CLO Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

That core team is practicing leadership. Now, imagine what these emerging leaders could be if they also received mentoring, coaching and formal development on core leadership skills. This core team works with communities on an individualized basis, customizing their level of engagement to help that community and its leaders thrive.

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Communities of Practice Community Mentoring Leadership 41

CLO Magazine

MAY 1, 2023

How the discomfort of learning helps women advance For women to develop the skills and attitudes necessary for advancement in their careers, they need a willingness to let go of preconceived notions and embrace the discomfort that comes with adopting new strategies and behaviors. Turning discomfort into advancement is an on-going team effort.

Diversity Training 78

Diversity Training Mentoring Player Learning 78

CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How can we empower our leaders to create lasting change on their teams and throughout the organization? Setting team norms for calling out bias: A framework for change In a video from The Way We Work, a TED Series , speakers Trier Bryant and Kim Scott introduce a framework for identifying biased language and behaviours at the team level.

Diversity Training 84

Diversity Training Behavior Learning Discussion 84

CLO Magazine

JUNE 24, 2020

When it comes to advancing organizational diversity and inclusion, too often leaders rely on the latest off-the-shelf training program or policy, but these initiatives do little to change employee behavior. Encouraging employees to value each other’s differences and collaborate effectively requires changes in their behavior.

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Diversity Training Behavior CLO Mentoring 110

CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In many corporate settings, rising leaders work remotely — far from not only their physical offices but, more urgently, from their teams. These new leaders must hire team members through a series of video conferencing chats. Leadership has always required these behaviors. Role-model best practices and behaviors for the team.

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Develop Leadership Coaching Network 114

CLO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

The missing link — Level 3: Behavior, in The Kirkpatrick Model — is where the value of training is created so the desired results are realized. During our scoping conversation with business leaders, we identify the business outcomes for Level 4 measurements and then immediately consider the Level 3 skills and behavior changes needed.”.

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Analytics Kirkpatrick Training Train 106

CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Ekpedeme “Pamay” Bassey, CLO of The Kraft Heinz Co., Now, after coming on board as CLO for Kraft Heinz in Chicago last December, Bassey is reimagining the company’s approach to corporate learning. One of Bassey’s areas of focus as the company’s CLO is developing the framework for new academies in Ownerversity.

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CLO Corporate Learning Blended Learning Diversity Training 60

CLO Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

Effective R&D leaders must possess technical expertise but also lead teams of leaders, allocate resources and collaborate across functions to bring new products and services to market. When R&D professionals are promoted to front-line team management roles, these strengths often continue to contribute to their effectiveness.

Develop 78

Develop Leadership Diversity Training Case Study 78

CLO Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

Self-management is your ability to use awareness of your emotions to stay flexible and positively direct your behavior. By building trust and displaying empathy with their team members, trusted servant leaders are able to bring out the best performance of their people, which in turn leads to the achievement of organizational goals.

Leadership 79

Leadership Trust Behavior Performance Support 79

CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

We are looking closely at the experiences of more than 780 female participants, and their male and female mentors and managers, to glean a treasure trove of information around successful strategies when work is no longer “live and in-person.” One of our program managers observed it as a newfound “level of acceptance, rather than resistance.”

Skills 82

Skills Mentoring Attitudes CLO 82

CLO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Consistently demonstrating new behaviors requires effort, and keeping the momentum is often challenging once the formal learning events are over. Mentoring: Communities can also provide opportunities for mentoring and coaching. But what if there was a way to encourage collaborative learning more organically?

Community 79

Community Diversity Training Online Forum 79

CLO Magazine

APRIL 14, 2024

For example, companies that sell transactional low-investment items or industries that have a high attrition rate for their sales team. When I joined a sales training team in 2012, digital training resources and virtual training were finally gaining some good traction. Ensuring the sales team has the knowledge they need is critical.

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Sales Case Study Coaching Portal 79

CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Organizations need great leaders who can identify emerging challenges, inspire their team and turn strategy into effective action. Subsequently, many people try to solve health, business, law and other nontechnology and non-psychology related problems with technology and psychological behavior tools. The right placement is the key.

Performance Support 67

Performance Support Teams Performance Leadership 67

CLO Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

Think of book clubs, guided self-learning programs, mentoring and job shadowing. Given that the goal of any workplace learning program is to improve on-the-job behavior and performance, non-formal learning is a natural fit to help talent management and employees meet their workplace goals. How can we measure non-formal learning?

Blended Learning 116

Blended Learning Learning Objects Forum Behavior 116

CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

We are finding new meaning in learning in the flow of work and promoting organizational behaviors that ingrain, sustain and communicate insights. The way adults learn to develop new skills and behaviors is not technology-dependent. L&D professionals are taking off their teacher hats in favor of their facilitator ones.

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Sun Bloom Toys Metrics 41

CLO Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

One thing we learned was that front-line managers are critical to the success of the team and, unfortunately, most of them were not up to the task. The conventional wisdom early in the pandemic revolved around managers – how much their role changed, and the new skills they needed to be able to manage remote teams.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Successful leaders set high expectations for their team members and challenge them to tackle lofty goals, much like effective teachers and coaches do. Leaders can do much harm if they set expectations in a way that frustrates team members or even induces unethical behavior as individuals scramble to meet overly ambitious targets.

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Coaching Simulations Performance Support Mentoring 98

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Since the executive team has ongoing access to the leadership development office, the aim of the program is to promote leadership skills of upper-middle management. These executives make regular appearances in our program and provide guest lectures, participate on panels, serve as mentors and speak at graduation.

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Case Study Study Program Design 99

CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

As workforces continue to grow more diverse, human resources and learning and development teams have embraced language training programs, such as Business English and ESL, for multicultural employees. The difficulty of integrating across multicultural teams in the face of negative cultural stereotypes. Sameer’s Story.

Coaching 98

Coaching Business Diversity Training Leadership 98

CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

As we fostered their development, encouraged them to interact with mentors and networks and involved their managers, we pinpointed three emerging strategies that earmarked success in these disruptive times: Letting go of what was. Leading a team via remote platforms is a whole new ballgame and requires new skill sets. Thank you all.

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Lesson Diversity Training Mentoring Network 74

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

The SprintRey leadership team. Once the team grew to around 40 or 50 people, he realized he needed extra help. “A A good mentor of mine once said, ‘If you’re not evolving, you’re devolving.’ If SprintRay did not start addressing culture now, it would only grow bad habits or behaviors that would take too long to fix.

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Culture Companies Strategy Management 79

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2021

As a result, they have become more reflective about their careers, more open to feedback from peers and mentors, and more receptive to adopting new behaviors that put them on track to not just get by, but to get ahead. Now I understand the importance of working in sync with others. Now that’s a powerful antidote to gloom and doom!

Diversity Training 92

Diversity Training Director CLO Press 92

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

Managers will no longer lead sales reps that just sell its technical products, they will now be required to lead cross-functional project teams to sell expansive service contracts that include its products as component parts. 6: The need to hire new team members is growing fast, but the labor market is very tight.

Sexual Harassment Training 112

Sexual Harassment Training Harassment Training Diversity Training Blended Learning 112

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

She was forced to abandon behaviors that once assured her success but no longer served her as well as demonstrate resilience and vulnerability well beyond what she ever considered necessary as job requirements. I transitioned from working independently to leading a team and being responsible for the work of others.

Leadership 107

Leadership Guide Coaching Mentoring 107

Degreed

MARCH 10, 2022

For a performance enablement strategy to really fly high, managers need to play a pivotal role, according to Degreed CLO Kelly Palmer. When managers are evaluated on leadership skills, however, they’re more likely to be flexible about sharing talent with other teams. Maybe someone on your team wants to be trained or mentored.

Performance Support 52

Performance Support Performance Management Help 52

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2020

They provide opportunities to interact with others outside the team and to showcase critical skills to senior management. Managers with an eye for advancing the talented women on their teams combat this reluctance by encouraging them to be front and center at presentations with senior management. Teams become more motivated.

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Liability Diversity Training CLO Site 97

CLO Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Committees, working groups, teams, task forces — these are all staples of organizational planning and productivity to tackle everything from daily operations, to implementing new initiatives, to long-term strategy. More senior members of the group can also be tapped for this mentoring mindset. But what does this mean?

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Develop CLO Performance Support Activities 77

CLO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

The LPP project manager gathers the stakeholders together to state the problem, identify expectations which tie to the strategic goals, define critical behaviors and supports for the training, and determine what data will show success. If you have a culture where coaching and mentoring are standard practice, engage that system.

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Change Management Learning Objects Performance Support 113

CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Chief learning officers and their teams should set the standard for the external coaches their organizations hire. CLOs can bring rigor to the selection process and educate leaders on how to get the most out of their coaching investment. Rigor rooted in behavioral science. Leadership benchmarks. Ability to make it stick.

Coaching 83

Coaching Leadership Behavior Performance Support 83

CLO Magazine

MAY 7, 2019

That morning, I was chatting with Annie McKee, director of the University of Pennsylvania CLO program. Women are often less likely than their male colleagues to understand the importance of mentoring relationships, especially early on in their careers. A few years ago, I was the keynote speaker at a women’s diversity conference.

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Mentoring Leadership Metrics CLO 60

CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some organizations also require employees to take unconscious bias training and learn how to interview candidates to remove barriers when recruiting people to their teams. This could be as easy as sending ERG leads to industry conferences and leadership programs or pairing them with executive mentors.

Integrate 95

Integrate Diversity Training Leadership Compliance Training 95

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2023

Trust in the workplace isn’t the only foundational part of a people team’s success. A successful team also needs psychological safety. Good training creates a space where learners can take risks, ask questions and share ideas, and prompts them to take these new concepts and new behaviors and use them in their job.

Skills 41

Skills Strategy Develop Trust 41

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2020

After more than 25 years in the learning profession, from new-hire orientation programs to senior team development at Fortune 100 companies, I have captured a lot from observing so many learning programs and initiatives. Experiential methodologies also are excellent at catching leadership styles and behaviors in action.

Learning Objects 80

Learning Objects Create Diversity Training Ratio 80

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2019

In the average company, up to 80 percent of employees’ days are spent working collaboratively, and yet only 14 percent of leaders are satisfied with their ability to collaborate and make decisions as teams. Let’s face it: Leading a team has never been harder. Sounds like an opportunity for L&D. Adrian Gostick.

Mentoring 65

Mentoring Learning CLO Survey 65

CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

These steps include creating a system that holds leaders accountable for positive norms, implementing training that focuses on positive behaviors and developing processes that ensure open communication. Notice that these particular items all focus on the way bad behavior is handled. Accountability.

Sexual Harassment Training 64

Sexual Harassment Training Harassment Training Confidentiality Behavior 64

CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

He’s now bringing that balance of human and business development to the team at Sirtex. Prism is a personality tool that maps three elements of employees’ behavior: how they prefer to behave, the patterns of behavior they usually follow and the extent to which they are able to modify that behavior to achieve key objectives.

Diversity Training 78

Diversity Training Leadership Culture Behavior 78

CLO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s an extreme example of an executive being held accountable for their behavior, but it also signals a growing trend in corporate leadership. Over the past two years, dozens of CEOs have quit or been fired due to embarrassing behavior, workplace affairs or political comments that 10 years ago would likely have gone unnoticed.

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Diversity Training Sexual Harassment Training Culture Performance Support 101