Performance Learning Productivity

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CLO Maths–Part I

Performance Learning Productivity

Last month I took part in the iVentiv Executive Knowledge Exchange event in New York. The two days of roundtable discussion were focused on ‘learning futures’. There were plenty of good conversations, some case studies, and lots of idea sharing and thoughts around innovation and the future of learning in organisations.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

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Reuters Institute of Technolgy - an example of CLO expectations When I was CLO at Reuters my learning and development colleague Andrew MacGovern developed the Reuters Institute of Technology which was a fully-featured set of online resources and tools to support our 5,000 or so technical and operations staff.

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Accountability for Business Results

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ALIGNING L&D WITH ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY AUTONOMY vs STRATIGIC ALIGNMENT I spent most of my 8 years as CLO at Reuters involved in L&D transformation in one way or another. Focus on these will result in greater likelihood in L&D being able to deliver a service that brings value to the entire organisation.

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the L&D profession

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The findings make salutary reading for any CLO, learning leader or L&D professional. Although Deiser and Newton were addressing social media literacy for senior leaders, their advice is highly relevant for all learning professionals, whether at CLO level or learning practitioner.

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EVER TRIED TO HIT A MOVING TARGET AT TWENTY PACES WITH A COLT 45?

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The CLO focus in this case – i.e. catch the balls as they’re thrown over the fence and run with them - is understandable but it’s certainly neither an optimal nor sustainable strategy. There was a chasm between the current focus (tactical) mindset of L&D and the future focus (strategic) mindset required by senior business leaders.

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21st Century L&D Skills

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If this change is to be achieved then the CLO and senior learning managers, as well as every learning professional working with them, need to adopt an open, communicative and experimental mindset. The ability to use these tools will continually need updating and support.” This requires a change in mindset.