CLO Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

Determining the impact of learning programs continues to be a real challenge for many organizations. Surprisingly few have a systematic approach to measuring the impact of their L&D initiatives, particularly when it comes to actions designed to improve capabilities or interpersonal skills, such as leadership or soft skills.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In the same time period, 10 times as many users accessed courses on stress management, and managers were the most likely to access development opportunities, especially those with a large emphasis on learning soft skills. Other top skills Monster listed include dependability, teamwork/collaboration, and problem solving/critical thinking.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

People are complex, with skills, talents and emotions and intricacies in each of those categories. ” Although this is not the sole definition of EI, it is the general two-pronged consensus people concede to in attempts to describe this important skill. However, leaders have a special demand for effective EI skills.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

To address a much-needed gap in their overall leadership development strategy, The University of Alabama Birmingham, UAB, created a High Potential program, called the “Institute for Leadership.” Since the office was founded by Jean Ann Larson in mid-2016, the approach has been one of rapport-building and skill-building with senior leaders.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

The challenge, however, is how to develop — at all levels — bold, exceptional leaders with the awareness and skills to deploy environment-saving solutions. What does the environmental crisis mean in practice for the skills and competencies future leaders will need? And how can L&D professionals help leaders to develop these skills?

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 30, 2023

Coaching can be leveraged in different ways to ensure the pipeline of future leaders is skilled and ready to go. In this article, I will describe how coaching can augment leadership development, promote knowledge transfer and skills on the job and sustain leadership behaviors over time.

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Training Orchestra

JANUARY 9, 2024

The title of Chief Learning Officer (CLO) may not be as widely known as other C-suite members, but its importance is perhaps more significant now than ever before. While the CLO acronym had been used previously for other roles, Kerr’s title was the first of its kind. We’ll explore this fascinating area below.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Specifically, I want to share three major skill sets that have proven instrumental in career development for talented women in these extraordinary circumstances: tolerance for ambiguity, adaptability and risk-taking. One of our program managers observed it as a newfound “level of acceptance, rather than resistance.”

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This article highlights how empathy improves organizational culture, that peer coaching is the preferred method for empathic skills development and five steps to implement peer coaching in your organization. Businesses have shifted formal L&D programs from understanding logistics to becoming emotionally intelligent.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Group learning can break down long-standing silos, drive culture change, build critical skills and leverage diverse perspectives in decision-making. The organization used group coaching sessions to develop the new culture by helping leaders identify mindsets and behaviors to stop, start and continue. But there are tradeoffs.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

These programs, meticulously designed to cater to varying levels of leadership proficiency, delve into a spectrum of essential soft skills, team dynamics and agile leadership strategies.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Once we chose the model, our learning team designed the innovative “Everyday Feedback” program for all colleagues. This program combines self-directed, on-demand learning with practical application to embed the learning. How can we support someone, ongoing, who is trying to alter their behavior?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This alone can have devastating effects on decision-making, ethical behavior and culture cornerstones like psychological safety. Avoid offering an executive cohort of your regular leadership program. This will give you a good sense of the issues to address and skills to develop. But in reality, they need a more fluid format.

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Degreed

MARCH 21, 2023

You will get paid based on each and every skill at every skill level,” David Blake, Degreed CEO, told a room of 350 learning professionals at Degreed LENS, our annual flagship conference. What Blake described are characteristics of a skills-based organization. Moreover, it’s not lifelong-learner behavior.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The term “soft skills” is often met with an eye-roll these days. There’s a distinction to be made between broad types of skills, to be sure. Never mind that the so-called soft skills are actually the hard ones — they are more challenging to obtain and require a deeper and more enduring commitment.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Development, at a personal as well as professional level, is triggered by the discomforting experience of being placed in an unfamiliar and challenging environment, one in which the knowledge and skills that normally serve you well don’t seem to work. Consequently, we have to take on new skills and new knowledge to operate in this new world.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Learning and development executives still need to deliver results through employee engagement and skill building and application. Providing learning experiences that build empathy and strengthen authentic relationships can build skills that last well beyond these pandemic times. appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

companies spend millions on first-time manager development programs, but 60 percent of these new managers fail within the first two years, indicating a poor return on that investment. Unfortunately, most new manager development programs do not cover this crucial area. Mindset No. Mindset No.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Following a program that has taught innovation or coaching, they want to see innovation or coaching become business as usual – skills their leaders now practice. What organizations are missing is this: the most well-designed learning experience can only activate behavior change in an organization that makes space for such changes.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We’ve all been there: A last-minute request to run a training program with very little information provided. As you prepare the night before, you create a brief survey that you can use at the end of the program to gather high-level satisfaction feedback from the delegates regarding the value the session has provided.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Ekpedeme “Pamay” Bassey, CLO of The Kraft Heinz Co., The program, sponsored by Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) focused on applying technology as a tool for the L&D industry. Now, after coming on board as CLO for Kraft Heinz in Chicago last December, Bassey is reimagining the company’s approach to corporate learning.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In other words, they have the cognitive skills of leadership: They know the “what” — rules and regulations, etc. They also have behavioral skills of leadership — or the “how” — leading with strong communication that shows empathy and respect for others in most interactions, including those that are challenging (e.g.,

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

Until these value propositions are clarified, explicated and agreed to by L&D leaders and their clients and stakeholders, it is impossible to make the right decisions about L&D program priorities, resource investment scope and intensity, needs for manager engagement, demands for evidence of impact and so forth. .

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Programs are paused, frozen, delayed, reduced or even eliminated. Most coaching is considered a soft skill. When executives perceive hard skills as more valuable than soft skills, coaching has a disadvantage from the beginning. This usually means evaluating coaching programs to the impact and ROI levels.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

That’s because there’s urgency to figuring this out, especially in industries still struggling to fill open roles, and in an environment where we all continuously need to invest in new skills to keep up with advances in technology like artificial intelligence reshaping many roles. Here’s how to make the Big Stay work for you.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Intuitively, we know developing as a leader is not merely a technical exercise of acquiring new knowledge and skills. Each leader’s capacity to be effective is informed by the totality of who they are, including their history, skills, beliefs, stories, training, experiences, temperament, fears and aspirations. And it’s complex.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 14, 2024

At the time, most companies had extensive onboarding training for new sales representatives that included basic sales skills and product knowledge. Another approach is to optimize the corporate software programs. Enablement programs are also evolving related to measurement, tracking and KPI attainment.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

By understanding the strengths and weaknesses of potential R&D leaders, companies can create learning and development programs that more effectively foster their growth. They exhibit strong critical thinking skills, making them stand out in their roles. Commitment to learning: R&D professionals are naturally curious.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The integration of AI applications in corporate learning is not just a trend but a strategic move toward enhancing employee skills, knowledge retention and overall performance. This application of VR and AR not only elevates the skills of medical professionals but also contributes to a higher standard of patient care and safety.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

From a program design perspective, there needed to be a method that moved significant numbers of leaders through the program quickly, minimized time away from the work unit and fostered relationships between the regions. Hybrid delivery The program design included weekly sessions over a three-month period. Pre-work (e.g.,

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Consider, too, that many of today’s executive education programs: Rely on broad theory, not detailed strategy. This practice doesn’t really account for variations across industry, experience or skill, and its ability to help specific leaders deal with specific challenges is therefore limited.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

All of this work is done without the nuances that an in-office setting can accommodate much more often and easily: leaders observing behavior, providing feedback, coaching on the fly and collaborating with their team members. Leadership has always required these behaviors. Role-model best practices and behaviors for the team.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Whether designing trench coats or building L&D programs, Burberry aims to empower others through abundant creativity to grow beyond their boundaries and expectations. EDP is the first of a growing pipeline of new, science-backed L&D initiatives at Burberry, with more programs in the works.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Meeting the demands of an increasingly complex workforce has required us to think more creatively about how we identify skilled underrepresented talent and build bridges into the company. At Lockheed Martin, the use of scholarship programs helps us identify new sources of talent. Shifting requirements to support skills-based hiring.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 6, 2020

And when you’re dealing with someone, let’s say for example your 8-year-old son, who treats seeking out inconsistencies in your behavior like a full-time, salaried position with sweet benefits, it’s even more so. Which is why there’s a really big problem lying beneath the surface of a CLO’s work. The CLO Accelerator is a next-?generation

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

Think about the value of a leadership development program. Is the value based on how participants react to the program (reaction)? Or what participants have learned from the program (learning)? Or what participants do because of the program (application)? Then it moved to behavior (applying the leadership competencies).

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A common hallmark of ineffective learning and development is one-size-fits-all content that doesn’t account for different skill levels and learning styles. We can’t afford to rely on superficial and outmoded approaches to learning that treat employees like numbers and fail to drive sustainable behavioral change.

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