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Essential skills today’s leaders need to navigate ambiguity and activate talent

CLO Magazine

In today’s quickly shifting business landscape, leaders and employees are facing global economic challenges, rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and frequent corporate restructuring. Instead of clinging to old ways of doing things, coaching skills help everyone embrace flexibility and agility.

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Agile Teams Create Agile Learning Organizations

CLO Magazine

Agility is the emerging trend for companies in thinking about how they structure teams to accomplish work. Agile methodology began with software development, but, with its focus on adapting to change rather than following a process, it has become relevant in other areas as well. In other words, they are not agile. True or false.

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Closing the skills gap is a modern fairytale

CLO Magazine

This metaphor, aptly named the Red Queen’s Race, may be the most accurate way to describe the challenge facing organizations in their effort to close the global skills gap. Technology is outpacing efforts to address the global skills gap. The majority are looking for more coaching, mentoring and career guidance.

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

CLO Magazine

As Julie Dervin, Cargill’s global head of corporate learning and development, told Harvard Business Review , “We really only had the capacity to reach about 10 percent to 15 percent of the total relevant population in a given year when delivering a particular learning program. 5 Capabilities of an Enlightened CLO.

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The Reskilling Revolution versus the ‘clay layer’

CLO Magazine

News reports and blogs are filled with references to the need for reskilling and upskilling large swaths of the global population over the next 5-10 years. We will take as given that significant skill gaps exist in local and global labor markets. artificial intelligence and robotic process automation). soft) skills.

Agile 101
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Verizon’s Lou Tedrick combines innovation and servant leadership to meet the needs of every learner

CLO Magazine

The pandemic transformed many CLOs into corporate sherpas, guiding employees as they moved to remote work and providing them with newly virtual content to ensure they had the skills and support to remain productive and engaged. From fashion designer to CLO. Tedrick didn’t plan to become the CLO of a $128 billion Fortune 100 company.

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Agile Leaders: Born or Bred?

CLO Magazine

Leaders who can thrive in any business environment share one important trait: agility. As disparate as the two business environments are, there’s a common denominator — something a leader who can thrive anywhere would need to move forward in either scenario — learning agility. Mental agility. People agility.

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