles of research from the likes of Deloitte, Fosway Group and The World Economic Forum, which proclaimed a “reskilling emergency,” based on the finding that 42 percent of existing core job skills are expected to change by 2022. New roles are always being created. Job requirements are under constant review.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic transformed many CLOs into corporate sherpas, guiding employees as they moved to remote work and providing them with newly virtual content to ensure they had the skills and support to remain productive and engaged. From fashion designer to CLO. Tedrick didn’t plan to become the CLO of a $128 billion Fortune 100 company.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

These programs tend to focus solely on teaching managerial skills and competencies, but neglect to address the three critical mindsets required for success in a new leadership role. However, when promoted into a leadership role, the mindset needs to shift from self to team. They get the job done right and on time. Mindset No.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

These findings suggest some significant disconnects but also several questions: Do managers understand their role and how important these activities are? Fortunately, learning and development can provide opportunities that help managers understand, accept and buy into their role in the employee retention process.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As a society, we see the need for reskilling as technological advances and automation make existing job roles obsolete and create new job roles that didn’t previously exist (e.g., The “professional job clusters” identified as areas for the most change over the next 10 years are not exclusively technological.

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Learning Pool

AUGUST 11, 2021

Workforces across the globe are struggling to do their jobs, and the boundaries between home and work are blurred. The evidence is there – women, particularly those of ethnic minority, are still severely mistreated in the workplace and gender stereotypes remain to play a huge role in this divide. Life of a CLO: A Fireside Chat.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2024

During my 15 years in the field of learning and development solutions, I have observed a concerning trend: Despite the crucial role of ROI in showcasing the impact of learning initiatives, it often remains underutilized or entirely overlooked. Fostering an ROI learning culture appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

At the core of the OIT’s learning program are 30 role-specific competency models that provide a “streamlined, data-driven approach” to professional development. Employees are aligned to the profile that best represents their role, and that alignment is reviewed annually. Competency is part of the culture. Cue the green screen.

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Degreed

JUNE 22, 2021

Prudential began with survey data that showed that 30% of responding employees didn’t believe they have the skills to do their jobs today, and that grew to 50% when respondents looked forward a decade. Prudential embarked on a solution that involved technology and the translation of job descriptions to skills. People-Driven.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

In 2008, I contracted with Jefferson Community and Technical College to teach project management to two local businesses (my first official paid training job). We had class debates, small-group exercises, role plays, speeches and impromptu exercises. Your training does nothing for me!

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

If we can bring a different attitude to our role as a leader, if we can shift our mindset, we can impact our behaviors. A growth mindset, we believe, is one of the big four, and perhaps the biggest but not the only attitude we want our leaders to bring to their role. An Agile Mindset.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are numerous ways to use internal resources to support learning, including coaching, mentoring, apprenticing, job shadowing and engaging in trial or stretch projects. Leveraging internal resources for skill building is one of the most important tools in the learning and development leader’s arsenal.

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Living in Learning

JULY 12, 2009

I sat with three other CLO-type learning leaders from Bank of America, Disney, and Sprint. After sitting on a similar panel the previous year, I noticed immediately that the role played by just-in-time learning had increased in these three leading companies. ty : 1. ability to think and draw conclusions quickly.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But career trajectories have become more fluid, with more frequent shifts from one job or career to the next. It’s not that their roles were overwhelmingly technical, but they required openness to developing key workplace tech skills. Are skills transferable across roles, job families or industries?

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2020

Such personal traits are critical to leadership effectiveness because learning agility has become a foundational component of leadership agility. Besides learning agility, candidates for coaching should demonstrate potential as it relates to problem-solving and decision-making. Ability to embrace adaptive leadership.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

The claim that machines or robots will steal our jobs has echoed through the decades from the earliest science fiction stories to more realistic developments today in smart electronics, artificial intelligence and automation. In fact, the technological changes underway will create more jobs in different sectors if history is any indication.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Business agility is rooted in human skills. They had to learn and get on the job ASAP. Microlearning played a crucial role in helping front-line workers adopt new behaviors and reinforce new habits. Job training became online courses. Furloughed office workers became fulfillment operators. HR budgets are always tight.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 7, 2023

Most leaders return to the job equipped with action steps and the best intentions of making changes, but those plans are frequently eclipsed by the more pressing needs of demanding roles at work and home. A relationship with an executive coach marries personalized support with access to the right tools for the job.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Over this past year, there has been no shortage of content published on the importance of leadership qualities such as resilience, empathy and agility. At the same time, leadership roles are becoming increasingly complex and ambiguous, presenting new leaders with the challenge of “learning the role while leading it.”

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You don’t have a job if what you do doesn’t help your organization in some meaningful way. I don’t have a job if you don’t have a job. In some ways, this is a return to the early days of the CLO role. The post Business Is Learning appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media. It is business.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 12, 2023

Consider the forces at play that are redefining our expectations our leaders: Low unemployment rates have made it a job seekers market , giving candidates considerable negotiating power. C-suite executives are becoming more aware of the key role people leaders play in fueling employee engagement. But only 36 percent of U.S.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

CLO : What motivated you to write “The Expertise Economy”? CLO : What do you view as the most effective way to learn? The model of putting employees in a classroom and trying to teach through lecture-based training, and then hoping they would apply what they learned on the job is one of the things I realized is broken.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Amid ongoing transformation of the CLO role, today’s learning leaders need to continue to hone their business acumen. For the 10-year anniversary of the magazine, Chief Learning Officer asked Dutra how and why the role of CLO has shifted from order-taker in chief to a strategic business partner.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The pandemic and ongoing economic and political uncertainty underscore the importance of human skills — the ability to influence; collaborate across diverse, distributed teams; communicate effectively and be adaptable — in meeting the demands of an agile, volatile and competitive marketplace.

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LearnUpon

JULY 7, 2021

CLO of NASA, Dr. Karen L. Gilliam, believes training has to be practical, relevant and respectful of experience, in order to support adult learners in their roles. NASA’s CLO, Karen L. Gilliam, suggests you listen to your subject matter experts to stay up-to-date on your workforce’s training needs.

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