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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Erv Lessel

CLO Magazine

CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? Then I went to the United States Air Force Academy and got a fantastic education there, across every field imaginable from law to philosophy to electrical engineering to astronautical engineering. I was an astronautical engineering major.

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Servant leadership and AI: Agility and empowerment for the CLO

CLO Magazine

In order for a business to be sustainable, empowered employees must continually grow their technical hard and soft skills. Engineers have now created a device that can simulate human intelligence through the emergence of big data, cloud computing, artificial neural networks and machine learning.

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Meet the CLO Board: Tamar Elkeles

CLO Magazine

She is the former vice president of Qualcomm Learning Center, and was named CLO of the year in 2010. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? CLO: What lessons have you learned in 2020 that you plan on taking with you into 2021? CLO: How do you enjoy spending your time outside of work?

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Jim Woolsey is the 2019 CLO of the Year

CLO Magazine

In fact, before leaving his office the day before hopping on a plane to attend Chief Learning Officer ’s 2019 Fall Symposium in Chicago, where he would receive this year’s 2019 CLO of the Year award, he sent a note to his team about setting up the next step in evolution they will head at DAU. But his path was not entirely unusual for a CLO.

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No Status Quo for the CLO

CLO Magazine

There’s no playbook for becoming a CLO, and if there’s one simple fact that shines through from the hundreds of formal interviews and countless more conversations I’ve had with learning leaders, that’s it. Nearly half of current CLOs report they grew up through the L&D function. There is no status quo for the CLO.

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CLO perspective: Workforce transformation starts on the frontline

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It’s easy to trace a line from customer experience to business performance, and that line includes employee engagement. We’re already seeing a huge labor crunch of trying to get people into frontline jobs as businesses accelerate post-pandemic. Former SVP & CLO at McDonald’s Corp and CEO of XLO Global LLC.

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Focus on skills: Why apprenticeships are the future for business

CLO Magazine

However, for growing businesses, the benefits of apprenticeships are becoming apparent. Here we look at how businesses are benefiting from apprentices, and how they can grow in the future. Here we look at how businesses are benefiting from apprentices, and how they can grow in the future. Growing skills and businesses.

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