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How to protect your learning budget amid current uncertainty

CLO Magazine

Yet, given the growing uncertainty about the economic climate and possible recession, many organizations are reassessing their budgets across the board. History has often seen learning and development as one of the first budgets targeted. This makes stronger the case for maintaining (or even growing) your learning budget.

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The leadership coaching revolution is here

CLO Magazine

A recent industry research study conducted by Sounding Board and Chief Learning Officer, the 2021 Leadership Coaching Report , revealed more than 70 percent of organizations offer some type of leadership coaching, and another 22 percent would like to offer leadership coaching but lack the budget and resources.

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Designing a Learning Budget You Can Defend

CLO Magazine

And learning leaders must design budgets that deliver performance gains while being defensible and justifiable from a business standpoint. Before learning leaders can secure the funding needed to deliver on business objectives, they first need to make budget requests that are justifiable and defensible. Do Your Research.

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Motor City’s resourceful learning leader

CLO Magazine

It’s never about the technology,” said Iris Ware, CLO of the City of Detroit. Then in 2008, she launched her own learning consulting agency, where she worked with several Michigan organizations before being recruited as CLO by Detroit’s mayor, Mike Duggan. She later completed her Ph.D. I fell in love with HR,” she said.

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Speaking the language of your business peers through the right success metrics

CLO Magazine

If you can find the right metrics to show your senior stakeholders that learning is a clever investment and not just a cost center, then L&D won’t even be a consideration when budget cuts come. Communicating business impact It used to be two departments that had to worry when downturns loomed: marketing and L&D.

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Aligning learning: 3 essential skills executives need in L&D managers

CLO Magazine

52 percent report facing resistance when asking for budget approval. Timelines are met, budgets are adhered to and scope changes are managed more smoothly. It also includes data and analytics) how to find and analyze data and communicate the story data tells.

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CLO Competencies: The Path for Future Learning Leaders

CLO Magazine

They agreed that the future CLO should have experience in: strategic management, general management, knowledge management, leadership skills, and learning methods and concepts. This focus on closing gaps is again rooted in the ability of the future CLO to think strategically. Strategic Management. General Management. Leadership Skills.

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