CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2006, he was awarded CLO of the Year. CLO: What was your official first job in learning and development? CLO: What lessons did you learn in 2020 that you plan on taking with you into 2021? We’re big believers these days in [being] agile and getting in and getting [it] 80 percent right, and then learning.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

CLO: How did you become interested in learning and development? CLO: What lesson(s) did you learn in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021? While there may be incredible change — and internal and external stressors and pressure — one can still bring stability by structure. Little did I know, there were no mountains in Mt.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

She has more than 29 years in the learning and talent development industries, and in 2016, she was awarded CLO of the Year. CLO: What was your first official job in learning and development? CLO: What lessons did you learn in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021? CLO: How do you enjoy spending your time outside of work?

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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. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? CLO: How do you enjoy spending your time outside of work?

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

The Air New Zealand CLO was experiencing an ultra-rare moment for 2020, disconnected from the virtual world during the Learning in Practice Awards ceremony on Oct. 20, when she was announced as the 2020 CLO of the Year. In the midst of the global pandemic, Savion says she feels incredibly blessed to earn the title of CLO of the Year.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 31, 2024

Even as technology continues to make our lives easier or better, those same technologies will quickly change the world as we know it. There are social, environmental, political and cultural changes. Volatility is the rate and recurrence of change. When technology is changing rapidly and often, it causes a volatile situation.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I attended the CLO Symposium with my ITA colleagues Jay Cross and Jane Hart. It was an interesting event, with a theme of “ Game-Changing Learning: Development for the New Normal “, held at a classy venue on the beach, and was well-organized. (You You can see Jay’s writeup here.) Well, but of course !

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2018

There’s no playbook for becoming a CLO, and if there’s one simple fact that shines through from the hundreds of formal interviews and countless more conversations I’ve had with learning leaders, that’s it. Changing times call for reinvention. There is no status quo for the CLO. That’s changing.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 11, 2018

Agility is the emerging trend for companies in thinking about how they structure teams to accomplish work. Agile methodology began with software development, but, with its focus on adapting to change rather than following a process, it has become relevant in other areas as well. In other words, they are not agile.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 18, 2020

Awareness starts with recognizing the discomfort that comes with tackling a problem and honestly assessing how things need to change. Embracing a learning mindset allows for comfort with failure, flexibility with change, and surfacing new, innovative ideas quickly and effectively. The Coca-Cola Co.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Our employees already live in a world of increased change and shifting roles and business models. Every time we add an element, an organizational change moment is triggered in our learning ecosystems. Ironically, one of the most powerful things a CLO can do is to bravely and authentically say, “stop.”

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

The New Year often brings with it resolutions — code for habits you are trying to change. The problem is, when everything else is changing around you, there’s a good chance that these old habits no longer apply. We often see this in companies that have a long track record of success in static or slow-changing markets.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The need for agile, rounded leaders remains high in our ever-changing business environment, and executive education and leadership development continue to be an important area of investment: 44 percent plan to increase investment and 40 percent plan to keep it the same (Figure 3). So, where will that budget be directed?

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To succeed, they must lead with agility, compassion and careful commitment to flourishing talent through learning and development. The post The workforce has changed, and so have leaders appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media. Today’s leaders face a unique playing field.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

It’s an understatement to say that organizational change creates stress for everyone involved — we’ve all heard the dismal statistic about how 70 percent of change initiatives fail. So how do you take the reality of change and make it more likely to be successful — and bearable? Common questions include, “What is the change?

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CLO Magazine

MAY 21, 2020

The new decade promises a whole new approach for the speed of change. Organizations are recognizing the need to exist in a state of constant readiness to respond to new information about changing customer requirements, stakeholder expectations, regulation and competition. What’s New in Change Management? That time has passed.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The only constant today is change. Change does not happen overnight. It requires an understanding of the reason for the change along with clear communication and transparency of the execution of that strategy. It begins with the openness to embrace change as a good thing. We can face resistance to change quite often.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Many forces, including technology and digitization, global competition, communication, social media innovations and expectations of new workforce members, are causing incremental changes. Learning is fundamental to agility, innovation and responsiveness. Becoming a learning enterprise is a culture-change journey.

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Degreed

APRIL 10, 2020

Leading During Change | April 14, 2020 (Virtual). Join us for a town hall on current market challenges through the eyes of Degreed’s CEO, Chris McCarthy and CLO, Kelly Palmer. Connect with people outside your typical circles to share stories and learn how others are dealing with the recent changes in the way we work.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Coupled with a strong culture for continuous learning, regular development creates a very fluid and agile talent pipeline. These changes led to an overall increase in engagement in training and employee retention, ultimately strengthening their internal talent pipeline. Many companies are starting to think critically about development.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A number of years ago, I co-wrote a chapter with Eileen Clegg called The Agility Factor , that appeared in Marcia Conner & James Clawson’s excellent collection of organizational culture articles in the book Creating a Learning Culture. are known as extremophiles. I’m always amazed (and, mostly, pleased) with what I find.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

Organizations aim to stay agile while upskilling and reskilling the critical talent needed to take advantage of change. This puts employees at a disadvantage in building an agile, adaptive culture. All of this means they may be less adaptive and less open to learning and responding to change positively.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Enlightened CLOs will grasp the opportunities inherent in this time of change to enable true employee readiness in the future. Readiness — the state of being fully prepared — is a new requirement for all organizations in this rapidly changing economy. 5 Capabilities of an Enlightened CLO.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It will involve understanding how people learn best and how organizations can enhance their employees’ learning agility to equip them with the skills needed to become lifelong learners and be more adaptable. This is due to the differing levels of cognitive and agile learning (learning to learn) capabilities.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2020

If you weren’t able to be there, I’d like to share 10 practices I gleaned from chief learning officers and thought leaders at the conference for you and your team to consider as you plan for 2020 and the continuing onslaught of change. Use the agile process to develop learning assets. Change is difficult and can be nerve wracking.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2022

The community has proven once again this past year that despite changes and unforeseen challenges, especially in a time of great uncertainty, agility and perseverance are at the cornerstone of what we do. The post BetterWork Media Group celebrates one year of business appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Let go of old learning approaches and embrace the latest in agile software. If I appear to be speaking a foreign language, then the hottest thing in agile software — and now learning content — hasn’t hit your radar yet. Responding to change over following a plan. How are your scrums and sprints coming?

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It creates value through learning in the flow of work, agile development, environmental enablement, and access to information. Learning and development at work can lead to holistic change that affects the whole person—not just the person in context of work. Best of all, it empowers individuals to influence their own work and learning.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

As automation becomes a steadfast companion and hybrid work models redefine our conception of the workplace, understanding and adapting to these changes is not just an option, but a necessity. The results of McKinsey’s American Opportunity Survey reflect “sweeping changes in the U.S.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2016

I was recently immersed in the world of Agile/Scrum during the development process for an online course. Scrum is basically an agile framework to help complete complex projects. In many ways Agile/Scrum is a study in the learning process itself. The deployment of the knowhow is an interesting case study in learning vs teaching.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

Disbelief and denial, my initial reactions, aren’t the ideal response to change. Agility and adaptability are. It’s not much different when it comes to organizations and change. Small-scale interventions and programs to hack the learning agenda, inject change and put leaders through experiences that force them to adapt can help.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

If you’re a team leader at any level, you’ve probably observed that some of your team members aren’t excited about constant change. The only humans we’ve seen get excited about change are babies with wet diapers. Yet, in order for our organizations to be innovative and competitive, employees must thrive during times of change.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2013

Leaders who can thrive in any business environment share one important trait: agility. As disparate as the two business environments are, there’s a common denominator — something a leader who can thrive anywhere would need to move forward in either scenario — learning agility. Mental agility. People agility.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As the team confronts challenges and shifting business demands, they must become agile and adaptive learners. By making reflection an ongoing practice, teams improve their ability to respond to change with increased agility and effectiveness. Promote reflection and collective learning. Foster a culture of creativity and joy.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Along with my Internet Time Alliance colleagues Jane Hart & Clark Quinn and several hundred chief learning officers, I attended the Fall CLO Symposium this week. Our theme was “Game-Changing Learning: Development for the New Normal.” It’s intended to underpin the dialog between CLO and executive management.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Likewise, once leaders focus their attention on increasing psychological safety in small ways, the accumulation of those small behaviors across teams can lead to transformational changes at the organizational level. A second potential source of inspiration is the Agile method of creating Scrum teams.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Small, but mighty and agile. Agility wasn’t just vital at an organizational level, but at the individual level as well. Especially with the impact of the pandemic, it was apparent that the growth of the company relied on its workforce being able to stay agile, even as the needs of its industry and clients were changing.

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