CLO Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

As companies evolve to manage their growth, making sure the right people are in the right jobs should be part of the conversation. We focus on getting people into different jobs where they learn by doing, and those experiences build a foundation to become higher-level leaders. Great companies run on great talent.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

3 Their ecosystem of technologies, processes, and tools integrate seamlessly into the business, becoming interwoven with the fabric of the organization. Organizations that lack this connective tissue between a core learning entity and dispersed resources often experience misalignment in learning as well as negative business results.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 3, 2023

If your organization isn’t offering help to grow your relationship skills, or personalized coaching and mentoring to support your development, then it’s time to look elsewhere. According to the data, coaching and mentoring are increasingly seen as fulfilling a growing corporate need for greater personalization.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 5, 2017

Working within a mentoring relationship is a powerful way for individuals to grow their careers. Whether young people are learning from seasoned pros, or career achievers are passing along their wisdom, mentoring offers a host of benefits: increased knowledge, new skills, elevated energy levels and career satisfaction.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

According to McKinsey and Company , 87 percent of business organizations are currently suffering significant skill gaps, while research from the National Skills Coalition says one-third of today’s workers lack the foundational digital skills needed for the future. I nvest time and money for development.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 23, 2019

Dutter serves as a mentor in the program, established through a partnership between Military Veteran Partners and B2B sales training company Empire Selling. The program matches experienced business leaders with military veterans and entrepreneurs committed to veteran hiring. The jobless rate for all veterans dropped to 3.9

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Ekpedeme “Pamay” Bassey, CLO of The Kraft Heinz Co., Now, after coming on board as CLO for Kraft Heinz in Chicago last December, Bassey is reimagining the company’s approach to corporate learning. You don’t want to be sitting in a room, bored to tears because you’re listening to something that’s totally irrelevant to your job.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Cultivating talent from the ground up Today, talent concerns are a leading consideration behind organizations’ decisions to relocate and open new business sites. The program is also a huge win for businesses. For one, the program helps participating business leaders build diversity into their workplaces and promote equal opportunity.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

During the conversation, she mentioned she told her head of recruiting that the posting duration for jobs was getting ridiculous. But approaching the process strategically and with proven practices can set your business up for long-term success. Months ago, I sat down with a CHRO of a mid-size professional services firm.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

I started my career in higher education, first at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, then Yale School of Management, because I believe that higher education is the gateway to prosperity. I loved being at the intersection of teaching, research and business. Everyone has a different journey to CLO.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The World Economic Forum estimates that new technologies will have replaced 85 million jobs between 2020 and 2025, while simultaneously creating 97 million new ones. What’s more, the modern business landscape is becoming increasingly volatile and unpredictable. Maybe they’re not running quite fast enough?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Traditional mentoring was one older expert grooming a younger one for a specific role. Technological influences, millennials and a global workforce have all left their mark on the practice, helping to create a new mindset about what mentoring is today. People meet online, in groups and possibly never in person.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2022

She saw it as a chance to reimagine corporate learning and how it can be used to meet the constantly evolving needs of the workforce and the business. Her innovative approach to training and relentless commitment to the needs of her learners is why Chief Learning Officer named Tedrick its 2021 CLO of the Year. She always said yes.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 14, 2024

My first sales job was in an industry with high attrition—selling copiers and fax machines. According to FitSmallBusiness , “47 percent of sales representatives leave their job because of a poor training or onboarding experience.”Providing Businesses can save $89.07 Businesses can save $89.07 Sales is a challenging job.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2023

The growing use of technology across job functions is designed to streamline processes, boost productivity, improve customer service and reduce costs. Unfortunately, it can also discourage job seekers from applying for positions because of concerns that they lack the right tech skills. And it’s not just in tech-specific roles.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Being labeled a “failure” is typically something that no business leader wants tarnishing their name and reputation, something to be avoided at all costs. Put reverse mentoring schemes in place — a practical way to help senior people learn while creating a safe environment for more junior employees. Frame it (and reframe it).

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

But how can businesses deliver effective upskilling that is scalable and accelerates skills acquisition across their entire workforce? Sabrina is spearheading a mentoring program at Encompass to help with skills advancement, and there is an undeniable demand for it. Otherwise, they risk extinction.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Job posting durations are growing in some of the most in-demand fields, and 2020 freshmen enrollment numbers are down 22 percent compared with 2019 numbers , with the expectation they’ll continue to drop year-over-year. Almost certainly, you were guided by a real-life conversation, whether it was with a manager, a mentor or even a stranger.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2016

Despite the threat of an economic slowdown, the demand for people with exceptional abilities and transferable skills will exceed the supply for years to come, particularly in today’s dynamic and increasingly global business environment. Think about it: The retirement of baby boomers means job openings. What’s a CLO to Do?

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2021

With ongoing uncertainty around new variants of COVID-19, business and community reopening and the broader economic recovery, employers are faced with a troubling paradox. On the one hand, job openings have reached a record high, with more than 10 million open roles. Every business or organization is only as strong as its people.

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Learnnovators

MAY 23, 2021

Before joining APPLY Synergies he was with Microsoft , where he was Director of Learning Strategy and Evangelism, a global business at Microsoft Corporation featuring innovative learning products that help individuals and organizations learn more and go further using Microsoft technologies. However, that’s not the case today.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

The response rate was low because the managers, still working remotely, were distracted and busy. Even some award-winning training programs are missing the critical element that will ensure program success and demonstrate organizational value: Level 3 data connecting on-the-job performance to program results.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

All my life, I’ve had the good fortune of being surrounded by leaders who are lifelong learners: my parents, my wife Margie, old college friends, business colleagues and so on. Some read, some listen to podcasts, some learn from mentors. In the past, the typical warning in business circles was, “Don’t get close to your direct reports.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

On the one hand, we have digital disruption: new tech innovation disrupting the business model of incumbents — think Netflix, Uber, Airbnb, Spotify, WhatsApp, Amazon. There are implications on the business side. Today’s business leaders need to see addressing social challenges as at the heart of their job description.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

One of the biggest challenges associated with mentoring programs is keeping executives and employees invested. When she was hired in 2013, one of her first mandates was to breathe new life into the mentoring culture. That’s one of the key benefits of formal versus informal mentoring programs, she said.

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Allison Rossett

MARCH 19, 2012

This is the tale of a job hunt that I began in November, 2011. Even more time was spent searching for the ideal job openings and filling out the specialized online applications. A bit more time was spent reaching out to a network of colleagues and mentors. You write a blog for CLO?! Is this how they run their business?)

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

During the global pandemic, redeployment of staff to other parts of the business became an overnight reality. Already reeling from shifts to remote work, business interruptions and disseminated service sectors, difficult conversations about dynamic talent management requirements had to take place.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

Though all training may look like “training,” the value propositions that underlie different training initiatives differ dramatically in their relevance to current business needs and goals. In a fire department, that training is vital to effective business success. Like ducks, such programs look a lot alike. Value proposition No.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are numerous ways to use internal resources to support learning, including coaching, mentoring, apprenticing, job shadowing and engaging in trial or stretch projects. Using groups to upskill for enterprise sustainability, we can look to do as Theodora (Theo) Lau suggests and treat “skilling” as a business investment.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Making employees feel valued is far harder, of course, when those teams do their jobs out in the field, not at HQ where managers can stroll by and easily offer guidance or support. Look for apps that include communication and mobile learning features that allow deskless workers to surface ideas and mentor and support one another.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As a society, we see the need for reskilling as technological advances and automation make existing job roles obsolete and create new job roles that didn’t previously exist (e.g., Its follow-up report , published in January of this year, identifies specific job clusters in which the demand for reskilling will likely be highest.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2020

The company is conducting business in a manner to best protect their employees and visitors from possible exposure.”. As this coronavirus hits its peak and then flattens, businesses will need to be ready to get people back to work ASAP. Rewrite HR policies to describe what your employees will do differently on the job.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2017

The workforce includes more women — especially in traditionally male professions — and business leaders are changing workplace environments to be more flexible, collaborative and caring in a calculated effort to attract and retain the best talent, both male and female. First, senior women may be hard to find.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

Think of book clubs, guided self-learning programs, mentoring and job shadowing. These might include built-in rubrics, reflection tools, job aids and progression assessments. It describes behaviors learners will take in the workplace, as a result of learning — actions that will positively impact a business measure.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In that kind of culture, trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. In a learning culture, learning happens all the time, at events but also on-the-job, facilitated by coaches and mentors, from action-learning, via smartphones and tablets, in social groupings, and from experiments.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

business owners and equip people with the skills needed to succeed in the modern workplace. That’s why Facebook made a pledge earlier this year to train 1 million people and small businesses in the U.S. In 2017, the company launched Jobs on Facebook, which is reported to have helped people find more than 1 million jobs.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The reality is far more complicated, according to a survey of the Chief Learning Officer Business Intelligence Board. Let’s start with that third assumption: Learners hold the cards in the new business environment. Not even CLOs hold the keys (Figure 1). Given the nature of CLO jobs, that finding is not surprising.

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