CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

As workforces continue to grow more diverse, human resources and learning and development teams have embraced language training programs, such as Business English and ESL, for multicultural employees. In a recent survey conducted by Wiley Education Services and Future Workplace,“Closing the Skills Gap 2019,” fewer than half of the 600 surveyed HR leaders reported spending $500 or more to upskill individual employees. The following scenario is based on an actual coaching engagement.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Coaching, whether it’s life coaching, executive coaching, or performance, skills or career coaching, seems inherently personal and humane. But what if your career or executive coach wasn’t actually a coach at all — or even human? Artificial intelligence made its way into learning and development with the start of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , and more recently, it’s been showing up in the coaching space. What’s the business case?

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2017

For another, when they do review and/or develop learning strategies, those strategies don’t always mesh well with business priorities. The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development’s 2015 learning and development survey offered a similarly dark picture: Twenty-five percent of respondents indicated their learning and development efforts were aligned with the business needs of their organizations. Leaders also can be valuable mentors and coaches.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

That very question was asked in a recent survey by Chief Learning Officer magazine of executives who are members of its Business Intelligence Board. 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.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

We had finished the formalities of our career and personal backgrounds and started to move into the business phase of our discussion. How does this firm make money, and can you explain the business drivers to me?”. He said, “Nobody from human resources has ever asked me about the business. Why do you want to know?” First, understanding the business strategy and corresponding drivers are fundamental to establishing a talent and learning structure and plan.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 23, 2019

The program matches experienced business leaders with military veterans and entrepreneurs committed to veteran hiring. Military Veteran Partners aims to help by supporting veteran businesses and employment opportunities. “We While veterans may have developed strong leadership skills during their time in the military service, many of the soft skills they have acquired do not transfer easily into the civilian workforce, Cloetingh said.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 4, 2019

Tried and true ways of doing business are being rapidly upended by new technologies, new competitors and sky-high customer expectations. What you can do: Proactively identify the competencies first-time leaders need to succeed in your company and your market sector. What you can do: Help your team build its change endurance. What you can do: Help leaders at all levels to harness the power of technology and data to propel your business forward.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

“Know thyself” is a principle inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi which dates its origins back to fourth century B.C. As a longtime internal learning and talent practitioner and now as an executive coach, I spend a good amount of my time helping people gain and increase their self-awareness. This phase of the developmental coaching process is a precondition to focusing the work of making mindset shifts and taking visible actions based on this new awareness.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 24, 2018

Our leaders are highly engaged in learning – they participate, they contribute, they strategize with us, they help define outcomes, and they ensure that the metrics for everything that we do are visible.” According to its LearningElite application, the successful link of learning strategy and business strategy starts with the engagement of its human resources business partners as liaisons with enterprise leadership.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As we all know, right now, years are happening in weeks: The pandemic has accelerated the shift away from physical stores to digital shopping by about five years. As strategies and business models evolve, organizations are realizing they need different kinds of leaders in this new era.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2012

CLO readers react to our question: Should coaching be for everybody or only for executives? We asked our CLO-Network, LinkedIn and Twitter followers: Should coaching be for everybody or only for executives? Will it carry the same weight or will coaches be able to develop the same relationship with their subjects if it’s a tool for the masses? Via CLO-Network discussion: Dave DeFilippo: My view is an emphatic yes. executive coaching).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 3, 2018

As I usually do at this time of year, I’ve selected five blog posts from the past year that seem to have had the most interest from readers. In that kind of culture, trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning…Whereas in a learning culture, responsibility for learning resides with each employee, each team, and each manager. Closing the Skills Gap by Improving Corporate Culture – July 20, 2017.

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Learning Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The digital workplace is truly disrupting all business, and learning is no exception. This implies aligning L&D strategy to business and learner needs: we need to ensure that there is a clear line of sight between L&D activity and organizational performance. Business leaders want learning programs to target relevant and measurable business results. They do not consider those programs complete until the results are achieved. Business transformation case.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 29, 2020

We know who completed the training, how long they took and what they clicked along the way. 5), consulting more deeply with the business (No. They don’t just know that you consumed an ad. Then, they did their best to correlate changes in business results to marketing activities.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Article they wrote for CLO mag: “Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer&#. If you don’t know the solution & need to network/collaborate to find it, that’s learning. How networks evolve: hierarchies are crumbling, rate of change much faster–we don’t know what’s coming next. What is the Chief Meta-learning officer to do when we don’t know what’s coming? Learner Population : We thought of businesses as walled off.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2017

In my mind, while this had optimized the various organizations — internal departments — it may not have optimized the overall business; all we had was optimized silos. At FedEx it’s a comprehensive look at the people, service and profit side of the business.”. Bennett and nine other individuals dissected the company’s structure, role and responsibilities across all divisions to see where there was duplicate work or service gaps.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 17, 2020

In the meantime, those of us involved in organizational and leadership development may find ourselves wondering how to intersect, in a meaningful way, with the emergency preparations going on in the businesses of the clients with whom we work. After all, training and development, culture change initiatives and succession planning understandably take a back seat as the business tries to figure out how it will maintain basic operations.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2016

There are brilliant scientists, visionary developers and accomplished educators — all highly skilled and educated professionals — who lack the skills to lead a coaching conversation or to collaborate cross-functionally on business strategy. Multiply this deficiency across every function in your organization, and imagine the impact these skills gaps are having on revenue attainment, customer satisfaction and employee engagement and retention.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 2, 2019

CLOs are tasked with creating and fostering a positive and continuous learning culture that links to business goals, engages employees and can be measured. Business goals and learning goals must go hand in hand. Before determining business goals, ask yourself: What do employees need to learn to have the most impact? Every L&D initiative, regardless of size, needs a clearly defined, measurable goal that links to a business objective.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 25, 2020

I started reflecting on my measurement journey, which started 20 years ago, when a chief learning officer recently asked me if his training was having an impact on the business. Curiosity about your business, how it’s doing, and how to improve it naturally leads to the need for measurement. Do students like my course? 2: Many organizations want to measure but don’t know where to begin. 6: Get your house in order and run learning like a business.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In relative terms, the progression is simple: The learner does research (in consultation with mentors) and decides on the credential that fits with their career aspirations, fills any minimum requirement gaps, registers for the exam, studies a prescribed curriculum and passes the test.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 31, 2020

So how do we even hope to build new relationships or strengthen existing bonds in these unprecedented times? The health and wellbeing of everyone around the world should be the foremost priority of every business and every individual, and we must support each other. Businesses, on the other hand, risk disappearing. So, what do you do with them right now? I recently updated my LinkedIn profile, for example, to let my network know I play and coach pickleball.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 9, 2010

Sahana Chattopadhyay Senior Consultant at Zensar Technologies What does a Learning Consultant do? What are some of the primary and secondary functions that a business expects from a learning consultant? I am interested in finding out if there are any defined set of tasks that a learning consultant would do to enable organizational learning. But there would still be some baseline tasks that a consultant would do in this respect.

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Elucidat

MAY 21, 2019

In one project alone, she saved the business two million pounds by thinking about and optimizing the time to learn. Simon: I know you’ve got some really strong opinions about what effects digital learning can have on learning programs—more generally, in the learning ecosystem. At the time I was working quite closely with the contact centers, who were servicing customers from a business perspective. We started in a business that had only 250 people.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2014

It''s critical for a CLO to have an eye on the changing landscape and enable new skill sets within the t Historically, L&D had been vested with the responsibility of keeping skills and knowledge of the workforce updated based on: Inputs from managers Current business requirements Skill-gap analysis Most of the training programs would be designed around "best practices" and explicit know-how gathered over the years.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 19, 2020

The health care environment, like all business environments in 2020, faces challenges never seen before. From cost containment to patient privacy concerns, questions about quality care and transparency to an uncertain future, there is a responsibility to address the needs of the business and health care consumer simultaneously. In today’s business environment, there is recognition that the person in charge can have a large impact on the company’s workforce and its outcomes.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

These businesses also enjoy higher revenue and profits, higher market share, and increased employee engagement and retention. That was the business case we were looking to confirm when researchers from The Ken Blanchard Cos. If a gap occurs in this link, initiatives are either inconsistent or not executed at all. But some companies don’t know where to start to create a lasting development plan that sets their leaders up for success.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 21, 2019

According to The Conference Board’s “The Business Value of Leadership Development” report, “One of the most influential internal engines to drive change is a leadership development program that sets out to nurture management talent that is entrepreneurial, enterprisewide and globally recruited.”. Done effectively, leadership development can have a positive impact on the business (sales, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency), ultimately leading to a beneficial ROI.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 3, 2013

The CLO is strategically positioned to focus on business objectives, outcomes and costs. Partnering with line of business leaders is a natural next step. Successful chief learning officers understand that business longevity is defined by an ability to innovate and adapt. They know that unless organizations can learn faster than the competition — and faster than the rate of change — they are destined to take a back seat in the marketplace.

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Degreed

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a CLO, I spend a lot of time talking to learning leaders from a variety of industries, going to conferences and trade shows, and reading industry research and blogs. It’s important to consider and embrace what’s happening in the marketplace, and organizations that do will see there is a big opportunity to elevate both their talent and L&D’s reputation to one that drives key business performance.

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Axonify

JANUARY 6, 2017

After all, they’ve got their finger on the pulse and definitely know their stuff! I think we are at a turning point in L&D, where CLO’s and other HR leaders now realize that this new world has become urgent and needs attention. This is what is so badly needed in the new world of “finding time” to do what’s most important. What do people want from their learning experiences? When we do this, we’ll have data to analyze about our learning.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The need for leaders at all levels in organizations continues to grow as the business ecosystem becomes more complex and competitive due in part to globalization, emerging technologies and an acceleration in the speed of disruption. On top of this, a growing number of baby boomer leaders are leaving their companies to pursue other noncorporate business or personal interests. 1 business issue. Connect with coaches and mentors who will support and help guide their development.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

I wrote recently that we need to stop promoting star players into management roles, but it begs the question of where do we promote them instead? Sports history is rife with star players who tried to coach and struggled , from Wayne Gretzky to Magic Johnson. And why put Michael Jordan on the bench as a coach when he’s most effective on the court? Harvard Business Review researchers found that 73 percent of workers left their employer to achieve career progression.

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Elucidat

JUNE 4, 2019

We talked about how to demonstrate business value early on to control groups, identifying the right business problems to solve, knowing when to push back the role of a learning team, and how to decentralize learning and development to support a more scalable learning culture. And, you know, an organization is now a much more fluid term than it used to be. How deep do you go to make that effective? Simon: Say you’ve got 200,000 people in a business.

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Elucidat

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

We take a dive into how to socialize learning design methodologies to get the support you need from your business, how to deploy learning across multiple languages and cultures, and how to spot exceptional learning designers at an interview. Having spent almost 30 years in sales and marketing, he knows what makes a great salesperson. Can you tell me a bit more about your role there and what you do? And I still love doing that, I just don’t get to do it as much as I used to.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

• Prioritizes gaps and needs to enable triage. Executives often describe business needs in broad terms, which is understandable given their strategic perspective. It’s critical, therefore, that the person responsible for designing learning programs to address these broadly stated goals fully understands the business context and can accurately translate the business need into tangible solutions that will deliver the expected results.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

Fully 50 percent of drivers reported that they planned to start a new business in the next five years, and many older or retired drivers were doing it to support their extended families. That led Uber to the idea of providing a college education and business training as a benefit to its most loyal team members. “It We are in a hot economy and the skills gap is real,” she said. It’s an extraordinary thing for a corporation to do for its employees,” Regier said.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2018

As the world becomes flatter through technological advances and agile processes, the traditional hierarchical structure for running a business is becoming an outdated method for achieving business success. The manager/employee relationship has become more of a business partnership than supervisor- and-subordinate execution of ideas and strategy. In short, leaders can no longer think they have the answer to every business problem their people face.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2020

Instead, prioritize learning objectives and be willing to do less in the name of excellence. When you get pushback from business unit leaders, be bold and point them to the data. The learner needs to exit the learning engagement with a memorable experience that reminds them of resources, strongly imprints a personal understanding of what they need to do differently and leaves an indelible memory of what can happen if they do or don’t follow up.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

How can the overwhelming amount of transformation happening right now lead to tech paralysis in a business? With these types of overwhelming growth, it can be very easy to become completely overwhelmed in the sense that you just don’t even know quite where to start. It’s the whole cliche of, “How do you eat an elephant? People don’t even know which bite to begin with, because a lot of it just looks so darn tasty! How do you define the “shock of the new”?

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