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Booming tech sends L&D back to basics

CLO Magazine

This technology boom may finally solidify our place as strategic business partners. For learning professionals to bloom through the boom, reexamining our root system and turning to the sun are needed. Historically, these key business functions have often fallen to learning teams and the business need for them is not lost.

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Flipped learning for talent development: Lessons from the college classroom

CLO Magazine

In 2008, I contracted with Jefferson Community and Technical College to teach project management to two local businesses (my first official paid training job). WLXD course design combines flipped learning, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Kolb’s Experiential Model, Universal Design for Learning and Naked Teaching Design theory.

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The rise of the new well-being era

CLO Magazine

Early results from the Harvard Business Review found a positive impact of remote work. A famous experiment by Stanford’s economist Nicolas Bloom studied more than 1000 employees at Chinese travel company Ctrip. We need a new productivity paradigm that allows us to increase business results alongside employees’ wellbeing and engagement.

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How this 3D printing company improved its culture and talent management strategy

CLO Magazine

SprintRay, a 3D printing company that caters to dental professionals, found themselves in a unique situation during the height of COVID-19 business disruption in 2020. Unlike many businesses, the Los Angeles-based company was not in survival mode. Transform: Measure business outcomes. The SprintRey leadership team.

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A Day in the Life of a Learning Objective

CLO Magazine

A proper learning objective must be performance-based and follow the guidelines that Mager’s “Preparing Instructional Objectives” and Benjamin Bloom’s 1956 Taxonomy provide. Bloom conceived the six levels of cognition and associated hierarchy to categorize instructional objectives based on specificity and complexity.

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2013 Innovation — Division 2

CLO Magazine

GOLD: Adri Maisonet-Morales, Vice President, Enterprise Learning and Development, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina One thousand flowers are about to “bloom” at health insurance provider Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina. In the future, more of the workforce will be able to create and upload content.

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Manage Remotely With Coordination, Not Control

CLO Magazine

Economics professor Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University conducted research with a 16,000-person Chinese travel agency on the topic. Virtual working can be successful as long as a firm’s management and leadership style is aligned with the right values. Studies have also shown the benefits of telework.