CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This lack of knowledge has long been a problem for all kinds of businesses. Businesses have vastly different needs during the pandemic. In a survey of 113 L&D leaders, “71 percent said that more than 40 percent of their workforce has needed new skills due to changes to work brought on by COVID-19,” Gartner reports.

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Watershed

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In September 2016, Watershed worked with our partners at LEO to survey hundreds of L&D professionals across the globe about learning measurement within their organizations. We repeated that survey at the close of 2017, and it raised some warning signs for the future of L&D. Here's a recap of the results. ( Don’t panic.

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Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

These were the findings of Brandon Hall Group’s 2015 State of Leadership Development Study. Although organizations are aware about the importance of growing internal talent to meet business needs, and make leadership development a priority, 36% of them say their leadership development practices are still below average or poor.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2017

Increasing demand for executive-level education programs to fill knowledge gaps and develop soft skills has inspired newer online and specialized programs, giving executives greater flexibility to build global learning into their busy schedules. At the high end, Indiana University Kelley School of Business offers an online MBA.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2016

Last year, companies spent almost $31 billion on leadership development programs according to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends report. Despite so much capital being invested into leadership, programs were dominated by superficial, ineffective solutions.

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KnowledgeCity

MAY 24, 2018

Did you know that young adults that have had mentoring are 130 percent more likely to hold leadership positions? The Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends 2016 showed that 89 percent of executives who took the survey believed the need to strengthen, reengineer, and improve organizational leadership was a priority.

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Mindflash

MAY 23, 2016

Employee engagement and what to do about it is a critical global business initiative in 2016. Employee engagement is a top concern for 2016 with 78% of organizational leaders rating it as one of their top concerns. Business Leaders. Global Human Capital Trends 2016. Majority of U.S. January 2015. link]. .

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KnowledgeAnywhere

JUNE 7, 2023

In the modern business landscape, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have become crucial elements for a successful, respectful, and innovative work environment. These principles not only foster a fair, nurturing atmosphere but also drive creativity, collaboration, and productivity, resulting in increased business success.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Business Partnership Award is for learning departments that have partnered in a progressive way with business partners or external organizational divisions and functions such as the sales and marketing department or external customer groups to develop and deliver a targeted employee development program that supports the partner’s goals.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 20, 2018

Developing the next generation of leaders is the top priority for a majority of organizations, according to a recent survey of more than 28,000 business leaders conducted by The Conference Board. This survey was conducted from June to July 2017. These numbers are nearly identical to spending levels in 2016.

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ProProfs

MAY 4, 2023

This is according to the 2021 Gallup survey for employee engagement , which also revealed that as many as 14% of the employees actually go out of their way to hurt their organization. There are several benefits of employee engagement , all leading to better business outcomes. Did you know that almost two-thirds of U.S.

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OpenSesame

OCTOBER 7, 2016

In 2016, the report surveyed 1,251 recruiters from 547 companies and recorded the skills that respondents said were “most important” in various industries. So what are the five most sought after skills for the industries surveyed? Communication Skills: “ Business Communication Fundamentals ” - LearnSmart.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Sedgwick, the largest insurance claims management company in the world, has developed a program to build the future bench strength of its property claims leadership — generationNext Management. The goal was to fast-track an elite education in claims adjusting by synthesizing leadership’s knowledge into an engaging, hands-on program.

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Infopro Learning

AUGUST 9, 2016

In our current 2016 jargon, this also is called striving for a “culture of employee engagement.” At the same time, research shows that companies that disregard diversity as a vital component of their business strategy have a higher percentage of disengaged workers. We all want to work in a great place. Not really.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2017

This cultural breakdown led Schramm to work with the executive team on a culture change project that introduced soft skills training on leadership, communication, collaboration and problem-solving along with the financial and operational changes he’d been brought in to implement. It engaged them to be change agents for the company.”.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Business Leaders don’t really Value People. In November 2016 The Korn Ferry Institute published their grim findings of a global study: In August and September, 2016, Korn Ferry interviewed 800 business leaders in multimillion-dollar global organizations on their views on the value of people in the future of work.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In 2010 the company brought in Hikmet Ersek as the new CEO; he implemented a 2020 plan to shift the brand from a transactional business to a more customer-centric approach, adding new electronic and mobile channels, and empowering employees to go the extra mile for customers. But they all continue to show up.”.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 4, 2023

Seeking new ways to engage learners: By 2016, SAP’s global sales enablement team had built a world-class, increasingly digitized training portfolio — one designed to meet the learning needs of thousands of sales executives located in 160+ countries around the world. Demand Generation” or “Business Acumen”) using SAP technology.

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CrossKnowledge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Digitization is seriously challenging today’s business world and the way we live, work and relate to one another. The pace of technological change is accelerating and disrupts our current business models (although creating new inspiring ones). Business professionals recognize that digital technology is reshaping the way people work.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 23, 2017

Millennials are assuming significant leadership roles, sometimes at a pace faster than they and the organizations they serve would otherwise embrace. How leaders are best developed was a focus of leadership development research conducted by Development Dimensions International and The Conference Board’s “Global Leadership Forecast 2014/2015.”

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2018

The face of leadership is starting to shift. As younger employees move into more powerful positions, it’s important to consider how their leadership styles compare with those who came before them. How can we best help them grow as business leaders? For ParkBench.com, that means mixing the business with the personal.

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Enterprise Study

JULY 25, 2018

A new survey has found that the UK’s top performing businesses have one thing in common: prioritising employee learning and development. The survey said that 94% of the businesses in the best performer category identified learning and development in the workplace as a critical component in success of the business overall.

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Degreed

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Every executive knows that skills can make or break their business. Availability of key skills is a perennial top threat in PwC’s Annual Global CEO Survey. From 2016 to 2019, employee adoption of digital learning climbed steadily to 96% and the average number of learning platform logins per employee tripled.

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KnowledgeCity

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A 2018 study indicates that the #1 challenge that HR and business professionals face in workplace learning is getting employees to make more time for training. In a 2016 Deloitte survey , 90 percent of respondents said soft skills were a “critical priority.” Digital and Mobile Learning (M-learning). Develop Future Leaders.

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Leo Learning

JULY 9, 2019

We are a people business, and as such, our value rests in our people. We set out to assemble a group that has the capability in workplace learning to look at business issues and provide a solution to those issues, instead of just selling a platform or some services. 2016 Opening the US LEO office in Atlanta.

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Degreed

JUNE 22, 2021

If you hadn’t thought about it previously, an upskilling strategy probably arrived front and center as a critical business need. Clicking into search results reveals predictions of what some of these skills might be: Burning Glass Technologies lists 14 skills in three categories: digital building blocks, business enablers, and human skills.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 3, 2017

Companies still have a ways to go to eliminate the leadership gender gap. And increasingly they’re working on it by developing women for leadership and stamping out inherently biased talent management practices. Still, women held only 4 percent of CEO positions on the 2016 Forbes 500 list of top U.S. percent per year versus.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Of the 100,000 people waiting to receive a kidney in 2016, I was one of the privileged 19,000 to get one. But in the imperfect business of matching organs, other factors need consideration, too. Best-selling leadership author Michael Watkins suggests that culture is the organization’s immune system. A 2018 survey of 1,509 U.S.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Those needs have been intensifying as business changes come at an exponential speed. 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. Not every issue has a fast solution.

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Training Industry

AUGUST 30, 2017

From 1972 to 2016, women’s share of professional jobs increased from 44 percent to 57 percent, and their share of managerial jobs grew from 20 percent to 39.1 Women are still underrepresented in professions like engineering and in senior management and leadership positions in government and business.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2017

In the 2016 CLO Learning Investments Survey, published this past October, more than 120 CLOs described their intentions to expand learning technology and services use and detailed how their spending will change between 2016 and 2017. About the same percentage of CLOs report their budgets were the same or growing in 2016.

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ej4 eLearning

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And you’re not alone: Roughly 31% of organizations have yet to define the essential leadership competencies required for their leaders in order for them to achieve their business goals, according to a 2016 study by the Brandon Hall Group. That’s our tagline: “People Grow Business. Business Acumen. We Grow People.”

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CLO Magazine

MAY 21, 2019

According to The Conference Board’s “The Business Value of Leadership Development” report, “One of the most influential internal engines to drive change is a leadership development program that sets out to nurture management talent that is entrepreneurial, enterprisewide and globally recruited.”. Impact Shortfall.

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Coreaxis

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And now because of pandemic restrictions and the evolution of the hybrid workplace, remote onboarding is becoming a part of the new tradition in business and learning. But it’s important to note that the 20% rate is taken from data collected in 2016. It’s difficult to make assumptions about why turnover rates may be so high.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

What we hear most frequently in survey after survey and in conversations with leaders across the country is your desire for research and case studies on how companies and individuals are tackling their organization’s thorniest problems. In today’s business environment, there are no best practices. There’s a reason we do that.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 6, 2017

The Willis Towers Watson 2016 “Global Workforce” and “Global Talent Management and Rewards” studies reported that 47 percent of employees believe leaders have a sincere interest in employee well-being. “The Trust is central to leadership at Raymond Handling Concepts Corp., Tags: leadership , senior leaders , Stephen M.

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GoConqr

AUGUST 25, 2016

But before looking further into it, let’s first take a look at what a poor employee retention rate actually means for businesses. According to business expert Josh Bersin, getting a new employee to reach the same level of productivity as an existing staff member can take as long as two years. So how does all that look in numbers?

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