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Booming tech sends L&D back to basics

CLO Magazine

This technology boom may finally solidify our place as strategic business partners. For learning professionals to bloom through the boom, reexamining our root system and turning to the sun are needed. Turn to the sun Light illuminates what works and dispels what does not.

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Uncertainty is the key to unlocking opportunity

CLO Magazine

zooming down a sun-drenched Hawaii highway behind the wheel of a cherry red Ferrari 308 GTS after another successful caper with your best buds T.C. For business leaders, those words are also a potent leadership tool. 1 learning organization in the Chief Learning Officer LearningElite in 2017 and Jim being named CLO of the Year in 2019.

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Sun, Elite, and the future

Jay Cross

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. Sun is constructing a platform that makes the nuggets available; you can mine for them however you choose. Sun and ILA are developing what I call learnscapes. That’s no longer the case.

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Team Learning Up With Talent

CLO Magazine

If they aren’t solving clearly defined business problems, they aren’t adding value,” he said. To do that, learning leaders need to get much closer to talent leaders to help identify those business problems and figure out how learning can help solve them. This is where some CLOs fall short. Lean In to Learning.

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Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson

CLO Magazine

In 2007, Sun Microsystems hired Carson and eventually put him in charge of creating one of the first online social learning experiences and the game-based Sun Open Learning Center for system administrators. ” The post Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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Slow Evolution of Learning Solutions

Tony Karrer

This is similar to what I've been discussing in the Business of Learning and we are both citing Learning Tree's woes. Many vendors are looking forward to the day when CLOs are willing to pay for more of these things. Charles discusses the Reuters Institute of Technology which won a CLO Magazine Award for innovation.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

Of course, Learning Tree International's business is selling face-to-face courses, but most of us will have had the Learning Tree catalogue 'brick' of courses dropping onto our desks on a regular basis for many years. Old business models cannot be maintained forever. Learning Tree has been around since 1974.

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