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 25, 2023

We call it “Leadership 2.0.” The oft-cited leadership development model of 70/20/10 has been around since the 1980s, helping us to describe how leaders grow. Leadership is a fundamentally human endeavor. She’d been very successful as a manager. But with up to 60 percent of new managers failing, it’s a risk.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When these intellectual and psychological challenges are unsupported by leaders, 41 percent of Gallup poll respondents identified wanting to change organizational culture which included “better managers.” Empathy can also be learned and coupled with leadership development. Empathy is defined as a key element of emotional intelligence.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

One of the most worrisome developments is the impact to leadership pipelines. There are a few ways you can organically develop leadership skills in your employees. During the open house, individuals can move from department to department and learn how each plays a critical role in the organization. According to the 2010 U.S.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Some may wonder why executives need further leadership development. After all, they’ve succeeded at multiple leadership roles as they moved up the ranks. Avoid offering an executive cohort of your regular leadership program. Recent studies in neuroscience give us some critical clues.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

Additionally, as more and more companies take leadership positions on responding to these ESG challenges, this in itself is leading to industry transformations that are also driving disruption. CEOs see their new role as influencing change in their organizations to open up the space for others to behave differently.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

We support ourselves better when we acknowledge that leadership is hard. She had been quickly promoted over a 10-year period and was operating in a senior leadership role at a Fortune 100 company. Throughout our coaching, I guided and supported Emily as the reality that “leadership is hard” caught up with her.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

In our research, we asked two questions: One: Should managers be involved in the employee retention process (the results were overwhelming- the manager is crucial to employee retention!)? compared to how employees felt their managers were doing with these same people, soft skills. Do they have the skills necessary?

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Chief Learning Officer recently sat down with David DeFilippo, principal of DeFilippo Leadership Inc. DeFilippo has been in senior talent management and development for more than 25 years, and has previously served in numerous learning leader roles , including CLO for BNY Mellon and also for Suffolk Construction.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s clear that the model for leadership will have to change dramatically to fit the evolving needs of next-gen leaders. According to DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2021 , global bench strength has been diminishing over the past decade. Further, companies report only being able to fill about 47 percent of leadership roles on average.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Without access to these offerings, leaders are left alone to connect the dots and figure out how the DEI pieces fit into the larger puzzle that is leadership. When we keep DEI training separate from other leadership development offerings, we cannot expect leaders to treat what they are learning with an equal level of importance.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Each year, the Chief Learning Officer of the Year Award is presented to an individual learning executive who delivers the most exemplary development and guidance, is a strategic business partner and provides essential leadership to the organizational learning and development function. 20, when she was announced as the 2020 CLO of the Year.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Existing models of leadership were already under strain. But only a minority of employees trust their managers. Your leadership decisions can create much-needed predictability and stability — especially for people who are unsettled and anxious. The COVID-19 pandemic changed our world. A new kind of leader is needed for it.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Should your organization have a CCO and CLO? Shared means we all have a part in the outcome and the input…If you create a job called “Culture Chief” you’ve just provided a backdoor for every manager, every employee to use as their personal escape route when culture starts to go wrong at your company. Operative word.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 13, 2023

What is the difference between a leader, a manager, a coach and a mentor? Worse, the words leader , manager , coach and mentor are often used interchangeably. How are managers supposed to know what the differences are, and when and with whom to use each approach? Others are telling their managers to mentor their people.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 30, 2023

In this article, I will describe how coaching can augment leadership development, promote knowledge transfer and skills on the job and sustain leadership behaviors over time. In the case of leadership development, coaching can augment the formal classroom or virtual learning experience.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Chief Learning Officer recently sat down with longtime CLO Advisory Board member Diana Thomas, executive coach and advisor for Winning Results LLC. In 2014, she received CLO’s Norman B. Kamikow Learning Leadership Award. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? I think it was in my passion.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

From this experience—which brought students, community members, faculty, staff and leadership together—five core values were identified to lead the university forward: One Team, Kindhearted, Integrity, Visionary and Beyond Service. This competency aims to develop all team members to be effective decision-makers regardless of their role.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There has never been a more urgent call for human-centered leadership. We learned flexibility is priceless—and in a competitive job market, many employees demand that roles not require being in the office five days a week. Manage through networks—not hierarchies. Develop your emerging leaders.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 19, 2018

A self-proclaimed “accidental CLO,” Jesse Jackson has served in numerous roles at the multinational banking and financial services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co. Navy, he joined the bank’s management development program more than 25 years ago, starting as a teller and a banker. Photo by David Lubarsky.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While the concept of “servant leadership” — a leadership philosophy which turns the traditional power dynamic on its head — dates back more than 2,000 years, it has recently experienced a renaissance. The model of traditional leadership is dead by virtue of the fact that it’s impossible to execute! . Act as a bridge-builder.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Whether you made a conscious choice to become a leader or assumed your first leadership position due to circumstance, think back for a moment to that time. What beliefs about leadership led you to become the leader you were then — and helped shape the leader you are today? We call this story the person’s leadership point of view.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And the data backs us up: 51 percent of HR managers indicate training employees is their primary method of addressing the skills gap in their organizations. And yet, these managers lack buy-in from leadership for L&D: 6 54 percent say leadership often sees L&D as a cost, not an investment.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 1, 2017

These workers are being promoted into leadership roles daily, often without being fully ready or being adequately prepared to transition from star individual contributor to equally successful manager. To prep millennials for leadership roles, it’s important to focus on what your organization believes makes a great leader.

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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

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. In emergencies, leadership needs to be able to break out all over the place. Be that leader.

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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

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

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. Manage Talent, Manage Careers. If so, you are not alone. Why is this?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For several years now, many management authors have been discussing how the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world in which we live requires a new set of leadership skills. As Nicholas Kristof noted in The New York Times , “It’s not that the leaders who best managed the virus were all women.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

You may or may not have the ability to invest in leadership development right now, yet your organization needs effective leaders to stay competitive in this season of volatility. Why have traditional leadership development programs failed? Develop leadership by doing leadership. Leadership is a verb.

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Chief Learning Officer

JANUARY 10, 2022

This was how a senior executive responded when asked about the current status of their management team. For the past 18 months, managers had guided their teams through nonstop, pandemic-induced disruption. On the corporate side, managers led the shift to remote work while relearning how to do their own jobs digitally.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As remote work transitions from a temporary pandemic necessity to a permanent workplace fixture, talent leaders must ensure a successful remote working model, which begins with investing in support for managers. Managers are the most important people in your business. Being the manager is not the same as knowing how to manage.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Their people will listen attentively — but apprehensively — as they get ready to resume their old roles in a new world. The post Leadership and the return to the office appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media. Take a few minutes to get settled, and then we’ll catch up in the conference room.”.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The book focused on Bill Belichick’s formative years as an athlete and student, as well as his progression from an assistant football coach to his current role as head coach of the NFL’s New England Patriots. This formative career experience shaped how I see the role of a chief learning officer.

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