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. In contrast, Zaxby’s , a franchisor of gourmet chicken restaurants with 20,000 employees, has made training and development part of every manager’s job. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. .

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

As companies evolve to manage their growth, making sure the right people are in the right jobs should be part of the conversation. Whether an employee is in an entry-level role or holds the most sophisticated and complex role in the organization, people who are curious better serve the cause. Great companies run on great talent.

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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. Scale your capabilities to accelerate harmonized workforce development.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 20, 2018

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has already created many new jobs and is shifting the skills required in jobs across the board. Of the nine learning methods examined by the study, instructor-led training, short-clip video, and coaching and mentoring were the top three learning approaches cited by respondents overall.

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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. Think about it: The retirement of baby boomers means job openings. What’s a CLO to Do?

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 3, 2023

If your organization isn’t offering help to grow your relationship skills, or personalized coaching and mentoring to support your development, then it’s time to look elsewhere. According to the data, coaching and mentoring are increasingly seen as fulfilling a growing corporate need for greater personalization.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Upskilling also encourages employees’ creativity and allows them to be more innovative within their roles. But, I am extremely confident in the ability of L&D professionals and the critical role they play in setting the stage for the future of work.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

During the conversation, she mentioned she told her head of recruiting that the posting duration for jobs was getting ridiculous. Identify priority roles and create internal career pathways. To start building talent internally, you first need to prioritize the most important roles.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Ekpedeme “Pamay” Bassey, CLO of The Kraft Heinz Co., Now, after coming on board as CLO for Kraft Heinz in Chicago last December, Bassey is reimagining the company’s approach to corporate learning. You don’t want to be sitting in a room, bored to tears because you’re listening to something that’s totally irrelevant to your job.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 16, 2024

As we know, learning and development plays a critical role in embracing disruptions and helping your workplace adapt to them. L&D can also play a huge role in ensuring the workforce is proficient in any new digital tools or platforms, essentially acting as a resource center with space to make mistakes.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Q: In your last column , you offered suggestions on how HR managers can best retain valuable female talent as the job market heats up. In addition, they need to develop a network of connections (mentors and advisors) to fuel their growing confidence. Encourage them to declare their ambition.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Job posting durations are growing in some of the most in-demand fields, and 2020 freshmen enrollment numbers are down 22 percent compared with 2019 numbers , with the expectation they’ll continue to drop year-over-year. How did you get into a new field or a new role? Last week I had a call with a CLO for a large health care provider.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For example, an overwhelming number of employees say upskilling opportunities can increase their job satisfaction and the overall likelihood that they’ll stay with an organization. Upskilling initiatives require financial investment, whether through tuition reimbursement, paying for certifications or paying someone to simply learn on the job.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Building a personal performance network: One of the most critical assets a new hire can build is a personal network within the organization to help them assimilate, grow and perform in their role. The tool would review large batches of job applicants’ résumés to identify top talent. What you can do to mitigate the risks.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

According to research by McKinsey & Company , the leading reason for quitting jobs from April 2021 to Apri 2022 was: “lack of career development & advancement.” They also might not know what is most tangibly linked to the next job. Increase access to programs that connect all employees to mentors, sponsors and coaches.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Traditional mentoring was one older expert grooming a younger one for a specific role. Technological influences, millennials and a global workforce have all left their mark on the practice, helping to create a new mindset about what mentoring is today. People meet online, in groups and possibly never in person.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2023

The growing use of technology across job functions is designed to streamline processes, boost productivity, improve customer service and reduce costs. Unfortunately, it can also discourage job seekers from applying for positions because of concerns that they lack the right tech skills. And it’s not just in tech-specific roles.

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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

APRIL 14, 2024

My first sales job was in an industry with high attrition—selling copiers and fax machines. The material was taught in a traditional classroom with one instructor, out of a binder with quizzes after each section and a final assessment and role play in front of the class at the end.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

From your leadership experience in your previous roles, and now as a learning leader at PepsiCo, in your opinion, what’s an important trait every leader should possess? If you’re perceived as being good at a lot of things, people will constantly ask you to do those things, even when they’re not your job. In other words, set boundaries.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2021

On the one hand, job openings have reached a record high, with more than 10 million open roles. We see two-year schools as an untapped resource for improving diversity across a number of fast-growing roles. Last year, we expanded our outreach to community and technical colleges including for associate degree students.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

They feel isolated, underprepared, scared to make a mistake and even afraid they might lose their job because of performance. We need to provide consistent feedback at scale for situational learning to better develop job-ready employees in sales, service, support, leadership and HR roles.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

However, these jobs are hardly ever framed in such ways. federal government, I worked on designing and implementing training, and coaching and mentoring programs to attract new employees. The key was to use the on-the-job experiences to enrich L&D activities. Second, mentoring is easy to set up.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

If you know who your people are, what skills and knowledge they possess, what their potential is and what motivates them, then you have the knowledge needed to redeploy the right people into the right roles at the right times. Post-deployment, these insights can help employees as they navigate novel tasks and challenges in their new role.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

Even some award-winning training programs are missing the critical element that will ensure program success and demonstrate organizational value: Level 3 data connecting on-the-job performance to program results. On-the-job experience, or learning in the flow of work , is one of the biggest sources of learning for employees.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As a chief learning officer, you can play a key role in shifting organizational views of failure in order to construct this successful post-pandemic future. Put reverse mentoring schemes in place — a practical way to help senior people learn while creating a safe environment for more junior employees. Know yourself as a CLO.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

A new leadership role, and the skills and mindsets required to play it Navigating these disruptions is transforming the skills and mindset required of senior executive leaders, including chief learning officers. Today’s business leaders need to see addressing social challenges as at the heart of their job description.

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Allison Rossett

MARCH 19, 2012

This is the tale of a job hunt that I began in November, 2011. Even more time was spent searching for the ideal job openings and filling out the specialized online applications. A bit more time was spent reaching out to a network of colleagues and mentors. You write a blog for CLO?! On the trail to a new position.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Women have taken a serious toll and the threat of losing key female talent is only likely to get worse as COVID-19 ends and the job market opens. Help women realize that success in their job doesn’t mean they have to boil the ocean. So what can you, as an HR manager, do? Support women in narrowing their focus.

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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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CLO Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Second, the group leader’s mindset and role should support opportunities interwoven throughout the group’s primary work functions. Among these are activities that employees are already engaged in every day as part of their jobs and through which both work and professional development can be achieved.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Making employees feel valued is far harder, of course, when those teams do their jobs out in the field, not at HQ where managers can stroll by and easily offer guidance or support. Look for apps that include communication and mobile learning features that allow deskless workers to surface ideas and mentor and support one another.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sabrina is spearheading a mentoring program at Encompass to help with skills advancement, and there is an undeniable demand for it. Employees have voluntarily come forward as both mentors and mentees for the program, indicating a clear recognition at Encompass and many other organizations that technical expertise alone is no longer enough.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

One of the biggest challenges associated with mentoring programs is keeping executives and employees invested. When she was hired in 2013, one of her first mandates was to breathe new life into the mentoring culture. That’s one of the key benefits of formal versus informal mentoring programs, she said.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

She had been quickly promoted over a 10-year period and was operating in a senior leadership role at a Fortune 100 company. She was forced to abandon behaviors that once assured her success but no longer served her as well as demonstrate resilience and vulnerability well beyond what she ever considered necessary as job requirements.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

Research also correlates empathetic leadership with higher employee job satisfaction, performance and innovation. A second mindset empathetic leaders embrace is that their job is to serve the best interests of their people. That’s simply not the reality of leading people, because as one of my mentors told me, people are messy!

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

I decided to shift my career focus and went back to school for a master’s in organizational development as I also explored jobs within the learning and development field. level job that made the most sense in the field was in HR’s training and development function. 1: To view your career as a portfolio and not “a job.”

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