CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Chief Learning Officer recently sat down with David DeFilippo, principal of DeFilippo Leadership Inc. and an executive coach at Harvard Business School. CLO: What was your first official job in learning and development? My first job out of college was as a high school teacher, coach and dorm parent.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In an era of remote working, organizations are scrambling to figure out three crucial things: How to retain employees from afar, how to foster leadership and development and how to demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. After all, a rising tide should lift all boats and a bird in the hand should be worth two in the bush.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The most effective coaching happens between a coachable employee or client and a trustworthy coach. Unfortunately, this resistance can happen before the coaching process has even begun. If an employee is asked, referred or even mandated to work with a coach, they may come to the coaching relationship already resistant.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Although executive coaching involves a paying client, the process is not transactional. Coaching is not a vending machine where you put money in and get a neatly packaged product out. Coaching is relational. Commitment to coaching takes motivation, resolve and investment. Commitment.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Creating significant challenges and headwinds for managers and supervisors in retaining critical talent and mitigating business impact with the countervailing forces of grief , burnout , productivity , disengagement , and worse, attrition across workforces. The call for leaders to be coaches is only increasing.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

How do you start writing an article about leadership and love? And yet here I sit attempting to explain that if you don’t love your people, you probably shouldn’t be in the business of leadership. I would’ve said something like, “Leadership isn’t about love. I would’ve said something like, “Leadership isn’t about love.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Each year, the Chief Learning Officer of the Year Award is presented to an individual learning executive who delivers the most exemplary development and guidance, is a strategic business partner and provides essential leadership to the organizational learning and development function. 20, when she was announced as the 2020 CLO of the Year.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In the workplace, fostering an environment where employees feel connected and included is vital for productivity, innovation and overall job satisfaction. As a case in point, one of our clients wanted to transition from a top-down “command-and-control” culture to a collaborative, servant-based leadership approach.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In addition to the development of technical skills to help companies adopt the latest technology, we need skills throughout organizations that can help people to adapt to change and maximize their growth—coaching skills. What exactly is coaching? What can you try? What resources or support do you need?”

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

By strengthening communications skills and building a “same language” framework for the workforce, these initiatives not only foster individual development, they enhance collaboration and productivity and contribute to cultural cohesion. The following scenario is based on an actual coaching engagement. Sameer’s Story.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

The truth is that the topic might not be new, but investment in leadership development continues to be critically important — and the need to spread the word persists. Organizational success is driven by strong leadership, and companies that invest in leadership training consistently appear on most-admired and best-of lists.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic transformed many CLOs into corporate sherpas, guiding employees as they moved to remote work and providing them with newly virtual content to ensure they had the skills and support to remain productive and engaged. From fashion designer to CLO. It is one of things that Verizon’s leadership team loves about her.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 14, 2024

At the time, most companies had extensive onboarding training for new sales representatives that included basic sales skills and product knowledge. We also learned product knowledge. Helping new salespeople learn their organization, sales process, tools and product knowledge is common. What is sales enablement?

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

You may or may not have the ability to invest in leadership development right now, yet your organization needs effective leaders to stay competitive in this season of volatility. Why have traditional leadership development programs failed? Develop leadership by doing leadership. Leadership is a verb.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Our most-watched webinars this year featured topics such as leadership development, coaching and organizational culture. Building a Culture of Trust Speaker: Kay-Marie Zani , Leadership Consultant, DDI Sponsored by: DDI 7. Why Leadership Development is Broken and How to Fix It Speakers: Jackie V Sahm , M.A.,

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CLO Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

The reason, we tell ourselves, is that we believe that technical expertise will, somehow, translate into managerial or leadership expertise. Becoming expert teams To do this, an intensive, interdisciplinary and experiential leadership development program is necessary. However, that is not always the case.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Leadership happens in the nuanced shifts that occur first in the leader’s mind. A substantial number of respondents to our study — 45 percent — said that providing appropriate coaching to ensure their team members succeed is what the best leaders do to demonstrate a growth mindset. Trying on new perspectives can then follow.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2019

Knowledge transfer and skill building happen in a variety of ways: formal education, self-directed learning, training, mentoring, executive coaching, job rotation, etc. However, I posit that executive coaching is still the best way to help leaders develop skills that are difficult to teach, measure and sometimes articulate — soft skills.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 8, 2018

We have a lot of first-time managers who need coaching,” said Rick Pereira, chief people officer. Instead of moving to Macedonia himself, Pereira implemented Butterfly.ai, an artificial intelligence coaching app that provides feedback to managers on their leadership skills. Now he’s one of our strongest leaders,” Pereira said.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As the talent market remains fiercely competitive, products and services become commoditized, and as more human tasks become automated, organizations recognize that talent is their most valued asset. A company seeking new product ideas invests in a program designed to teach its leaders skills around innovation.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

They are responsible for developing new products, technologies and processes and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and customer requirements. 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.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

However, research shows that the small number of women who have risen to top positions in business often possess leadership traits quite different from those associated with successful men. They also are scaling the corporate ladder in many corporations, though men still significantly outnumber women in leadership positions.

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Limestone Learning

MARCH 28, 2024

PT: The Relationship of the CLO to the CFO Influencing the CFO is paramount, particularly for the Chief Learning Officer (CLO), whose initiatives often face scrutiny during cost-cutting measures. Register today to learn: How onboarding, training, and coaching strategies can influence revenue goals.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 12, 2017

Add coaching to my already busy schedule? These are common responses from leaders when they’re asked — or told — to add coaching to their already overloaded plates. All over the world, leaders are using coaching to gain a competitive edge. But does coaching solve every problem one might encounter in the workplace?

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CLO Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

federal government, I worked on designing and implementing training, and coaching and mentoring programs to attract new employees. Career coaching Closely related to mentoring is coaching. I created a successful coaching program in the U.S. Another solid program is an emerging leadership training program.

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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. The map is pretty much useless if you can’t see where you’re going.”.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 12, 2023

These changes and many others are necessitating a new type of leader with an evolving set of leadership skills. Of course, this new type of leader must still be expert at timeless operational skills like having productive one-on-one conversations with their people, building trust, being excellent communicators, etc.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Over this past year, there has been no shortage of content published on the importance of leadership qualities such as resilience, empathy and agility. We are not saying this is a definitive list, nor that these capabilities can be developed overnight, but it may help stimulate your thinking as you look to refresh your leadership strategy.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Jacob Morgan recently ran a study in conjunction with LinkedIn that included more than 14,000 participants titled “ How Leaders Overestimate Their Own Skills and Mindsets ,” in which they examined how well leaders felt they were doing with respect to people, soft skills (such as coaching, empathy , recognition, etc.)

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Now, as artificial intelligence is transforming all sectors of the economy, companies are defining “human-centered skills” to include leadership, teamwork and emotional intelligence—skills that are becoming critical as more work is automated, augmented and decentralized. That’s a fictional wonderland, not reality.

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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. It might be soft skills, such as teamwork, collaboration, listening, patience, leadership or followership.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This article proposes a strategic, collaborative approach to learning and development founded on four years of business, education and psychology group dynamic research and subsequent validation to address the question: What is required to build an ethical, quality-focused, productive, successful and collaborative group of working people?

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

And when business results shift, such as a drop in sales of a key product line, the dashboard should highlight the need to focus on that item. It is time to reshape learning leadership demographics to reflect the diversity of the workforce. Coaching — scaled and evolved. Virtual reality, mixed media and beyond the goggles.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

This challenge may require chief learning officers and learning leaders to innovate and incorporate automation through voice recognition, simulation, and assessment to achieve repetition and reinforcement of the production environment workflows for customer-facing employees.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Douglas Riddle, global director of coaching services and assessment portfolio at the Center for Creative Leadership, discusses leadership philosophies and if there is such a thing as ‘unique’ leadership. How do you feel about all leadership philosophies being copies of other philosophies? Just a combination?

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They agreed that the future CLO should have experience in: strategic management, general management, knowledge management, leadership skills, and learning methods and concepts. Were these future CLOs able to see these projects in a larger context and over a longer term? Leadership Skills. Strategic Management.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 4, 2020

Meeting these objectives often require resources both internally and externally — budget, learning content, time, personnel and leadership buy-in are also key components. We have seen tremendous success with online training that is truly interactive — live training with simulations, breakout rooms, polling and real-time coaching.

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