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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. The only thing holding companies back from learning at the speed of change is their organizational culture which, for many, is a barrier to learning. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

As globalization increases and communities become more diverse, the competitive advantage of any organization will be its collective knowledge and its expanded expertise. We know that people learn most from their co-workers and from on-the-job experience, yet we invest the most in formal, training programs. It’s the Culture.

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Implications of the ESG agenda for leadership

CLO Magazine

Then we have the hard-to-predict massive global shocks: The once-in-a-century shock of the COVID pandemic, which drove multiple disruptions on several levels, and more recently, the multiple disruptive effects of the war in Ukraine. Assigning participants a mentor. While each individual’s story was unique, a few key themes emerged.

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

CLO Magazine

It’s a perfect storm of pressure, in which chief learning officers weigh ROI and manage digital disruption across industries as they pivot from the age of the customer to the age of the employee. Technology is the fulcrum of L&D transformation from static, “top-down” courses to employee-driven, collaborative learning.

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Eight Ways Learning Impacts Succession Planning

CLO Magazine

It ensures capable leaders are ready for critical roles, fosters business continuity, aids talent retention and can strengthen a company culture. What leadership style fits and doesn’t fit with the culture? Succession management is one of the most important functions in business today. What factors cause derailment?

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Learning During Times of Growth

CLO Magazine

In addition to the learning strategy, Pollard and other Regions executives also helped coordinate a successful change strategy addressing the cultural issues of the merger. And we’re pursuing learning outsourcing where it makes the most sense to provide key elements of our learning capabilities to our consumer finance business.”.

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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. It also keeps participants, mentors and staff in two-way communication using Microsoft tools throughout the course.