CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

No longer confined to managing training programs leading learning and development teams, today’s CLOs are integral to broader talent management strategies that drive organizational success. Let’s delve into the expanded role of the CLO and how it intersects with talent management.

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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. Plus, trial and error can take a long time and cause suffering for leaders and their teams. And scared. Connection.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There are multiple global events impacting the workforce’s intellectual and emotional ability to perform successfully. In addition, employees are craving employer-supported mental health and lifestyle balance. Trauma, isolation, mental health and disengagement create a need for empathetic support.

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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

JULY 7, 2023

Consider those stats in the context of a leadership development program — a more than $370 billion global market. Given the resources organizations are devoting to leadership development, not to mention the future stakes of the leadership pipeline, these programs must work. Two weeks later, Kyle had a coaching session.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Should your organization have a CCO and CLO? I agree with Hebert and I have similar concerns with having a CLO (Chief Learning Officer). Learning is what employees in high performance organizations must do continuously as part of their jobs. Companies don’t have CWOs (Chief Work Officer), so why do they have CLOs?

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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

MAY 20, 2021

They also do not have the resources to provide the one-on-one support needed to help new hires figure out how to apply training to actual work scenarios. They feel isolated, underprepared, scared to make a mistake and even afraid they might lose their job because of performance.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

For leadership development, this should be impact and not behavior. Let’s review how leadership development accountability has evolved. Decades ago, we wanted participants involved in leadership development to perceive the content as valuable, important to them and something they would try. Accountability shifts.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

The antiquated view that learning is designed to solely support traditional corporate ladder pathways is no longer effective in organizations. Mapping multiple learning lane options, not just leadership development, is crucial for the skills development of any workforce. Leadership skills are an integral piece of any L&D portfolio.

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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. The Life-Long Leader Compass was created in response to this challenge.

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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. The team scaled that curriculum and we got them trained,” Tedrick says. From fashion designer to CLO.

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Avilar

MAY 18, 2022

It’s always been important for leaders to hone their management skills to keep up with organizational priorities, leadership best practices, and workforce trends. Effective practices for connecting with remote employees, developing teams with widely distributed members, and managing performance remotely continue to evolve.

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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

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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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 2, 2020

Have you ever worked on a team with low psychological safety? We have been part of teams that came together rapidly, agreed on a common understanding of next steps (though it took challenging conversations to come to agreement), executed flawlessly and then disbanded and moved on to other initiatives.

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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. Individuals should not necessarily be focused on a set of jobs as opposed to a set of skill sets and attributes needed to perform effectively.”

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

As more time goes on between “what used to be” and “the new normal,” the need to establish updated procedures for employee-performance conversations has become imperative. Employee performance conversations can be challenging for all involved, even without considerations related to working remotely during a pandemic.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Organizations need great leaders who can identify emerging challenges, inspire their team and turn strategy into effective action. According to some surveys, a fraction of CEOs believe their companies are building effective global leaders and 1 in 10 believe leadership development initiatives have a clear impact on business.

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Roundtable Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2021

We are thrilled to have worked on this CLO award-winning project with Lincoln Financial Group,” said Rose Robertson, Roundtable Learning’s Director of Learning Solutions. Our teams truly collaborated on this project that, due to the pandemic, pivoted to something very different than originally planned.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 18, 2020

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. Department of Defense.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A strong leadership pipeline is critical to the success of any organization. One common strategy is to compare the performance of your leaders to industry-wide norms and then invest in development strategies to close any gaps. Pull together any available data on your culture, employee engagement, leadership behaviors and practices.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

ChoiceU has been around for almost 20 years and supports the learning needs of 7,100 franchises and 65,000 external staff worldwide. While supporting the needs of these parties, the learning organization must also support Choice’s overall business strategy. Photo © Tony Powell. Choice Hotels International Reception Area.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Effective leadership is a transformational journey made up of four “spheres of influence.” These are self leadership, one-on-one leadership, team leadership and organizational leadership. The bull’s-eye in the middle — self leadership — is the heart of the four spheres. We live in teams.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For good reason, too: More than half of respondents said AI made them more productive by substantially reducing time spent performing daily tasks. Yet we, as learning and development professionals, still must make our teams future-ready, without knowing exactly what tomorrow will bring. What skills should we invest in building next?

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Likewise, access to advanced data analytics unlocks numerous advantages such as the ability to enhance employee performance assessments or cybersecurity programs. Given the high popularity of remote and hybrid work models, companies want to see their leaders “actually create a more inclusive environment within their micro-team.”

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As people actually lived at work because they were working from home — and were forced to integrate work and life at almost every turn — L&D professionals realized their organizations had to rethink the definition of good leadership. Flexibility was no longer an ideal, it became a necessity. This continues to be true in 2023.

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Degreed

MARCH 10, 2022

To give your people the development they seek, and to create real business value for your organization, it makes sense to embrace a performance enablement strategy. You can enable performance by connecting what your people learn to ongoing, real-time and internal experiential learning opportunities in which they can explore new types of work.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

Effective R&D leaders must possess technical expertise but also lead teams of leaders, allocate resources and collaborate across functions to bring new products and services to market. Common strengths they bring to leadership include: Deep technical expertise: This is one of the key strengths of R&D professionals.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In many corporate settings, rising leaders work remotely — far from not only their physical offices but, more urgently, from their teams. These new leaders must hire team members through a series of video conferencing chats. Leadership has always required these behaviors. Management 101: Back to the basics.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Choices aren’t clear-cut and the future is unpredictable, thus leaders and employees need more than directives, targets and traditional performance reviews. Leaders who effectively implement a coaching approach are able to save time because they can offer their support and keep their finger on the pulse without becoming the situation “expert.”

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

These programs tend to focus solely on teaching managerial skills and competencies, but neglect to address the three critical mindsets required for success in a new leadership role. 1: The ‘self vs. team’ mindset Individual contributors operate with a “self” orientation. New leaders must pivot and adopt a “team mindset.”

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In her first few months as EY’s CLO, Sugrue presented her vision for learning at the company: to increase the alignment, effectiveness and brand of learning at EY. Sugrue’s team also added two open-ended questions to the survey and began using machine learning to identify what people like most and what they would change.

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