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People Development: Stop Spending, Start Thinking

CLO Magazine

During the 2007 financial crisis, consulting and coaching clients often asked me: “Could we deliver similar value this year from half of the budget?” I often quoted the advertising adage that says that half your budget is always wasted, but you cannot be sure which half. Ironically, we could. He can be reached at editor@CLOmedia.com.

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Games in Corporate Training? Sacrilege Indeed!

ID Reflections

All of us remember our first toys that taught us to count beads, recognize shapes, build a tower, win a business park, spell words, solve crosswords, and so on. The rest twenty percent have been sent a mandate to take the program again—within the next three weeks. We learned! Very effectively indeed! Because we had fun!

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7 Best Practices for Maximizing the Value of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

KZO Innovations

In this post, two experienced ERG program leaders share insights on what it takes to foster ERGs and ensure success in the eyes of employees and business leaders. 7 Best Practices for a Successful ERG Program. Launching or building a program to maximize the value of ERGs or affinity groups isn’t easy. Budget performance.

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A Look at Learning’s Future

CLO Magazine

” Many see an opportunity as learning and development must “deliver smarter, more cost-effective learning transfer, not just learning programs.” Further, economic conditions are slowly returning to pre-crisis levels and continue to impact learning budgets. A strong competency program has overarching benefits.

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Josh Bersin, global industry analyst, on how Immersive Learning is poised to disrupt L&D

STRIVR

We’ve got all this stuff we’ve thrown at people at work — the HR programs, the training programs, the onboarding programs — and they can’t absorb it all. I’ve been through a lot of training programs, and I don’t remember any of the other ones. Those were really effective programs, but they weren’t scalable.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: As eLearning Ripens on The Vine

Learning Visions

So as designers, we – (and by this, I mean I) – need to be better prepared to create more complex training programs. So the future indeed may return us designers to flex those creative and intellectual muscles - if the budgets allow and the focus is on real performance improvement, not purely cutting training costs.

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How to Level Up Your Marketing, Web Design, and Photography with Consultant and Business Coach Jean Perpillant

LifterLMS

A good example of this specific messaging would be, “My program is for busy, homeschooling moms with more than two kids who are also living in a rural area.”. This is a concept author Seth Godin talks about. Jean and Chris also discuss some technical setups for course creators. Jean works with the Blue Snowball microphone.