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 1, 2021

Under her leadership, Nationwide was ranked as the No. CLO: What was your first official job in learning and development? Assistant director of learning and development at Ohio Health, a hospital group, leading leadership development. CLO: What lessons did you learn in 2020 that you’ve brought with you into 2021?

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Department of Revenue, our weekly leadership podcast meeting is one component of a holistic leadership development ecosystem currently in development. This leadership podcast directly connects to the agency’s vision, “to be an innovative, customer-focused and employee-centered agency.”

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Traditional managers and leaders tell you what to do. But adopting a coaching mindset in leadership — asking rather than telling — opens a lot of doors for leaders and their teams, says Magdalena Mook, CEO at the International Coaching Federation.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

If your organization is making a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and your teams are becoming more diverse, you are well on your way to accomplishing two very important steps in the DEI journey. Now, for the next step: What does it take for managers to leverage the power of these diverse teams?

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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 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. Assign one or two individuals per department or team to develop a presentation — a PowerPoint or the like — about the work done in their department.

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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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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. In this post: What is a Chief Learning Officer?

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SweetRush

DECEMBER 15, 2023

SweetRush wins Gold for Connected Manager, an innovative leadership development program co-created with client-partner Capgemini, that helps Capgemini’s leaders experience connected, collaborative teamwork in a fresh, exciting way. The post SweetRush Wins Two CLO Learning in Practice Gold Awards appeared first on SweetRush.

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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

APRIL 8, 2021

Chief Learning Officer recently sat down with Erv Lessel, managing director for Deloitte Consulting LLP. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? CLO: What lessons did you learn in the past year in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021? Chief Learning Officer: Where is your hometown?

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What makes an effective team? They used a combination of “hard” performance metrics and “soft” evaluations by leaders, executives and team members to measure effectiveness and found eight attributes that contribute to it. Managers were rated as “consistent,” “strong” or “outstanding.”. Methodology.

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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

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

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In an era of remote working, organizations are scrambling to figure out three crucial things: How to retain employees from afar, how to foster leadership and development and how to demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. After all, a rising tide should lift all boats and a bird in the hand should be worth two in the bush.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

I was recently reminded about the early formation of leadership behaviors while attending a webinar focused on “Leadership on the Sea” that was facilitated by a friend who I have known since we were both teenagers. Patrick teaches a course to seniors called “Leadership and Literature” at Tabor Academy.

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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! .

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There has never been a more urgent call for human-centered leadership. Model resilience behaviors yourself, focusing on physical, emotional, mental and social resilience practices and ensure team members are encouraged and supported in their well-being practices. Manage through networks—not hierarchies. Walk your EDI talk.

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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

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

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. CLO LIFT’s values group is taking on this particular challenge as time, by orders of magnitude, is the largest investment that goes into learning. “We

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 30, 2020

As such, the shift to leadership development through digital platforms is a critical element of successfully making the new remote work environment work while continuing to focus on your leadership initiatives. Develop Standards for Remote Management Evaluation. Get started with these simple, yet powerful, tips.

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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

JULY 18, 2021

Rather than siloing these objectives onto separate teams, CLOs and CDOs can accomplish more by working together, while also measuring and tracking progress at the same time. In response, the learning team is now creating intentional upskilling efforts as a “fast follow” to the hiring process.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But today, and in the future, the new challenge for learning teams is to create an edge for their organization by radically improving their development of technical specialists. A global insurance broker is building enterprise skills in its broker and actuarial teams. The race to develop talent is changing its focus.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

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. COVID-19 has ushered in a new template we should be following when recruiting our managers and team leaders. Empathetic leadership. Healthy priorities.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

A close-knit industry stretched to its limits Leadership has always been critical to a company’s success, but it is getting harder as the pace of change accelerates. That’s why 70 percent of managers across different industries say they feel overworked and overstressed. I think the learning experience for us is well-balanced.

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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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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

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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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. Emerging Leaders: A development program for those who are newly promoted into a leadership role.

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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

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

AUGUST 17, 2020

How does your organization define what “good” leadership looks like? Too often, there is a lack of alignment around an organization’s leadership model , a specific set of phrases that is designed to guide leadership behavior across a particular organization. Now think about a colleague in your organization. Question No.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, before leaving his office the day before hopping on a plane to attend Chief Learning Officer ’s 2019 Fall Symposium in Chicago, where he would receive this year’s 2019 CLO of the Year award, he sent a note to his team about setting up the next step in evolution they will head at DAU. Jim Woolsey. Photos by Jeff Millies.

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