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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Judy Whitcomb

CLO Magazine

CLO: How did you become interested in learning and development? Leveraging these natural talents and applying them to real-life experiences in the workplace with strong mentors and formal education in adult learning sparked my interest and passion in learning and development. CLO: How do you enjoy spending your time outside of work?

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Mentors: Keeping talented women career-focused in uncertain times

CLO Magazine

Mentors have been key players in helping the talented women leaders who attend our programs stay focused on their growth and development, despite bedrock changes to how they do it. Recently, we interviewed mentors to see how they and their mentees were adapting to these altered circumstances. Here are the highlights.

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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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Learning Agility and its Role in Leadership

CLO Magazine

Learning agility, which focuses on the ability to perform in the future, provides an answer. Warner Burke, professor of psychology at Columbia University, has studied learning agility for six years and describes it as being in an unfamiliar situation, not knowing what to do and figuring it out. Scott DeRue, the Edward J. Collaborating.

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

CLO Magazine

During leadership workshops aimed at developing coaching skills at a global bank, it was evident that while most leaders were familiar with mentoring, the majority of participants were not yet familiar with coaching as a leadership tool. Enhancing collaboration Coaching skills aren’t limited to one-on-one interactions.

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Extremophiles & Organizational Agility

Clark Quinn

A number of years ago, I co-wrote a chapter with Eileen Clegg called The Agility Factor , that appeared in Marcia Conner & James Clawson’s excellent collection of organizational culture articles in the book Creating a Learning Culture. Which reinforces the call for more ubiquitous mentoring that we argued for back then.

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From L&D to Harmonized Workforce Development

Infopro Learning

Learning leaders can take on stewardship by serving as advisor, coach, and mentor for the teams building workforce capabilities and skills; learning philosophy evangelist to the C-suite; and cheerleader for the organization’s responsibility to support innovation, evolution, and adaptation through continuous learning. Closing thoughts.

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