The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Mentoring – a relationship in which senior leaders impart their knowledge and wisdom on employees who are learning to be leaders. Learning alliance – a relationship between managers and their direct reports that focuses on employee learning and how managers can support that learning. External online courses (e.g.,

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Acorn Labs

AUGUST 18, 2022

Cohort learning is a collaborative style of learning in which a group of learners undertake a training program together. As opposed to self-paced learning, where learners undertake solo learning at their own pace, participants in cohort-based learning actively engage in shared learning activities within a fixed period of time.

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eFront

JULY 10, 2018

Allow employees to self-direct their learning. Make learning goals as important as performance goals. Use casual learning check-ins. Connect employees with inspirational mentors. Create opportunities for social learning. Build a library of learning resources. Recognize learning as an achievement.

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Learning Pool

JANUARY 11, 2022

Now some might think that switching from e-courses to e-resources might be the way to solve the problem but I think they are missing the underlying problem of how we harness the energy of others to power learning. We need more humane learning design and more humane learning journeys. But it doesn’t stop there.

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Training Industry

MAY 30, 2017

Participants play an active role in their training, and their personal investment in the learning process has grown. My role is to offer short certificate programs to companies. These challenges include the transformation of the traditional learning model, the need to be agile and the existence of communities of practice.

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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 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. • Assignment of action-oriented developmental activities. • Persuasive mentoring and coaching relationships.

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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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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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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? If we’re using the same ideas, thoughts and guides to mentor or teach others year after year, does it retain value? How often do you think about the future? Strategies.

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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

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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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

According to Development Dimensions International’s Ready-Now Leaders: 25 Findings to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges — Global Leadership Forecast 2014-15, only 37 percent use a formal program to develop a talent bench for a smooth transition. Of course, learning without application is worthless.

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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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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

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. In 2013, 1,562 employees, or a third of the staff, accessed these informal learning resources to increase their skills, particularly within on-the-job training.

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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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Training Orchestra

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Unlike private enterprises that often utilize sophisticated tools, public entities often rely extensively on spreadsheets to schedule and manage training programs for their employees across all services. How is Training Normally Managed Within a Local Government? Additionally, adopting a tiered approach to training can also prove beneficial.

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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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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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