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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Sydney Savion

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Chief Learning Officer recently sat down for a conversation with Sydney Savion, chief learning officer at Air New Zealand. In 2020, she was recognized as CLO of the Year. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? CLO: What lessons did you learn back in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021?

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Meet the CLO Board: Tamar Elkeles

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We recently sat down for a conversation with Tamar Elkeles, the chief human resources officer and head of HR for XCOM Labs. She is the former vice president of Qualcomm Learning Center, and was named CLO of the year in 2010. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? Is there time outside of work?

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3 steps to improving conversational capacity

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We participate in conversations all the time. Our company recently teamed up with Craig Weber, an expert in the field of Conversational Capacity®, a discipline that teaches people to find the “sweet spot,” where candor and honesty are balanced with curiosity and open-mindedness. Awareness: Tune into feelings and behavior patterns.

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Sydney Savion is the 2020 CLO of the year

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The Air New Zealand CLO was experiencing an ultra-rare moment for 2020, disconnected from the virtual world during the Learning in Practice Awards ceremony on Oct. 20, when she was announced as the 2020 CLO of the Year. In the midst of the global pandemic, Savion says she feels incredibly blessed to earn the title of CLO of the Year.

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Coaching for post-COVID conversations: Working through the friction, fears and fiction

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In sorting through varying stressors and issues, it is helpful in surfacing where the weight of emotional worries may reside, and how individuals’ mindsets and behaviors might be getting in the way. Through coaching conversations, the 3Fs can prompt reflective dialogue linked to post-pandemic sentiment within organizations.

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Making everyday feedback real

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Colleagues have realized huge value from working with these actor-coaches who don’t break role and allow the conversation to play out. That said, if a colleague is “stuck” or has created a nonproductive situation, the actor-coach will take a time-out and provide coaching to the colleague on how they are managing the feedback conversation.

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The Education of a CLO

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After about three months, I remember a conversation with my father where I said, “This doesn’t feel like work to me — I love teaching and coaching these kids.”. First, as the head teacher, a CLO is responsible for the architecture and design of the technical, professional and leadership development of the workforce.

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