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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

What should be a manager’s role in employee learning? In answering this question, the first thing managers have to understand is that continuous learning is the modus operandi for all high performance organizations. Managers have control of their own learning, not corporate trainers, HR, or a CLO. to 2:00 p.m.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

This emphasis on formal training is a barrier to learning and change. In a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture, trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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Implications of the ESG agenda for leadership

CLO Magazine

A new leadership role, and the skills and mindsets required to play it Navigating these disruptions is transforming the skills and mindset required of senior executive leaders, including chief learning officers. CEOs see their new role as influencing change in their organizations to open up the space for others to behave differently.

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Fostering trust, psychological safety and growth: How to leverage learning science to create a strong workplace learning culture

CLO Magazine

Learning, as described by Amy Edmonson , is an “ongoing process of reflection and action, characterized by asking questions, seeking feedback, experimenting, reflecting on results and discussing errors or unexpected outcomes of actions.” People learn best when they believe in their ability to grow and expect they will succeed.

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Beyond the status quo: how enlightened CLOs can enable true employee readiness

CLO Magazine

By moving beyond the status quo and adopting new capabilities, CLOs in all industries can enable true employee readiness. 5 Capabilities of an Enlightened CLO. Adopting a platform that allows employees to access information in the flow of work will simply bust open the silos that prevent actionable learning.

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Learning 2014: Mobile and Social Opportunities

CLO Magazine

Learning leaders believe they have passed through a difficult period and that the improving economy has caused a change in business expectations. One CLO said, “I believe the country is on the right track and the worst of economic issues are behind us.” Another CLO said competencies are weighted for hiring and promotions.

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A Quest for Success

CLO Magazine

At Quest Diagnostics, a Fortune 500 health care company that provides diagnostics testing and clinical laboratory services worldwide, CEO Steve Rusckowski recognized that their senior leaders needed to break out of their functional roles and broaden their understanding of the organization’s value chain. Pre-Program Assessment.