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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

For one thing, organizations aren’t reviewing their learning and development strategies very often. It’s higher where all learning activities are separate from the HR function with different reporting lines to the C-suite. Yet, the results of the efforts to achieve this goal are not encouraging.

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There’s an Alternative to Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Action learning with a trained coach is a cost-effective approach that enables leaders to develop capabilities while working to solve urgent organizational or social problems. Essentially, leaders are learning while working, making it easy to see how learned skills apply on the job. But there’s an alternative.

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Implications of the ESG agenda for leadership

CLO Magazine

The role of CLOs A recent study conducted by Russell Reynolds Associates in partnership with the U.N. And second, what can we learn from innovations in leadership development different organizations have been pursuing to develop these kinds of leadership skills and mindsets?

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There’s an Alternative to Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Action learning with a trained coach is a cost-effective approach that enables leaders to develop capabilities while working to solve urgent organizational or social problems. Essentially, leaders are learning while working, making it easy to see how learned skills apply on the job. But there’s an alternative.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

Google did a study of its employees and found that managers are successful in Google, not because of their technical expertise, although that’s important, but because of what they do to help team members learn and develop and achieve success. Managers have control of their own learning, not corporate trainers, HR, or a CLO.

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

CLO Magazine

Research by Deloitte revealed that organizations with a strong learning culture had between 30 to 50 percent higher engagement and retention rates than those without one. A study of tech workers by Indeed found that self-improvement in the form of employee development or tuition reimbursement was the most-valued job characteristic.

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Old habits die hard, but good leaders can change

CLO Magazine

Innovative action: learning through experimentation. The leadership habit that balances the legacy habit of avoiding risk by delaying action is what I call “innovative action.” It’s the ability to uncover the best course of action through experiments, innovation and learning as you go.

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