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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. This won’t cost you anything, but it helps us offset the costs of paying our writing team.

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3 ways to build adaptive global workforce skills

CLO Magazine

In a groundbreaking global study, McKinsey identified three of the four key skill areas critical to employment and job satisfaction as the nature of work continues to transform the foundational skills of resilience: cognitive, interpersonal and self-leadership skills, with the fourth being digital technical skills.

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L&D, as global as possible, as local as necessary – finding beauty in the balance

CrossKnowledge

Over the last few years Jan Rijken, Learning Director at Wiley Crossknowledge and Visiting Professor at IE Business School, has published a series of articles looking at topics that are fundamental to any L&D department. Efficiency – cost saving at global level. Increase of local costs (short-term). Global control.

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Top 5 takeaways from running a global gamified learning program at KPMG

CLO Magazine

We were faced with an engagement and cost challenge, and a global scale of consequence. We piloted a gamified learning solution in Australia which proved the concept was a success before being funded for a global program. Make global assumptions about local conditions at your peril. Expect this!

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Is your global learning strategy truly global?

CLO Magazine

My first experience leading a global learning program was in Paris for a high-tech firm. I realized that a global learning strategy is highly complicated. At present, my team and I are creating a global learning strategy. The strategy’s key components are business goals; learning team mission, goals and tasks; and metrics.

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Brenda Sugrue Is the 2018 CLO of the Year

CLO Magazine

Brenda Sugrue, EY’s global chief learning officer. She said those principles are the anchor from which she makes decisions in her role as global chief learning officer for EY, a $35 billion professional services organization with more than 260,000 people worldwide. Photo by Brian Flaherty. Purposeful Design.

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Closing the skills gap is a modern fairytale

CLO Magazine

This metaphor, aptly named the Red Queen’s Race, may be the most accurate way to describe the challenge facing organizations in their effort to close the global skills gap. Technology is outpacing efforts to address the global skills gap. As their business needs change, so do the skills required to execute those strategies.

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