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CLO Investments Focus on Relevance and Technology

CLO Magazine

Investments in training and development continue to grow after notable declines in 2009. Budgets, which declined in 2008 and 2009 in reaction to the global financial crisis, have grown each year since. This year, more than half of CLOs also report higher budgets than last year.

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Motor City’s resourceful learning leader

CLO Magazine

The automotive industry collapsed, the state lost more than 800,000 jobs between 2000 and 2009, and median household incomes are still down more than 15 percent from before the recession. Ware was hired as chief learning officer for the City of Detroit in 2014. But the city is recovering — and Iris Ware is helping to make it happen.

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Survey: Promising Signs for Global Hiring Heading into 2014

CLO Magazine

10 Employers across the globe expect a cautious yet positive approach to hiring for the start of 2014, despite ongoing economic uncertainty and disruption. Brazilian employers forecast their weakest hiring climate since the survey began in the fourth quarter of 2009, but still expect favorable hiring. Milwaukee — Dec.

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DAN PONTEFRACT – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

Between 2008 and 2014, employee engagement at TELUS soared from 53% to 85%. Dan is also a renowned speaker and has been invited to deliver over 100 external keynotes and presentations since 2009, including a TEDx Talk. In 2014, his team became a 9-time winner of the prestigious ‘ATD BEST’ award.

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Dan Pontefract – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Between 2008 and 2014, employee engagement at TELUS soared from 53% to 85%. Dan is also a renowned speaker and has been invited to deliver over 100 external keynotes and presentations since 2009, including a TEDx Talk. In 2014, his team became a 9-time winner of the prestigious ‘ATD BEST’ award.

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

Charles Jennings, executive director of the Royal Military College at Duntroon, Australia, recalls that when serving as the CLO for Thomson Reuters, he instituted a budget for innovation. Instead, as Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao indicate in their 2014 book “Scaling Up Excellence,” the approach should be experimental at first.

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A learner and a teacher at heart

CLO Magazine

Sullivan spent about five years consulting for companies like Booz Allen and Vantage Partners before moving internally into leadership development at Raytheon in 2009. Butters knew she’d found her CLO. The post A learner and a teacher at heart appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media. What Lies Ahead.

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