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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

All industries are undergoing enormous change, mostly due to new technologies, globalization, and a very diverse workforce. Any company, faced with these kinds of disruptive forces must keep learning. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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Think employees want to park politics at the door? Think again.

CLO Magazine

Learning at work has become an increasingly social experience. Sometimes, this shared learning can bond team members closer together. Learning and development executives are in the unique position to help curate these experiences to engender loyalty and engagement around the larger organizational purpose.

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Learning During Times of Growth

CLO Magazine

Many CLOs and other learning executives are walking with a bit more spring in their steps these days, and perhaps smiling a bit more often. Growth companies are not just throwing money at various opportunities, but must pay close attention to margins and maximizing the return on every bit of their investments in learning.

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Highlights From Day Two of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer Magazine Symposium

CLO Magazine

Day two of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer magazine Symposium continued with more innovative learning strategies in Amelia Island, Fla. He also pointed out that operational non-negotiables are essential to his company — in the form of ethnics and integrity, hiring standards, training standards, employee relations, etc. —

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Eight Ways Learning Impacts Succession Planning

CLO Magazine

Learning leaders are integral to the succession management process because so much of it depends on developing and preparing high potentials for future responsibilities. Wilde, vice president of organization effectiveness and chief learning officer at General Mills, and author of Dancing With the Talent Stars.

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The Value of a Virtual Academy

CLO Magazine

When Microsoft needed a more efficient way to deliver education to its global finance function, it tore down the classroom walls and created a flexible, Web-based learning model. Instead, Young created Microsoft’s Finance Academy — a learning portal for the company’s finance professionals.

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Use Simulations to Develop Millennials Leaders

CLO Magazine

Instead, learning leaders should build their knowledge and accelerate their real-world capabilities by putting participants in the executive’s shoes for a given period of time. These kinds of simulations can be very diverse. There is a senior management chasm developing, and there aren’t enough Generation Xers to help fill the gap.