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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

Like many bosses, Jon Kaplan thought he was a good leader. April 2019 Profile: Discover Financial’s Jon Kaplan. Jon Kaplan was, until May of this year, vice president of training and development for Discover Financial Services. Mike: We should also mention Liz Loutfi who also is one of our editorial team who works on CLO.

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Putting People First

CLO Magazine

When it comes to learning, Jon Kaplan truly understands the importance of emotional engagement. Kaplan finally confessed his secret to a classmate and got the remedial help he needed, but by then he had become “incredibly ashamed” and his academic performance suffered through grade school. You’re more engaged; it’s more interesting.”.

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Leave Learning to Employees, sort of

Jay Cross

CLO magazine November 2015. This article describes the CLO of Kaplan as he adapts to a world where employees can route around learning to find their own content. Learner-created content presents a challenge to CLOs: they want to control it. Learner-created content is out of control by definition.

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Learning and Development in the Remote Workplace

CLO Magazine

First, it provides individual learners the flexibility to self-pace — in terms of when they engage in a learning event as well as how quickly they choose to consume content. No delivery technology will account for poor content. Matt Flynn is executive director for instructional strategies at Kaplan U.S.

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Top Chief Learning Officer Conferences of 2019

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John, Human Capital Media; Jon Kaplan, Discover Financial Services, Mike Prokopeak, Chief Learning Officer Magazine; Nicole Hajdrowski, US Foods, and Skip Marshall, DXC Technologies. If you are looking for specific workshops, this conference offers more than 300 on 12 different content tracks. CLO Exchange.

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Learning In Practice Awards 2012

CLO Magazine

CLO of the Year. Crull's outstanding work in developing learning and development strategies has made her the 2012 CLO of the Year. Excellence in Content: Gold: Enspire Learning. Kaplan uses Carnegie Speech to assess and train English learners' speaking skills. These are their stories. Pat Crull, Time Warner Cable.

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Can You Teach Diversity and Inclusion?

CLO Magazine

Or, as Giovanna Ramazzina, head of LPD — leadership and professional development — for international education-company Kaplan said, teaching diversity and inclusion requires a growth mindset rather than a quick mindset approach. “It Kaplan teaches inclusive and collaborative decision-making techniques using a variety of strategies.