CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This is where diversity and inclusion efforts to bring a more diverse group of candidates to the leadership table risk undermining the principle that the most qualified person should get the job. Organizations are modeled on the principle that competence is the primary factor in promotion decisions.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2018

This mistrust is one of the reasons why diversity and inclusion has taken a new air of importance at work, yet many corporate learning and development functions have traditionally steered clear of the topic, leaving it to HR or a dedicated diversity function. This is particularly true in the workplace.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This elevates the sense of trust and ownership, strengthening relationships between leaders and employees, as well as generating diversity of thought which can drive innovation across the whole organization. One participant came forward and said he wished he’d learned coaching skills when he first became a manager—38 years ago!

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

AI-driven efficiency: More than just speed AI’s role in today’s workplace goes beyond just automating repetitive tasks. Redefining roles: A collaborative symphony In a hybrid work environment, the roles of humans and AI are being redefined. It brings a level of efficiency that is reshaping industries.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Disruptions and crises have a nasty habit of showing up unannounced, catching us off-guard, and very often unprepared. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – JFK The challenge Over the last few years, these conditions have put enormous pressure on organizations, their leaders and their boards of directors.

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Limestone Learning

MARCH 28, 2024

Embrace the spring energy with engaging, free learning opportunities. PT: The Relationship of the CLO to the CFO Influencing the CFO is paramount, particularly for the Chief Learning Officer (CLO), whose initiatives often face scrutiny during cost-cutting measures. Artha Learning Inc.’s Performing a slide audit.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Just listening is a gift: It builds trust, strengthens relationships and lifts the mood of the speaker. Servant leaders know that trust is the foundation of any successful relationship. But only a minority of employees trust their managers. In fact, 58 percent of workers trust strangers more than their boss.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2023

HR and learning leaders are being tasked to improve employee performance and ultimately operational excellence. Nowadays, organizations have so many options to develop their employees: They can select a learning vendor promising to improve employee skill sets. They can revamp their in-person training to bring people together.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

So how can organizations focus diversity and inclusion efforts to address cultural groups’ unique needs and build fluid, cross-cultural communities that promote collaboration and avoid pigeonholing? The benefits of diversity in the workplace are clear. One Size Doesn’t Fit All Women. Recognize Intersectional Identities.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

In learning and development, we often feel like the last ones to be taken care of. Our roles are to serve our business and our learners. Create a learning strategy. Optimize your learning tech stack for maximum consumption by learners, data management aligned with the business, learning measurement and ROI.

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Limestone Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kicking off 2024 with ambitions to elevate your game? In this rapidly evolving terrain, L&D professionals are tasked with learning the ins and outs of AI quickly, often with little to no previous exposure. You’ll: Explore how to get started as a podcaster, and how it supports the training function.

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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. Simultaneously, they quickly redesigned major training initiatives to ensure uninterrupted learning and growth during a time of unprecedented change.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

The ability to embrace change, learn new skills and quickly adapt to different situations is crucial. Research found that individuals with higher emotional intelligence tend to be more effective in leadership roles, display better interpersonal skills and exhibit higher levels of job performance. 2014; Hur et al.,

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2020

Six months into COVID-19, organizations are moving away from work-from-home concerns to focus on employee re-entry, with an eye toward talent engagement and retention — all amidst newly heightened awareness around diversity, equity and inclusion. Investing in training and upskilling to meet specific needs of multicultural employees.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2020

Many organizations have publicly pledged to better weave diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and programs throughout all levels of the business in order to establish a more supportive, inclusive culture. And leaders, including those in HR and learning and development, play an increasingly critical role in workplace culture.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

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

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having transitioned from direct selling to learning and development a couple of times in my career, I have noticed some deficits in skilling approaches that may not be obvious to those who have never sold. In the past couple of years, I have been working hard to promote and protect the learner’s perspective. What worked well? Peer mentorship.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 3, 2018

With the publication of my new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy , I have continued to focus my blog posts on a manager’s role in supporting continuous learning for all employees in the workplace. And I have examined an employee’s responsibility for continuous learning in the Knowledge Economy.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In recent years, there has been a lot of focus on adaptive e-learning, fueled by the advances of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Personalized and adaptive learning has the ability to change learning content or the mode of delivery on the fly and to provide real-time feedback to learners. What Could Go Wrong?

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Successful businesses bring together diverse teams of employees to serve a broad base of customers. Provide training. Supervisors must learn how to adjust their managerial approach to enable remote workers to be successful outside the office. Managers are the most important people in your business.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 12, 2023

A number of tragedies have amplified the social justice movement, with 76 percent of workers now saying “ a diverse workforce is an important factor when evaluating companies and job offers.” Times of great disruption demand new kinds of leaders, for what was successful in the past may be of limited value in the present.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2019

Diversity and inclusion is one of the most pressing issues facing companies today. But after years of rolling out initiatives that reap few to no rewards, diversity fatigue is setting in. The numbers in Atlassian’s “State of Diversity and Inclusion in U.S. What We Can Learn From Cultural Awareness .

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 9, 2021

So, it’s vital that we embed inclusion and accessibility in our organizations and in our learning processes, practices and content. Here are five practical facts learning leaders should know to progress toward true inclusion for people with disabilities. In the U.S. But you do actually have to ask.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

We call this transformation “career enablement,” a new and innovative type of work culture that fosters employee engagement and boosts talent development and retention with cross-functional learning opportunities. Career development is a dynamic, flexible and shared process in which everyone has an important role. Employee initiated.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The past several years have been an ultramarathon for organizational leaders: They’ve led by example where none existed, and surmounted steep learning curves around remote work and an unpredictable economy. To succeed, they must lead with agility, compassion and careful commitment to flourishing talent through learning and development.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Although most do not yet realize it, the world of learning and development and HR just changed dramatically for the better — and there will be no going back. The change is coming first to publicly traded companies, but it will not stop there. The long-awaited age of transparency for both investors and employees is finally here.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The fight to fill roles is fundamental to maintaining a competitive advantage — but so is employee retention. Many employers are investing in programs such as paid time off and technology, such as apps designed to address well-being. Companies are facing a growing skills gap and a struggle for talent across all industries. Upskilling.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

He worked his way up from aspiring academic to public school teacher to corporate instructional designer and eventually into the top learning job at Discover Financial Services, a Chicago-area firm with 17,000 employees. What he did in response catapulted his career forward and led to some of the learning organization’s greatest successes.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Research conducted by Training magazine and The Ken Blanchard Cos. And only 1 in 4 people think their organization does a good job of team leader training. And training is the key. In the past, training has typically focused on individual managers or contributors. The key to higher performance is team training.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2021

As part of that discussion, we found ourselves brainstorming firms, roles and contacts relevant to their next steps. I learned this lesson in a big way about 20 years ago when I was working remotely for a firm that was based two time zones away. I was recently helping a colleague who was preparing for a job transition.

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OpenSesame

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Leadership plays a vital role in making significant impact on the strategic management process. For aspiring leaders, it is paramount to learn and adapt to new conducts to deal with unforeseen business challenges. Unquestionably the most critical function of a leader’s role is thinking. Critical Thinking. Communication.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Assemble a group with diverse expertise and experience. It’s an approach that draws from diverse perspectives, thereby stimulating collective problem-solving. The health and financial crisis brought on by covid-19 has greatly amplified this.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We show up, we face the challenge, we survive and learn and then we tell our stories. And here’s the even better news: We can learn faster from those experiences— and increase our resiliency — when we share those stories and listen to those stories with more intention. Here’s the good news: Human resilience is a tremendous force.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Equally vivid are memories of teams where communication did not flow, trust between team members was low, clarity was lacking, people held back in sharing ideas and opinions, and the teams therefore struggled to meet expected deliverables and deadlines. Have you ever worked on a team with low psychological safety?

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

Organizational success is driven by strong leadership, and companies that invest in leadership training consistently appear on most-admired and best-of lists. Organizational success is driven by strong leadership, and companies that invest in leadership training consistently appear on most-admired and best-of lists.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 16, 2020

It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that in a recent Center for Creative Leadership online survey of more than 500 global leaders, 53 percent chose agile innovation as one of the top trends to impact their businesses over the next five years. Team: Increases team morale through cross-collaboration and experimentation.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

Many organizations are rushing into unconscious bias training, also known as implicit or cognitive bias training. This “check the box” approach typically results in poorly planned and delivered learning experiences, which can lead to an unanticipated backlash against the material.

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