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Bridge the Women and Leadership Gap With Mentors, Training

Absorb LMS

Adopting strategies geared toward addressing issues of women and leadership can give your company a competitive edge. Build a leadership pipeline. Incorporating material from the corporate learning platform, including external content libraries, is an easy way to make high-quality leadership and management training available.

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Mentoring Matters, Especially for Women and Minorities

CLO Magazine

A 2018 report by McKinsey & Co. One way to increase diversity in leadership roles is to improve mentoring opportunities for women and minorities. The study’s co-author, Mark Livingston, said organizations with mentoring programs are viewed as more attractive places to work and retain employees at a higher rate. “If

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Fewer Mentors, Bigger Problems

CLO Magazine

A 2018 survey from the LeanIn Foundation and SurveyMonkey found that nearly half of male managers felt uncomfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, such as mentoring, working alone or socializing together. That means about 1 in 6 male managers would hesitate to mentor a woman. Self-Imposed Fear.

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Mentoring Program Success Story: Extensis Group’s Career Mentoring Program

Chronus

Mentoring programs provide numerous benefits to both employees and employers. Q: Why did Extensis start a mentoring program? To address the needs of our employees, we decided to establish an employee mentoring program aimed at achieving greater career growth and engagement within our company. Q: What benefits did mentors see?

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Obama Kicks Off ATD 2018, Foreshadows Session Themes

CLO Magazine

President Barack Obama was the keynote speaker at the 2018 ATD International Conference and Exposition in San Diego. More than 10,000 people attended the conference, which kicked off May 7, 2018, in San Diego. Photo courtesy ATD. When the 44 th president took the stage, many cheered and shouted, “We miss you!

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The Future of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Chronus

The importance of creating an equitable workforce is drawing the attention of regulatory bodies like the State of California that recently mandated companies to have a diverse board (and subsequently reported 669 board seats were filled by women since 2018) and NASDAQ that recently required listed companies to report their diversity statistics.

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Breaking Down Barriers: How UDL Transforms the Learning Experience

CourseArc

2018 Does UDL Resolve the Impact a Learning Disability May Have on Student Outcomes? Recommendations for Leadership Sometimes those in a leadership role may not be confident enough in the subject matter to evaluate online learning content and give advice of a pedagogical nature, especially as the content becomes more specialized or technical.