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Building a Culture of Continuous Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

There is widespread agreement amongst senior executives, line managers and HR directors that ‘breakthrough performance’ is needed to meet immediate business goals. The study involved more than 35,000 employees at more than 40 organisations, and interviewed CLOs at 122 organisations. There were three clear findings, that: 1.

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Making Your L&D Department Meaningful & Relevant

Performance Learning Productivity

Many Learning & Development managers spend a lot of their time thinking about ways in which they can make their departments more effective and provide real value to the organisation. Ideally this board is chaired by the CEO or Director of the organisation but, if not, then the CFO, COO or HR Director.

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Accountability for Business Results

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Most L&D “flipping” is an attempt to ensure a better workforce development service to the organisation. The Global HR Director at Reuters and I developed this ‘C’ curve for L&D to help us make the initial changes. Some also “flip” between local and global accountability as well.

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70 years on and still relevant: The Sabre-Toothed Future

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Benjamin was described in a contemporary report about the publication by no less than Time Magazine as “the tousle-haired director of the College of Education of University of Colorado, onetime cowboy, fisherman, soldier, who can roll two cigarettes at once”. So Benjamin was a man of some skills that I aspire to. Education is timeless.

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

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Briefly, the CLC survey found the following: L&D IS SEEN AS IMPORTANT BY MOST MANAGERS Employee development (and learning) is seen as important by most line managers. This will only happen if they embrace and develop an entire new range of professional capabilities. Many, however, are either struggling or not coping at all.

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Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations

Performance Learning Productivity

Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations. The training is designed, developed and delivered with great care and attention. It rang bells, and still rings them.

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

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but will certainly need to leave behind processes and approaches that were developed for an earlier age – the steady-state industrial type of organisations that are breaking down or transmogrifying before our eyes. Like Owens, L&D needs to think and act strategically,and often needs to take difficult steps in order to achieve its ends.

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