The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 3, 2018

With the publication of my new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy , I have continued to focus my blog posts on a manager’s role in supporting continuous learning for all employees in the workplace. Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption – February 17, 2017.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The immutable skills we’re referring to, which we write about in our book, “Win With Decency: How to Use Your Better Angels for Better Business” are humility, empathy, vulnerability, gratitude and generosity. According to a Fast Company article , employee morale was low, teams were dysfunctional and trust was lacking. Generosity.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Our field is always excited about the new or shiny object, emerging technology or hot leadership theory book. Would the employees not adapt to the culture without it? The learner needs to build trust in the new approach. Ironically, one of the most powerful things a CLO can do is to bravely and authentically say, “stop.”

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 20, 2023

According to LinkedIn’s 2022 Workplace Learning Report , “opportunities to learn and grow” are the most highly rated culture-drivers worldwide. Suggest a couple of books that focus on these topics in a business environment to supplement the five sessions. Creating a culture that supports AI-driven learning.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2018

As written about by Daniel Goleman in his book, “Primal Leadership, Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence,” the four skills that make up emotional intelligence include: self-awareness and self-management (personal competence) and social awareness and relationship management (social competence). by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Along with my Internet Time Alliance colleagues Jane Hart & Clark Quinn and several hundred chief learning officers, I attended the Fall CLO Symposium this week. It’s intended to underpin the dialog between CLO and executive management. Covey delivered the opening keynote on trust. On the surface, this looks great.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But the messy path can actually make you a better leader — if you create a culture of learning, vulnerability and growth, where you share lessons learned with others so they can avoid the same mistakes. By doing so, you create a culture that closes the great divide between leaders and individual producers. Own your messes.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2019

In the practice of leadership and among firms there have been many books and much talk about various leadership styles, including authentic, collaborative or even inspirational leadership to name a few. The post Putting Into Practice What We Preach appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

The idea of a group of people coming together to form systematic peer-to-peer support is an old one, but our contemporary understanding of the technique was outlined by Napoleon Hill in his seminal book, “Think and Grow Rich.” Essentially, they help employees make lasting relationships in an inclusive environment.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2020

Many organizations have publicly pledged to better weave diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and programs throughout all levels of the business in order to establish a more supportive, inclusive culture. And leaders, including those in HR and learning and development, play an increasingly critical role in workplace culture.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They wanted something more –– and it had nothing to do with the pop culture ideology of their millennial siblings. Musicians no longer see the need to have a contract from Capitol Records and authors no longer see the purpose of getting a book deal from Penguin House. The same is true for Generation Z and business.

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Docebo

JUNE 2, 2019

ATD 2019 , the world’s largest, most comprehensive event for talent development and learning professionals, is in the books and what an insightful four days it was in Washington D.C. Trust your gut instinct. The learning tech stack has exploded but you need the culture of continuous learning first.

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Learnnovators

MARCH 19, 2015

Dan is author of “ Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization ” and is currently at work on the follow-up book. He is Chief Envisioner of TELUS Transformation Office; a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance corporate culture, leadership, learning, work styles & collaboration practices.

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Limestone Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

The focus will be on developing an AI-ready culture that thrives on skills development, mindset shifts and continuous learning. PT: Credibility at Work: How Leaders Can Achieve More by Building Credibility Credibility is the linchpin of trust, both within and beyond your organization. Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 11 a.m.–12

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I really enjoy selecting the profiles and getting to read about these CLOs that go on the cover of all of our issues. Mike: We should also mention Liz Loutfi who also is one of our editorial team who works on CLO. Ashley: I mean, before I came to CLO I pretty much didn’t know anything about CLOs.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

From building an attractive company culture that empowers employees to take control of their learning experiences, to identifying and shaping company champions who will help grow the business, CLOs have to look at the big picture when it comes to corporate learning.

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Learnnovators

MARCH 19, 2015

Dan is author of “ Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization ” and is currently at work on the follow-up book. He is Chief Envisioner of TELUS Transformation Office; a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance corporate culture, leadership, learning, work styles & collaboration practices.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2018

Scalable learning doesn’t just mean reading more books, taking more e-learning courses or watching more videos. We need to start using data to drive a culture of continuous improvement. Only then will the rest of the organization trust us to become a strategic function that sits at its core.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2022

Does this time together serve to build trust, drive insights and increase true collaboration? When we are virtual in an organization, it’s harder to define and embrace a company’s culture. appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media. However, that time is spent through a screen, at a distance.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

Corporations of that era were characterized by top-down, command-and-control organizational cultures, and lines of reporting authority strongly mirrored those of the military. Executive women often express distaste for hierarchy and command-and-control organizational cultures. It was the era of “the man in the gray flannel suit.”

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Jesse Lyn Stoner and I wrote a book called “Full Steam Ahead!” A compelling vision creates a strong organizational culture where everyone’s interests and energy are aligned. This results in trust, customer satisfaction, an energized and committed workforce, and profitability. Treat their people right.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2016

To keep up with a continually changing workplace, leaders need to be truly collaborative partners and realistically commit to building and promoting a learning culture. Key is to build a learning culture based on compassion and companionship. A clear and dynamic vision becomes a part of the company culture and a way of company life.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2018

That takes strong leadership and a culture that embraces collaboration over conflict — particularly in the face of change, said Brenda Strong, executive vice president and director of agency resource optimization for Leo Burnett in Chicago. When he joined Leo Burnett he brought it with him as part of a broader culture change effort. “It

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CLO Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

In his book “Out of the Crisis,” W. The Third Way, creating a culture of experimentation and learning , enables organizations to grow and test new ideas in an atmosphere permeated with safety and trust. Organizations leveraging these practices foster generative, high-trust, cultures. Costly confusion.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2018

Being able to be in authentic relationships and show up in a way that could be trusted and relied upon by other people.”. Leaders must embrace an entrepreneurial approach and help to create a culture that fosters collaboration, candor, empowerment, influence and action,” she said.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 23, 2013

“To have effective virtual teams, two of the major ingredients for success are role clarity and trust.” ” Roderick Kramer, a professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, coined the term “swift trust” in his 2013 book, Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 5, 2017

In a writing career that has produced more than 60 books, I’ve worked with dozens of co-authors, including positive thinking guru Norman Vincent Peale, Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, and former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula. People sometimes ask me why I don’t write books by myself more often. I tell them, “This is how I learn.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

What about culture? Isolation and loneliness, overworking, lack of engagement, career disconnect, trust and manager resistance are all legitimate issues that executives must consider for employees to continue working remotely — both from the perspective of the team member and their manager. People’s homes are full of distractions.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

That’s why believable — along with able, connected and dependable — is one of the four cornerstones in the ABCD Trust Model featured in my book, “Trust Works! In “Trust Works!,” If you can’t be trusted to keep a confidence, your believability will plummet. Keep confidences.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2020

Critical view from L&D: “L&D/HR may not fully trust their employees to own the learning (bottom-up learning, where employees drive learning).”. It’s the equivalent of walking into the library and searching for a book when what you really wanted was to simply land on the pages you needed.”.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 30, 2019

She took on the brand new role of global CLO at Visa in 2018. She’s the author of two books, “The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today,” and “Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace.”. Karie’s also an entrepreneur.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2017

She grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong’s Communist movement. “My Tsai’s father, then a factory worker, befriended a librarian at his job who allowed him access to the factory’s library where he took the thickest book he could find. Ecolab’s culture is also customer-focused, Tsai said.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 27, 2018

Inside companies, engagement initiatives typically fall into one of these categories: competitive compensation, values-based culture, team collaboration, work-life balance, or learning and development. Some more recent culture-driven companies are operating at level 4, and some emerging companies are attempting to operate at level 5.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

A culture of resilience is “a form of psychological immunity” and key to bouncing back from the inevitable effects of adversity, says Tim Mulligan, chief human resources officer at Seattle-based Vulcan, the umbrella company for a number of investments and projects created by late Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. “It’s

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Mike Taylor

MARCH 6, 2019

This CLO magazine article is is yet another voice to add to the call for the need for continuous lifelong learning. “An Building a culture of continuous improvement, learning & development at work. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures is a deep dive into the influences that affect individual learning.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

He knew it was critical for him to develop a trusting relationship with his potential partner. During many initial discussions and exchanges, he tried to gauge the extent to which this partner could be trusted to honestly follow through with commitments and promises. Cultural Differences. Tight and Loose Cultures.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For learning to pay off for the culture and more importantly the business, it must become growth. So how can CLOs ensure investments grow leaders across cultures, levels, generations and skill levels in a way that directly benefits the business? This CEO couldn’t settle for learning for its own sake. Sure, learning is virtuous.

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