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Know how your firm makes money

CLO Magazine

I’ll never forget when, back in 2007, I had a meet and greet with the chief financial officer of my then firm as part of my first three months on the job while I was conducting my current state assessment. We had finished the formalities of our career and personal backgrounds and started to move into the business phase of our discussion.

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HR Staffs, Budgets Saw Modest Rebound in 2012

CLO Magazine

Human resource staff ratios appear to have stabilized at slightly higher levels than those observed from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s. For 10 straight years, the median ratio of HR staff to total headcount has been either 1 or 1.1 The median ratio bounced between 0.9 and 1 HR staff per 100 employees from 1996 to 2004.

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Promote Better Alignment for Better Impact

CLO Magazine

Every other month, IDC surveys Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Business Intelligence Board (BIB) on a variety of topics to gauge the issues, opportunities and attitudes that are important to senior learning executives. Like the wider enterprise, learning organizations that focus on outcomes drive business value.

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Get Your Red Hot Skills Functionality

eLearning 24-7

Thus, I am happy if you used skills tapped to content in your system back in 2007. Nobody has yet tapped into a built-in sim capability that is for business skills or a way to get a better validation tied to the self-assessment, but there are systems that have a sim to develop skills – technical wise. Was it hardcover?

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Stats on Workplace Learning

Marcia Conner

With the popularity of my stats to make the case for social tools in business , post I realized others may also appreciate information on where to find data about learning at work. On average, employees clocked 31 hours of training in 2011, which is about one hour less than 2010 and six fewer hours than a peak of 37 hours in 2007.

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

It’s an intriguing read, with several interesting case studies from organisations that are using social media to advance their business goals. How to Create Color Schemes in PowerPoint to Match Your Brand , October 26, 2010 A favorite feature added to PowerPoint 2007 is the design theme. Sumeet Moghe, 2009. Figure 1 1.

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Workplace Productivity

Tony Karrer

Complexity of Productivity for Knowledge Work Productivity is defined as: the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time For some knowledge workers, we can reasonably define things this way. Coincidently, I recently engaged with him again because of some work I'm doing around social media for businesses.