The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

Recently, I conducted a workshop for the leadership team of a company that wants to increase the impact of its training programs. I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective. They wanted to know specifically what they could do to facilitate learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. Whereas in a learning culture, responsibility for learning resides with each employee and each team. The CLO, or HR, or a training department controls the resources for learning.

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Torrance Learning

APRIL 1, 2016

In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. Whereas in a learning culture, responsibility for learning resides with each employee and each team. The CLO, or HR, or a training department controls the resources for learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In answering this question, the first thing managers have to understand is that continuous learning is the modus operandi for all high performance organizations. Individual, team, and enterprise performance can’t improve without learning. Learning isn’t in addition to a manager’s job; it IS a manager’s job.

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Docebo

JULY 8, 2021

Social learning can help today’s organizations keep up with the pace at which their business moves. More and more, organizations are turning to social learning to deliver exciting e- learning experiences to their customers, partners, and employees. Not good, right?

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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.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 20, 2017

Whether it’s a nonprofit, start-up, small business or a large enterprise, no organization can afford to skip on learning and development for its people. In a March Forbes article , leadership development professional Rebecca Zucker offered 10 ways companies can develop people with little to no learning and development budget. “In

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Learning Pool

JANUARY 11, 2022

The past year has been huge for learning teams as they continue to accelerate and mature their adoption of digitally-enabled learning. Once again, there is a backdrop of uncertainty as we look at the learning trends for the year ahead. This is about developing the business acumen of your learning team to drive value.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2020

Reflecting on this reaction made me want to share what I have learned about creating powerful learning engagements. After more than 25 years in the learning profession, from new-hire orientation programs to senior team development at Fortune 100 companies, I have captured a lot from observing so many learning programs and initiatives.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 6, 2016

I love the sense of understanding, enthusiasm and acceptance the leadership team conveys here regarding their role in learning. As you might expect, based on my input to a previous blog (3/25, Training Isn’t Learning ), I was delighted to see the emphasis on the necessary role of the manager! The logic and specifics are great.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

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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Docebo

MAY 8, 2018

Social learning can help today’s organizations keep up with the pace at which their business moves. More and more, organizations are turning to social learning to deliver exciting e-learning experiences to their employees, customers and partners. Simply speaking, people learn by example and by direct experiences.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2017

Learning agility — the ability of a leader to succeed in new situations — is the core of the model and is designed to measure a leader’s adaptability. Leadership competence is organized into four career tracks: Coach, Ninja, Thought Leader and Rainmaker. Or they can mentor a start-up.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

If we’re using the same ideas, thoughts and guides to mentor or teach others year after year, does it retain value? 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. A Learning Organization. It’s simple yet profound. Depreciation.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning ….&#%!? Presented by Training Magazine Network Diagram of the learning process: Input: you can get input in lots of ways Organize Apply Evaluate (in a wheel – each of these is a subprocess) Looking first at learning. In a disconnected learning system: Need.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Organizations with effective succession management processes can enjoy higher shareholder returns, greater profits, faster revenue growth, operating efficiency improvements, greater customer satisfaction and stronger overall employee engagement scores than those with less effective programs. Eight Elements of Succession Management 1.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2013

Without a clear and integrated strategy, these same leaders may flounder and prematurely leave an organization. Pasmore said growth requires organizations to accelerate talent development for key roles. Or, they may stay but lack the necessary experience and skill to make critical leadership decisions.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

These characteristics, according to the research, can get managers in trouble by impeding their ability to build and sustain teams, engage people, communicate effectively and manage performance. He had installed a strong compliance process that allowed few mistakes to slip through the cracks at his organization.”. Dark vs. Bright .

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Unboxed

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Some employers may be tempted to push employee training to the side of their business-centric priorities, but you may want to think again… At Unboxed Training & Technology, our goal is to provide you with any recent corporate training trends with actionable ways to apply these new industry insights to your company or team.

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Training Orchestra

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The public sector, which includes local government office and other municipal organizations, rely heavily on regular training sessions to ensure their day-to-day operations are a success. Behind the scenes of every efficiently functioning government lies a dedicated team responsible for a crucial aspect – learning and development.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2012

A leader’s legacy is established by leaving something of enduring quality behind for the organization and its people. Effective leadership occurs when the leader strengthens others’ capacity to learn, to reflect and to extract meaning from their learning. These are legacy worthy as well.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2012

SNAPSHOT : 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 that enables people in different time zones to come together in an environment that fosters teamwork and yields a high retention rate.

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Limestone Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

And you'll learn how to do it all using nothing but standard PowerPoint and a good story. Join PowerPoint expert Richard Goring for a session tailored to helping you create persuasions designed to help you and your sales team close more deals. Is your organization’s team evolving to meet new challenges?

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Thinkdom

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This blog shares insights, providing you with a guide to boost employee performance with six simple corporate learning solutions. Whether you're in HR, a corporate trainer, or a business leader, these strategies are here to help enhance team skills and spark innovation. Benefits Role Clarity: No more guesswork.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Because the shortage of leaders is a critical factor in organizational growth, and current methods are not effective, learning leaders must innovate to build a leadership pipeline. For these innovators, there is an increasing demand to maximize learning technology to create a competitive edge. Don’t Forget the Debrief and Assessment.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning … &#%!? Presented by Training Magazine Network Diagram of the learning process: Input: you can get input in lots of ways Organize Apply Evaluate (in a wheel – each of these is a subprocess) Looking first at learning. In a disconnected learning system: Need.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 22, 2014

Stegmaier said Bruny deserves “an enormous amount of credit in leading the organization through this process. “You would have a hard time finding a better learning officer anywhere. Learning effectiveness is measured using the Kirkpatrick model. Level 2 measures the effect of courses on action learning.

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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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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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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

The 20 percent: learning through others. Learning is social. People learn with and through others. Conversations are the stem cells of learning. Effective managers encourage their team members to buddy up on projects, to shadow others and to participate in professional social networks.

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Limestone Learning

AUGUST 31, 2018

So, how exactly can an authoring tool save organizations both time and money? Each year, organizations spend billions on training, while thousands of professional courses are administered, and hundreds of business books are published. the webcast will also examine elements of a live simulation in action.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 30, 2019

While Fierce, a small, growing company, doesn’t have a formal leadership development program, Engle said company leaders and mentors taught her how the business works and gave her a sense of connection to the company. Belcher said millennials need a sense of purpose in their work and a sense of connection to the organization.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Soft skill development is steeped in experiential learning, which is why learning leaders should aim to create experiences meant to test leaders’ behaviors and EQ. Many organizations opt to send their leaders to executive education programs such as Harvard or Dartmouth. But learning leaders also can make internal efforts.

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Limestone Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

You don’t need a special personality or pizazz to be a coaching-style leader—all that’s required are the basic tools and strategies to engage and motivate your team. An accelerating rate of technological change and other disrupters are transforming organizations and reducing the longevity of organizations and job skills.

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

Your Workscape is everything in your organization except the training department. It’s the organization as organism. In the same vein, I talk about Working Smarter instead of informal learning, social learning, and so forth. Some people denigrate informal learning but nobody’s against Working Smarter.

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