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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?

CLO Magazine

For example, a company might use a combination of sponsor and developmental mentoring to support key talent engagement as well as individuals’ personal career development. Today there are emerging software options coming to market specifically to support a variety of mentoring and coaching programs.

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The current top 5 highest-rated social learning solutions on CollectMyThoughts

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This is great for team training within departments of a company, for example. Here are the current top 5 highest-rated social learning systems on CollectMyThoughts , as rated by users: 5. Would you like to have your own private Facebook or Twitter network for your company? That is the main idea behind Yammer.

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Ridiculous research findings on informal learning

Jay Cross

An analyst reports that her company’s research finds that only 30% of U.S. companies spent money on informal learning tools or services last year. Of those, big companies spent $16,000 on average; little ones spent $5600. Informal learning is mushrooming as organizations implement social software.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Imagine a senior executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company already told him brainpower has become the engine of innovation.

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Bright Corporate Outlook for Employee Development Doesn’t Mean You Need a Bigger Budget

Mindflash

Or buy some of these books and create a library in your company. Tap into social software apps. Need informal learning software? There are vendors selling very good software. Rather than spend the money upfront, start off by using using free social software services like Yammer or Social Text or Wikispaces.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Your company will install an in-house social network. Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development. Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company had already told him that brainpower has become the engine of innovation. The only question is how soon.

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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

collaboration, by definition, implies a technology solution, However, there are many ways in which learning professionals can increase collaboration in organizations, from implementing enterprise social software or things as simple as wheeling a white board into the break room. Enterprise 2.0 So, although the term enterprise 2.0