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The Business Impact Award

CLO Magazine

The Business Impact Award is for learning executives who have implemented a significant measurement or evaluation program that has demonstrated exceptional business impact from their workforce development programs. Chris Hall, Assistant Commissioner, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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Eight Ways Learning Impacts Succession Planning

CLO Magazine

Succession management is one of the most important functions in business today. It ensures capable leaders are ready for critical roles, fosters business continuity, aids talent retention and can strengthen a company culture. Link the people strategy to the business strategy. What are the key business objectives and challenges?

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Your Brain on Learning

CLO Magazine

Gradually, vendors have begun developing learning products backed by this science, and companies have been paying attention, tapping into key principles to boost corporate learning initiatives’ impact. It should be the core of your entire learning strategy, not just one little cool product that you buy.”.

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The Value of a Virtual Academy

CLO Magazine

Prior to 2008, when it came to employee development, Microsoft held a subsection of course offerings in person twice a year in a centralized location in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and one in Asia-Pacific called Learning Weeks. Microsoft’s former CFO Chris Liddell wanted the finance function to be a value-added business partner.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Of course, you can’t look at learning in 2011 without mentioning mobile learning. Jay Cross talks about this in terms of Working Smarter : I don’t talk much about training or learning these days. approaches that leverage distributed content creation, social aspects as part of learning, collaborative learning and editing.

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Selecting the Best From the Rest

CLO Magazine

For example, Annette Thompson, senior vice president and chief learning officer for Farmers Insurance Group, emphasizes a continuous learning environment to enable the performance of employees and agents. Figure 1 details some of the advantages of instructor-led training, or ILT, online, mobile and social learning.

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Breaking through the skills taxonomy and doubling down on experience

CLO Magazine

Learning and development professionals are primed to deliver increased value to their skills-hungry organizations through being action-oriented business partners and consultants. If a skills taxonomy feels like an insurmountable hurdle, is the solution to train to seasonal trends or topical business demands?