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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Diana Thomas

CLO Magazine

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. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? I have learned to do more through virtual, being more remote.

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How to Lead in a Virtual World

CLO Magazine

The number of employees working virtually grew by 61 percent from 2005 to 2009, and this percentage is estimated to grow to 69 percent by 2016 — meaning an estimated 4.9 million people will be working virtually. The following is a list of things to consider when working or leading virtually.

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The Future of the Corporate University

CLO Magazine

They became more widespread and prominent in the ’80s and ’90s and quickly became the “places to go” to learn in the business world. Daniel Gandarilla, vice president and CLO at Texas Health Resources University, said the corporate university is not dead — it’s being redefined. “Words matter.

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Training Must Swim to the Current to Survive

Living in Learning

For simplicity, I consider virtually everything else floating along or lingering uselessly by the edges as flotsam. The flow of work – or the work context as I prefer to call it, is where learning opportunities align with our workers in the 96% part of their world. Granted it was 2005, but man! sam - [flot-suh m] noun.

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The Learning Experience as a Mobile Endeavor

CLO Magazine

Because when I enrolled at Indiana University in 2005, the Internet ran the show. My classes were organized, registered and configured online, and assignments were often distributed in virtual environments. Nowadays, relying on an Internet feed on my clunky laptop to facilitate and implement learning would be considered “so 2005.”

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Power to the People: Deloitte’s Nick van Dam

CLO Magazine

Whereas many CLOs fortuitously find themselves in the learning and development world as their careers progress, Nick van Dam has been a player in the learning sphere in some capacity for as long as he can remember, beginning with his first job in 1985 as a learning consultant. Courses are made available via the Internet. DID YOU KNOW?

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Forget the Status Quo

CLO Magazine

While we still have companies and corporations such as the two mentioned above, many are becoming virtualized in this digital age, with online work teams handing off assignments to each other around the world. Gen Y moves as fast as or faster than the market and is eager to change the way business is done. Let’s talk music.

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