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What is the future of sales enablement?

CLO Magazine

I started my sales career immediately after graduating from college in 1995. At the time, most companies had extensive onboarding training for new sales representatives that included basic sales skills and product knowledge. Some industries are notorious for hiring entry-level sales and training them in the general profession.

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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Judy Whitcomb

CLO Magazine

CLO: How did you become interested in learning and development? Regardless of the organizations I worked or roles I’ve held (including business functional roles), I’ve always led with learning. CLO: What lesson(s) did you learn in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021? Little did I know, there were no mountains in Mt.

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Essential skills today’s leaders need to navigate ambiguity and activate talent

CLO Magazine

In today’s quickly shifting business landscape, leaders and employees are facing global economic challenges, rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and frequent corporate restructuring. What exactly is coaching? A leader with coaching skills may ask questions like, “What are you finding challenging with the new system?

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Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Business

CLO Magazine

The key to performance and growth is coaching, but what distinguishes high-growth coaches from their less effective peers? The best coaches — perhaps counterintuitively — create an environment of discomfort. This applies not only to biology, but to products, markets, skills and businesses.

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The Business Partnership Award

CLO Magazine

The Business Partnership Award is for learning departments that have partnered in a progressive way with business partners or external organizational divisions and functions such as the sales and marketing department or external customer groups to develop and deliver a targeted employee development program that supports the partner’s goals.

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Working amid Coronavirus: 3 ways coaching can help

CLO Magazine

While it’s impossible to maintain “business as usual” when circumstances change immensely on a global scale, there are still some things we do have control over. As business leaders and managers, it’s important that we acknowledge and empathize with the problems our teams face. You can always course-correct later.

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The power of language: Transforming global business expansion

CLO Magazine

In the rapidly evolving landscape of global commerce, mastering multiple languages has transformed from a competitive edge into a fundamental necessity for businesses aiming to expand their reach beyond local borders. Thank you for your support. The role of comprehensive language learning platforms, like Rosetta Stone , cannot be overstated.

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