The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

A water-cooler conversation about expectations and performance improvement, an informal inquiry about what was learned from a recent training program, an on-the-job suggestion to improve technique, often do not take more than a few minutes. They need everyone to value learning and its contribution to continuous performance improvement.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2013

CLOs may already know who they want to pull into leadership development programs, but it pays to include high potentials at lower levels to add cultural and business performance value. Or, they may stay but lack the necessary experience and skill to make critical leadership decisions.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In a training culture, the assumption is that the most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. In a training culture, the learning and development function is evaluated on the basis of delivery of programs and materials.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 21, 2012

As I’ve stated in a previous blog post , a high performing organization needs a comprehensive approach to learning and a set of tools to facilitate learning. A training program, or an educational event, or even a CEO’s speech about the importance of learning is not enough. How to apply action-learning to teams.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Of course, this concept isn’t all new.Virtual workers have been around for a while. But what works today won’t necessarily work tomorrow, and those working in the learning and development space should be prepared to continually evolve to meet a range of in-the-moment-of-learning needs. Actions learning leaders can take now.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

With trust, of course, comes great responsibility. How does our leadership behavior impact the world around us? When employees are supported to learn and step up to support their community of colleagues and customers, they become empowered as brand ambassadors. From awareness to action. How are we listening to employees?

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OpenSesame

APRIL 8, 2019

The demand for training programs across organizations is on the rise to increase speed to market, product knowledge and ultimately a competitive advantage – all while expecting the L&D department to deliver more with less. However, learner disengagement and non-completion of courses continue to rise. Social Learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Simulation – replicating real-life problem solving within a safe environment; for example, learning business acumen by working with a team to solve a typical business problem and receiving immediate feedback on their performance. On-campus college courses – attending for-credit courses or non-credit courses that are relevant to one’s job.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In a training culture, most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand. In a training culture, the learning and development function is evaluated on the basis of delivery of programs and materials.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

We should use them at companies too, including for leadership development. Many companies are experiencing significant leadership gaps and an insufficient leadership pipeline, primarily due to the increasing pace of change in the global economy. So, why don’t more companies use games for leadership development?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the leadership team at global energy technology company FMC Technologies’ Subsea Technologies Western Region set a target in the fourth quarter of 2010 to double revenue and increase profitability in five to seven years, they focused on three areas: increasing market share, developing new platforms for growth and improving execution.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2013

Many developments in enterprise learning facilitate efforts to develop virtuous leadership. These include: Coaching: Personal mentoring and coaching — performed with an awareness of the coach’s responsibility in shaping an ethical culture — is important to leadership development programs and courses in ethics.

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Unboxed

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Earlier this year, Amazon announced a $700 million investment in employee training programs. “ We think it’s important to invest in our employees, and to help them gain new skills and create more professional options for themselves ,” said Beth Galetti, senior vice president of HR. Action learning projects.

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Limestone Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In this webinar you’ll… Explore the benefits of AR/VR to learners, as well as the practical considerations and challenges around deploying such programs. Discover the ROI of implanting these types of programs, including how to decrease overall costs associated with long training periods and potential rework.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Graybar’s management team had a critical need for leadership development in 2001. At the time, the company offered basic management training programs, but nothing for higher-level managers. Since 2005, the SCM program has kept pace with advances in technology, the distribution industry and shifting adult learning styles.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2017

Although financial scrutiny remains, an executive mindset focused on both operational rigor in learning and ROI is part of the “new normal,” and many learning executives are reinvigorated about their jobs and the contribution their learning organizations can make to their companies’ efforts to increase market share and shareholder value.

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Leo Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Advances in learning technologies have created a natural way to integrate social learning strategies into digital learning programs. 5 Opportunities to Integrate Social Learning Strategies Into Digital Learning. Application of Learning. So where have we seen the most important success stories?

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

CLOs face intense pressure to build learning cultures in which geographically dispersed teams can engage with relevant content “on-demand” to reskill. Technology is the fulcrum of L&D transformation from static, “top-down” courses to employee-driven, collaborative learning. Fostering a Culture of Learning.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Are you on auto-pilot when it comes to development programs, stories and statistics? What if you continued this same course over the next one, two or five years? I’m of the opinion that leadership values are constant laws, but how those get manifested and how we learn and grow changes by the minute. Strategies.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 18, 2019

That learning culture is still evolving with innovation playing a vital role. From left, the executive learning leadership team at Nationwide: Kathy Smith, Tamar Williamson and Chad Zierke. One new venture is the innovation learning sprint. Technology, of course, is a cornerstone of Nationwide’s innovation push.

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Thinkdom

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Rapid eLearning, a type of custom eLearning, facilitates the swift creation and deployment of learning modules, allowing for a prompt response to the evolving demands of the business environment. The perks for employees are evident – courses directly applicable to daily tasks enhance the transfer of knowledge to on-the-job performance.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 20, 2016

Not that brilliant sales program you helped to design – but the bad, the boring and the “Kill me now” stuff. Bad training experiences and poorly designed (or non-existent) job resources have become the brand of “Learning and Development” or “Training”. Action learning sets. Micro-courses. How has this evolved?

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2011

Day two of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer magazine Symposium continued with more innovative learning strategies in Amelia Island, Fla. Bill Whitmore, CEO of AlliedBarton Security Services began the morning with a keynote on how to drive business performance through leadership branding.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2019

As executive coaches, we’ve found that cohort-based executive development programs that integrate four specific learning components — group learning, executive and peer coaching, experiential/action learning activities and a strong emphasis on personal development and self-awareness — offer a powerful way to rapidly develop leaders at any level.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Substitute learning for any number of ideas or causes an organization is trying to sell, and it’s easy to chuckle at the thought of something like, say, an operations management course ever breaking the internet. But the premium on making an impact through learning is high.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Prior to 2008, when it came to employee development, Microsoft held a subsection of course offerings in person twice a year in a centralized location in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and one in Asia-Pacific called Learning Weeks. A 2009 pilot program organized 18 self-selected finance professionals into three teams.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 22, 2014

Creating Award-Winning Programs for Local Government The Center for Organizational Excellence provides learning and development services to the county’s 4,400 employees. Last year level 1, which evaluates effectiveness and learner satisfaction with courses, measured 4.5 on a 5-point scale.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

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Limestone Learning

AUGUST 31, 2018

Open-source learning platforms like Moodle and Totara make it incredibly easy to integrate innovative eLearning tools and strategies—including gamified content, badges, certificates, and best-of-breed content—that enhance the learning experience while providing learners with incentives to continuously develop their skillset.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 5, 2015

The term ‘blended learning’ first appeared in the late-1990s when web-based learning solutions started to become more widely used and were integrated on one way or another with face-to-face methods. Of course the ‘blending’ concept has been around for much longer than the past few years. University of Salford, UK.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 24, 2019

A great example of this includes the pretraining readings that many organizations send out to participants in leadership development programs. If I am one of those participants, I will probably skim the articles on the plane ride to the leadership retreat. Or, “What are three words you would use to describe our new product?”.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 14, 2016

Simulations are ideally suited for millennial leadership development tools because traditional development tools such as action learning, learning exchange and employee rotations, while good, can be slow to produce results. Getting started using business simulations for leadership development is not hard.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2012

There is a core set of frameworks that support the way organizational learning and development is conducted. Many of these, such as the Kirkpatrick evaluation levels, carrot and stick motivational programs and the ADDIE model have been around since the 1960s. Consider the ADDIE model today. Further, it’s dated.

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Limestone Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

While defining a maturity map or even creating a snapshot of comparable enterprise learning programs can be a very difficult task, it is even more daunting to understand where your organization is on such a maturity model and to plot a path toward optimized outcomes.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 22, 2019

Peggy and Jim were used to this question as they would recount the successful partnership that produced a series of award-winning talent development programs. These might include growth, innovation, product development and, of course, talent management. Then take action, learn and build the relationships to scale.

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