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.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

The Air New Zealand CLO was experiencing an ultra-rare moment for 2020, disconnected from the virtual world during the Learning in Practice Awards ceremony on Oct. 20, when she was announced as the 2020 CLO of the Year. In the midst of the global pandemic, Savion says she feels incredibly blessed to earn the title of CLO of the Year.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

CLO: How did you become interested in learning and development? Regardless of the organizations I worked or roles I’ve held (including business functional roles), I’ve always led with learning. CLO: What lesson(s) did you learn in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021? Little did I know, there were no mountains in Mt.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

She has held numerous roles in L&D, previously serving as the chief of education strategy for Dell EMC-Education Services until 2017, and as Dell Global Support and Deployment Service’s global learning officer until 2014. In 2020, she was recognized as CLO of the Year. Air Force where she spent 20 years.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Two key challenges emerged: Young employees tended to over-value promotions as the primary means of advancing their careers, often overlooking opportunities for personal growth and development within their current roles. 10 ways leaders can foster a strong workplace learning culture Get to know your team members.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

When founder and CEO Amir Mansouri started the company in 2014, cultivating culture was easy. There’s a major difference between maintaining a company culture in a small, close-knit startup with five employees and a fast-growing, mature business with 60 employees and counting. Six steps to build the best culture.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

In 2007, he was named CLO of the Year. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? CLO: What lessons did you learn in 2020 that you’ve brought with you into 2021? CLO: What strengths or skills from the world of coaching do you think are equally important or useful in a learning leader?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s possible if you create a culture of accountability. Therein lies the key to creating a culture of accountability: encouraging individuals to take ownership of their results and the consequences of those results. It comes down to the difference between command-and-control tactics with empower-and-enroll strategies.

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eLearningMind

MAY 2, 2022

CLOs take on a wide variety of tasks across their respective organizations, but ultimately they are responsible for developing a framework for organizational learning, culture, and internal growth. These are big tasks with big expectations, and the CLO now plays a critical role in shaping organizations for the future.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

With employees today viewing learning and development opportunities as a key benefit of their job — and willing to vote with their feet if those opportunities are not existent or meaningful —organizations must embrace and deliver on a culture of learning to attract and retain employees. The alternative is costly.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Under the umbrella of The Learning Forum, CLO LIFT , a group of learning and development leaders, is actively addressing persistent challenges straining the learning and development industry. The first challenge starts with valuing the role of learning itself — addressing how to encourage both employees and leaders to invest time in learning.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Other factors can play a role too. For example, if sharing information is used against an individual, or people seem annoyed by hearing about what others are doing, a culture where information is not shared can form. The table below outlines a few strategies and tactics through which L&D teams can help mitigate the silo mentality.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When COVID -19 shuttered offices, it’s no exaggeration to say learning and development professionals played a key role in assuring their organizations survived and thrived. As we face the next massive shift introduced by a hybrid workplace, the following six strategies will reshape corporate learning in 2022.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And yes, these are certainly all effective strategies to attract and retain talent. It turns out, however, that providing on-the-job professional development and skills training is one of the most desirable, effective and feasible strategies organizations can implement to improve company culture, engagement and employee retention.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 18, 2021

Not only is the role of the chief diversity officer growing and becoming more vital, but it’s evolving at a breakneck speed. To do that, let’s focus on four key goals employers often propose to me when undertaking DEI strategies: Elevate underrepresented talent, especially Black and LatinX talent, beyond front-line roles.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

When organizations hold substantial in-person onboarding sessions, they do so in order to generate excitement among new employees, expose them to the culture of the organization and provide an opportunity to form relationships and start building internal networks. Company culture is conveyed through stories and norm-setting.

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Degreed

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This strategy comes to life when you establish an internal marketplace that connects employee skills and skill development to ongoing, real-time internal opportunities for people to explore new types of work. And for a career mobility program to really fly high, managers need to play a pivotal role, Degreed CLO Kelly Palmer said.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Chief Learning Officer’s most-watched webinars of 2022 covered topics such as learning technology, the metaverse, DEI, skills development and transforming learning strategies, organizations and culture. Weber , Associate Vice Chancellor – Leader and Culture Development, Texas Tech University System. Sponsored by Whatfix.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s possible if you create a culture of accountability. Therein lies the key to creating a culture of accountability: encouraging individuals to take ownership of their results and the consequences of those results. It comes down to the difference between command-and-control tactics with empower-and-enroll strategies.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to Big Think and ATD , a learning ecosystem involves an organization’s people, technology, data, processes and culture all working together to incorporate and support learning across the enterprise. Suffice it to say, it takes multiple teams to manage an organization’s people, technology, data, processes, and culture.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

To accomplish this, the learning leaders at Choice University, the organization’s learning arm, needed to reevaluate their strategy and curriculum to better highlight agility and other key skills that the hospitality industry needed in its workforce to stay competitive. The right learning strategy won’t be one-size-fits-all.

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Degreed

JUNE 22, 2021

If you hadn’t thought about it previously, an upskilling strategy probably arrived front and center as a critical business need. And yet, how do you choose a path for your company’s upskilling strategy when you’re being asked a key question from within your organization: How will we know and build the skills we need in the future?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I attended the CLO Symposium with my ITA colleagues Jay Cross and Jane Hart. And the keynotes that I saw were in synch: Stephen Covey talked about the need for trust and Jon Katzenbach on how to build culture were both excellent, as was Dan Pontefract’s story on making collaboration intrinsic to Telus. Well, but of course !

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Two key challenges emerged: Young employees tended to over-value promotions as the primary means of advancing their careers, often overlooking opportunities for personal growth and development within their current roles. 10 ways leaders can foster a strong workplace learning culture Get to know your team members.

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Training Orchestra

JANUARY 9, 2024

The title of Chief Learning Officer (CLO) may not be as widely known as other C-suite members, but its importance is perhaps more significant now than ever before. While the CLO acronym had been used previously for other roles, Kerr’s title was the first of its kind. We’ll explore this fascinating area below.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Like most other learning organizations, th e COVID-19 pandemic was the first time professional services firm KPMG took its learning strategy completely virtual. Hybrid learning strategies that are more intentional. The 800-room leadership and learning center in Westlake, Texas was important both to build skills and build culture.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2024

Adaptability is another essential skill that allows learning leaders to pivot strategies and approaches based on changing circumstances, ensuring the success of learning initiatives. Another strategy is creating personalized learning plans tailored to individual needs and preferences to enhance employee engagement and skill development.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

So what role do the learning leaders play? Becoming a learning enterprise is a culture-change journey. Company and personal strategies and values guide it. Every day, people in formal leadership roles and those with special expertise or influence have many opportunities to help others learn. Not Just an Add-On.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

One effective way to ensure your learning strategy is delivering the best results for every dollar invested is to continuously analyze your skill data. It can help you prioritize resources, build a learning strategy that aligns with your business goals and add value to your bottom line. Skill data holds the answer(s).

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

For most CLOs and learning leaders, the word inclusion is synonymous with diversity, and diversity has become synonymous with the differences that you can see. As a result, learning leaders will create great diversity and inclusion training programs that focus on things like unconscious bias, understanding differences and cultural norms.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The biggest workplace hurdle to identifying and assessing development and training needs is lack of a “learning culture.” Organizational culture is defined as the values, assumptions, beliefs, behaviors, and norms of the enterprise, sometimes referred to as the organization’s DNA. allocation of time and effort, morale, and engagement.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Projects involving culture, change management, leadership, communications, empowerment, customer service and engagement may be at risk because their values are not clear to executives and the owners of those projects may have not taken the steps to show the business value very clearly. Identify each team member’s role and function.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 11, 2017

Provided that learning and development leaders could and should have a central role in innovation, what is the chief learning officer’s responsibility? Steven Johnson, in his 2010 book, “Where Good Ideas Come From,” discusses the role of networks to support innovation, and again the notion of time comes into play.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

While this marked the initial stride toward meeting the evolving global learning demands, it also illuminated the imperative for nurturing a robust learning and talent management culture across all facets of the organization.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2021

Not everyone works in a role (or has a home environment) where that is an option. An integrated, aligned HR function that considers the actual everyday, individual experience it serves up to each employee is better equipped to manage the transition to a balanced hybrid work culture.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2016

For some organizations, the shortage of skilled executives, middle managers and individual contributors in critical roles already is having quantifiable ramifications — from decreased production capacity to drops in customer satisfaction. Variety in career paths will play a growing role going forward to achieve and maintain this alignment.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Nowadays, learning leaders are also responsible for things like building and championing strong company culture, establishing a strong talent pipeline and are very involved in decisions regarding technological advances. Upskilling also encourages employees’ creativity and allows them to be more innovative within their roles.

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