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The CLO’s Critical Role: Nine Areas for Action

CLO Magazine

This From the Vault article was published in December 2004 on CLOmedia.com. This strategy involves a significant use of outsourcing, offshoring, temporary contract employees and sometimes hiring fully competent individuals so that no additional training and development is needed. Invest only the minimum. But it is not that simple.

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Your character strengths

Jay Cross

You can achieve more success by fully leveraging your strengths than by shoring up your weaknesses. When speaking with Chris, he always seemed to shift the attention to me, making me feel not only that I had something to learn from him, but also that he had something to learn from me. You’ll be happier. Christoper Peterson.

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Back to the Future

The Learning Circuits

Back then, a lot of people paid attention and responded. In 2004, there were about 75,000 corporate training professionals in this country. The trends towards off-shoring, outsourcing, downsizing and capsizing indicate that by 2008 there will be about 45,000 of us left. That was the point of the Snake Oil post.