CLO Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

Many companies experienced anywhere from a 20 to 60 percent loss in revenue in 2020, and more than 14 million Americans either temporarily or permanently lost their jobs. For so long, our idea of strong leadership has been shaped by strict delegation and direction, where managers lead the way and employees dutifully follow.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

How do you start writing an article about leadership and love? And yet here I sit attempting to explain that if you don’t love your people, you probably shouldn’t be in the business of leadership. I would’ve said something like, “Leadership isn’t about love. I would’ve said something like, “Leadership isn’t about love.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2022

Her innovative approach to training and relentless commitment to the needs of her learners is why Chief Learning Officer named Tedrick its 2021 CLO of the Year. From fashion designer to CLO. Tedrick didn’t plan to become the CLO of a $128 billion Fortune 100 company. It’s how we get support and win the trust of the business.”.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 6, 2017

According to recent reports, only 45 percent of employees have trust and confidence in the job being done by their organization’s top leaders. Even less (41 percent) think their organization is doing a good job of developing future leaders. It is a competency — and for CLOs, that’s exciting,” he said. Unpacking Trust.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

The truth is that the topic might not be new, but investment in leadership development continues to be critically important — and the need to spread the word persists. 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

MARCH 17, 2020

In the meantime, those of us involved in organizational and leadership development may find ourselves wondering how to intersect, in a meaningful way, with the emergency preparations going on in the businesses of the clients with whom we work. Still others will have financial struggles as household members potentially lose jobs.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

The value of empathetic leadership has been in the spotlight, mostly due to the adverse effects of the pandemic. In fact, Forbes touted empathy as the most important leadership skill. Research also correlates empathetic leadership with higher employee job satisfaction, performance and innovation.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

I have spent much of my career expressing complex ideas about leadership in a simple way. This is done through self leadership. The self leader lets the manager know what they need to be successful in their job. Doing what they say they will do, when they say they will do it, will build trust with their manager.

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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.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Edmondson further elaborated that it includes , “a sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, reject or punish someone for speaking up … It describes a team climate characterized by interpersonal trust and mutual respect in which people are comfortable being themselves.’’. Now is the time for empathy.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In the workplace, fostering an environment where employees feel connected and included is vital for productivity, innovation and overall job satisfaction. As a case in point, one of our clients wanted to transition from a top-down “command-and-control” culture to a collaborative, servant-based leadership approach.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

1 predictor of professional and personal excellence and it accounts for 58 percent of performance in all job types. Additionally, 90 percent of top performers in organizations have higher levels of EI, making it a critical factor for leadership success. Develop better social skills, including trust and rapport with others.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

However, research shows that the small number of women who have risen to top positions in business often possess leadership traits quite different from those associated with successful men. They also are scaling the corporate ladder in many corporations, though men still significantly outnumber women in leadership positions.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

They can also support managers by showing leadership skills by example, so these skills become normalized and ingrained within day-to-day behaviors. A strong manager-employee relationship is built on trust, respect and open communication. This can help to reduce stress and improve job satisfaction and retention.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 13, 2017

The research is in and the case has been proven: When companies create trusting work environments, employee engagement soars and the bottom line thrives. Yet most organizations don’t put resources into intentionally building trust; leaders just assume trust grows over time. That’s what a trusting environment is all about.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There’s no substitute for good leadership, and leadership is personal,” Blanchard says. The company prioritizes building collaboration and trust between leaders and their teams — both internally and by way of leadership development training. Blanchard teaches and utilizes a method called “servant leadership.”

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 22, 2017

He sat down with Chief Learning Officer at the CLO Breakfast Club event in Philadelphia in March and shared his perspective on the role of a learning executive, his background as an industrial-organizational psychologist and his advice for CLOs. ” Which is true. “Why did you make that decision?”

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

Many leaders still believe a manager’s job is to assign work, tell people what to do and reprimand them when they don’t perform. But that’s not leadership, and it’s not how to bring out the best in others. These misguided leaders are not necessarily bad people, they simply do not understand that leadership is a partnership.

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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. This redefinition of roles not only boosts efficiency but also enriches job satisfaction by enabling employees to engage more in meaningful, creative work. Instead, it thrives on flexibility.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 6, 2024

Having been a learning leader and practitioner in heavily regulated industries like financial services and health care, I’ve been charged with developing learning programs in the full range of topics, from compliance and risk management to leadership development. Leaders must be candid and start with creating safety and trust.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

In a groundbreaking global study, McKinsey identified three of the four key skill areas critical to employment and job satisfaction as the nature of work continues to transform the foundational skills of resilience: cognitive, interpersonal and self-leadership skills, with the fourth being digital technical skills.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

There are jobs today that didn’t even exist just a few years ago. The reason, we tell ourselves, is that we believe that technical expertise will, somehow, translate into managerial or leadership expertise. Becoming expert teams To do this, an intensive, interdisciplinary and experiential leadership development program is necessary.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2017

In recent years, CLOs have faced growing headwinds when it comes to making a business case for leadership development. And the authors of an October 2016 article in Harvard Business Review referred to leadership development programs as the “great training robbery.”. Yes, Leadership Development Works.

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OpenSesame

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could – Steve Jobs. Leadership plays a vital role in making significant impact on the strategic management process. Competent leadership is of utmost importance to guide the organization through prodigious changes. Critical Thinking. Communication.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Others suggested that senior leaders need to place a higher priority on leadership development if they want to achieve their goals for the organization. Participants saw a clear connection between leadership capability and employee experience. In other words — and I can’t say this enough lately — your leadership matters.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 6, 2016

Worse, most leadership development programs turn out to be ineffective and expensive. These programs provide little focus on the social, interpersonal and strategic aspects of leadership, and what’s learned is often difficult to apply. Trust is important within an action learning team. But there’s an alternative.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 13, 2023

Everyone looks to the learning and organizational development professionals to drive change and lead the way in developing, improving, and reinforcing leadership and management development: beginning with strategy, through to learning, processes and measurement. Managers must ensure the job, tasks and goals are crystal clear.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

But what really sounded the alarm for the company’s optimistic and charming CEO was this: Senior leadership — more than 100 VPs and above — were the lowest scoring cohort, scoring both those questions only at about a six. It’s one thing for an aligned team of leaders to earn the trust of the masses. How did he do it?

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

Gone are the days when job skills alone guaranteed success in the workplace. Research by McKinsey & Company from 2021 highlights the positive relationship between adaptability and job performance, indicating that adaptable individuals are more likely to succeed in dynamic work environments. 2014; Hur et al.,

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 20, 2018

According to some estimates, companies spend as much as $50 billion a year on leadership development in the hope of finding and developing their future leaders. While that commitment is certainly crucial, in many cases the most important investment in leadership starts way earlier with our first role models: mom and dad.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 1, 2013

Developing employees can inspire trust and improve the bottom line. There’s no doubt that trust plays a critical role in leadership. That’s why in my last column I introduced the four qualities that serve as cornerstones in building trusting relationships: being able, believable, connected and dependable.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

Their findings were: A mentor helps their mentee gain clarity on career goals, develop leadership skills, clarify values and leverage their talents. Trust blossoms in the Metaverse Trust is the foundation of any mentor-mentee relationship. Afterward, researchers assessed the participants’ feelings about the situation.

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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. These changes and many others are necessitating a new type of leader with an evolving set of leadership skills.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2023

The truth is, the best learning solutions won’t matter if you don’t have these two essential elements: Trust and psychological safety. What do we mean by trust in the workplace? Trust in the workplace isn’t the only foundational part of a people team’s success. How can you embed trust-building into learning experiences?

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, the newly published “CEMS Guide to Leadership in a Post-COVID-19 World” — which makes recommendations for leaders, educators and professionals post-pandemic — reveals that COVID-19 has yielded a unique opportunity to stop, reflect and learn; to rethink the culture, operations, processes, frameworks and leadership that define us.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Each day presented a new challenge, as staff quickly learned that standard operating practices and procedures didn’t work in an environment where crises and disruptive change thwarted efforts to get the job done. They engage in the science and best practices of building organizational resilience through collective leadership.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

It’s been more than 20 years since Charan, Drotter and Noel published “The Leadership Pipeline,” which highlighted the need to develop leadership at every level of the organization. Before we delve into what has changed for leaders at different levels, it is worth sharing some of the focus areas required for self-leadership.

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