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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

This emphasis on formal training is a barrier to learning and change. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture, trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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Fostering trust, psychological safety and growth: How to leverage learning science to create a strong workplace learning culture

CLO Magazine

Those working in the world of education know a great deal about how learning works and ways to create effective, efficient and inclusive learning environments (it’s called learning science). Learning is hard and requires time and effort in any context and the workplace is no exception.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

They need to take information from a wide variety of sources, not only from trainers and educators, and translate that information into knowledge and wisdom. Managers have control of their own learning, not corporate trainers, HR, or a CLO. Employees need agility when it comes to information.

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Creating learning experiences that don’t suck

CLO Magazine

How we as humans naturally learn in life should be applied to executive development and creating highly engaging learning environments. Like the long-seeded practices of traditional higher education, executive education is stuck in some of the same mud. Write those down. What made it so memorable?

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Learning 2014: Mobile and Social Opportunities

CLO Magazine

Learning leaders believe they have passed through a difficult period and that the improving economy has caused a change in business expectations. One CLO said, “I believe the country is on the right track and the worst of economic issues are behind us.” Another CLO said competencies are weighted for hiring and promotions.

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A Quest for Success

CLO Magazine

In our decades of executive education, we have never seen the same level of C-suite involvement and engagement,” said Tom Conine, president, ?TRI Those five days in residence would be the centerpiece of a larger 18-month program encompassing pre- and post-assessments and individual action-learning projects.

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Keeping Talent Development Current: A Moving Target

CLO Magazine

This is a key element in our goal of creating a learning organization. Albert Einstein is attributed with the quote: “Education is not the learning of facts, but training the mind to think.” Do we have our stakeholders adopt an action learning or action research approach? We have to be information savvy.

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