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Stop talking training and start talking value

CLO Magazine

Applied in the context of learning and development, if an intervention is provided by the L&D function, involves instruction and learners, then it is “training.” This is an unfortunate truth, because to external appearances, most training does indeed look the same. Like ducks, such programs look a lot alike.

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Diversity Is Learning’s Business

CLO Magazine

In 2017, the #MeToo movement went viral, laying bare the scale of sexual harassment and abuse across the country, especially in the workplace. From Anti-Harassment to Unconscious Bias . It wasn’t until the late 1980s and early 1990s that some American businesses took a serious look at diversity in the workplace.

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Fewer Mentors, Bigger Problems

CLO Magazine

A 2018 survey from the LeanIn Foundation and SurveyMonkey found that nearly half of male managers felt uncomfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, such as mentoring, working alone or socializing together. That means about 1 in 6 male managers would hesitate to mentor a woman. Self-Imposed Fear.

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The values-driven leader

CLO Magazine

It was a huge learning experience.” Together, they made a list of 15 actions the company could take to improve the culture, which included hiring more diverse models and boycotting Facebook ads, as part of the Stop Hate for Profit campaign — even though Facebook was a primary driver of revenue for the company.

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5 strategies to diminish sexual harassment and toxicity in mentoring

CLO Magazine

Mentoring, long touted as one of the key solutions to inequality at work, may be less appealing to both men and women these days. Prominent men are being publicly outed for sexual harassment, with the latest examples coming from French gaming company Ubisoft , U.S.-based Even women working from home are not immune to sexual harassment.

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How to Make BYOD Work

CLO Magazine

For those deploying enterprise learning, BYOD can cause nightmares. But companies have been on the front end of major technology transformations before, said Avron Barr, director of the International Federation for Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability (LETSI), a nonprofit organization focused on technology in learning.

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Women in Ed-Tech: Technically Proficient

CLO Magazine

In learning and development, data from the Chief Learning Officer Business Intelligence Board found that women make up 60 percent of training and development managers. Currently, more than 70 percent of teachers in U.S. public schools are women, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.