CLO Magazine

JUNE 4, 2020

Meeting these objectives often require resources both internally and externally — budget, learning content, time, personnel and leadership buy-in are also key components. When uncertainty is abundant but budget is not, tensions can multiply exponentially. Do we believe great training can provide an ROI?

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In ROI Institute, we are uniquely positioned to see what types of programs executives want to have evaluated to the impact and ROI levels and the success of those evaluations. We’ve never had an executive ask for an ROI study for technical training. Soft skills are not “nice to have” when we have the budget.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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. Challenges and opportunities.

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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

MAY 10, 2023

It’s everyone’s favorite time of year — budget season! As many leaders are in the throes of planning for the start of a new fiscal year, budget requests will inevitably come alongside budget reductions. Minimal cost, maximum ROI!

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2017

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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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And finally, it is possible to show the value of coaching at the impact and ROI levels. This usually means evaluating coaching programs to the impact and ROI levels. Taking a few straightforward steps can ensure coaching delivers value and eliminates the probability of a negative ROI. Challenges. New normal opportunities.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

So, as someone steeped in metrics and analysis, she decided her team was going to measure the ROI of the function to prove the value of the function to the company. However, executives neither needed nor wanted ROI data. Not one member of the executive team cared about the ROI of the L&D offerings. Yet, they were.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

These measures could include increasing retention, meeting the budget or reducing team member complaints. Where do you want to end the evaluation as you move through the value chain from reaction to learning, application, impact and ROI? If this is the case, the starting point is those measures for the participants (team leaders).

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 6, 2018

When you think about ROI, you likely think of businesses and service organizations. In recent years, however, there has been a rise of ROI use among nonprofits, non-governmental organizations, governments and healthcare. How are these organizations using the ROI Methodology to show the value of their projects and programs?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The best way to survive and even thrive in the current economic downturn is to actually measure the impact and ROI of your major programs to ensure that these programs deliver the business results that executives and sponsors want and need. Forecasting ROI before implementation will be a common approach. The new normal.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

As presented in the figure below, success follows a chain of value, a classic logic model that forms the basis of most evaluation models, including the ROI Methodology. This will decrease the ROI significantly. Designing virtual learning for impact and ROI. The value chain for virtual programs.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

A renewed focus on business value Given the current climate, business leaders are hyper-focused on ROI and business value with 44 percent changing their purchasing decisions due to rising costs. The post Speaking the language of your business peers through the right success metrics appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Travel was stopped, learning budgets were slashed and many learning functions survived by quickly flipping as much content as possible into an e-learning format. Success depends on whose ROI you are interested in. It also explains why learning budgets are often the first to be cut when there is a recession.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

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. ROI, market share, shareholder equity, etc.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

As a result, the statistical average of a successful internal, often cross-functional, mastermind group could characteristically demonstrate close to 5 percent in revenue growth and an increase in profitability of almost 20 percent — that’s significant ROI. Creating a peer group program does take a bit of planning, budgeting, and buy-in.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Lack of budget for coaching activities was third, at 38 percent. It’s difficult to get support from senior leaders if you’re unable to measure and report the impact of coaching and it’s impossible to get budget approval for coaching activities without support from senior leadership. One could argue these challenges are all connected.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This year is going to be tough for many organizations, and, during times of financial difficulty, L&D budgets are traditionally among the first to be cut. However, right now the world is changing so fast that the reduction in budget simply cannot be matched with a reduction in development offerings. So, we need to get smarter.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This trend is seeing early adopter organizations in the vanguard of a shift to rebalance the annual learning budget toward developing technical experts in nontechnical capabilities. Technical departments are given their own budgets to focus their experts on getting more technically competent.

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Lambda Solutions

JUNE 14, 2020

Evaluating Learning Analytics and Measuring ROI. Data Points to Prove the ROI of Learning Analytics. Evaluating Learning Analytics and Measuring ROI. It’s the most recognized method of evaluating a training program’s ROI. Adding ROI to Kirkpatrick. Maximizing ROI on Your Training Investment.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 24, 2017

It’s time to take the CLO role to a higher level, not just on the organization chart, but in terms of influence and organizational accomplishment. Chief Learning Officer ’s “2015 CLO Measurement and Metrics Survey” indicated that 36 percent of CLOs are using business impact to show the value of learning to the broader enterprise.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 1, 2019

Phillips is president and CEO of the ROI Institute. Think about the logical chain of value from any learning program: level 1, reaction; level 2, learning; level 3, application; level 4, impact; and level 5, ROI. An increasing number of executives and sponsors are requiring a forecast of impact or ROI before the program is implemented.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We had to create a business case and bring sponsors along the journey of visualizing the art of the possible and embracing the risk of failure and possibly no ROI. But as the project grew, it was clear we needed a more formalized budget. How do you build a business case and gain support and funding for a solution that is unproven?

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CLO Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

You’re likely managing multiple budget lines — already predestined for leadership development, DEI investments and targeted upskilling — while each stakeholder you’re working with is expressing their desire for preferred vendors in each space. It’s also causing budgets to balloon.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 10, 2018

Phillips is president and CEO of the ROI Institute. In 2010, the ROI Institute conducted a major study sponsored by the Association for Talent Development to understand the executive view of learning and development investments. 1 measure of L&D investments preferred by executives is business impact, followed by ROI.

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Limestone Learning

MARCH 28, 2024

PT: The Relationship of the CLO to the CFO Influencing the CFO is paramount, particularly for the Chief Learning Officer (CLO), whose initiatives often face scrutiny during cost-cutting measures. Chairman, ROI Institute and former L&D manager and HR executive, who spends much of his time working with top executives, including CFOs.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Due to constraints in budget, scale and timing (among other factors) , executive education models are occasionally forced to distill months’ worth of information into a few hours of lessons, which could potentially result in crash courses that are sweeping in scope, but are less practicable when it comes to leadership skills.

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Nomadic Learning

AUGUST 23, 2018

That doesn't mean it doesn't have a critical role to play, but as we point out in our article Beyond the Classroom in CLO Magazine, applying AI in the right context and with the right data is critical to success. but in the end, ROI remained an illusive concept, as the data generation means did not produce the results we needed.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 26, 2009

Yes, your budget is being cut, but it's way safer to propose on-going financial investment in a tried and true method than it is to propose shifting budget to new methods. What should a VP Learning / CLO present to the executive team? ROI and Metrics in eLearning eLearning Technology. Use EVA instead.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 24, 2017

Some CLOs see the CFO as being increasingly involved and unwelcome, requiring approvals for expenditures that previously did not require approval. In fact, the CFO usually has approval for the budget before the CEO approves it. For more than 100 years, CFOs have been using ROI for capital expenditures.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 2, 2019

L&D is fast becoming a business imperative, but not all C-suite peers necessarily see value when hard measurement of ROI has been lacking. CLOs can only stress that continuous workplace learning is a must-have, not a nice-to-have, when they can prove an impact on business outcomes. Simulate critical thinking.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The price of oil is causing uncertainty and reducing budgets in oil producing countries. This is a good time to reflect on how executives see the learning and development budget. Learning needs more budget not less. The gorilla is willing to listen to us if you have data that shows these programs delivered a positive ROI.

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Degreed

JANUARY 27, 2021

Keeping people’s skills in sync with the constantly changing world of work is the biggest talent challenge of our time,” according to Degreed CLO Kelly Palmer. One way to drive positive learning ROI is through thoughtful content curation. Upskilling: Your Path to Workforce Retention.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 27, 2008

Norm Kamilkow, Mike Prokopeak, and the CLO staff must have a crystal ball back at the office in Chicago. The CLO Symposium that just ended at the Hotel Del Coronado focused on the perfect topic for times of economic meltdown — Measuring Success: Learning’s Positive Impact on Business. ROI is the answer.

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Disprz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Once, the CLO confronted her as despite allocating the desired budget, he couldn’t see an improvement in employees’ performance. This helped her in providing the ROI for the L&D budget. Ruth, an L&D manager, used to invest several hours into designing effective courses.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2017

The previous Business Intelligence column presented an instrument designed to assess the extent to which the CLO and the learning enterprise add value to the organization. The 30-question instrument detailed specific areas that define this critical role of the CLO. ROI has become an integral tool in the learning enterprise.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2016

This starts by setting objectives at different levels for reaction, learning, application, impact, even ROI when needed. Finally, for programs that are very expensive, important and strategic, the evaluation should be pushed to ROI (Level 5), usually in 5 percent of programs. Phillips is president and CEO of the ROI Institute.

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