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Stepping Up to the ROI Challenge

CLO Magazine

In his 2017 Chief Learning Officer article, “The Business Case for Leadership Development,” William C. And the authors of an October 2016 article in Harvard Business Review referred to leadership development programs as the “great training robbery.”. Phillips is the chairman, and Patti P. at $50 billion. But that seems to be changing.

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A season of firsts

CLO Magazine

At Chief Learning Officer , we found ourselves conducting our biggest event of the year, the Spring CLO Symposium, in a series of virtual rooms rather than at a sunlit resort locale. The global pandemic forced businesses large and small to adjust to a new and painful reality, kicking off this season of firsts.

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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

This is the question I will be answering in an ASTD-sponsored webcast on September 24, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. Four trends are making continuous learning an essential part of doing business today. Managers have control of their own learning, not corporate trainers, HR, or a CLO. What should be a manager’s role in employee learning?

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4 Questions to Ask When Building a Learning Strategy

CLO Magazine

Building a learning strategy is a key CLO mandate. To begin the process, CLOs and their teams can begin a dialogue with the CEO and his or her team to discuss the following four questions: How can we map learning to the CEO’s agenda? Describe any repercussions in the CEO agenda across the organization’s key lines of business.

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The Strategy Award

CLO Magazine

The Strategy Award is for learning executives who have demonstrated exceptional business acumen combined with forward-looking vision to develop and execute a comprehensive learning strategy that clearly aligns employee development with broader organizational strategy. DIVISION 1: For companies with 10,000 employees or more. Samantha Hammock.

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If We Had To Do It All Again

CLO Magazine

There are people from academia, people from business, people who come from the training organization or from a vendor organization. There’s no specific right way to become a CLO. That’s what makes the CLO role so vibrant. I pursued an undergraduate degree in business administration and then I received an MBA.

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The New-School Virtual Leader

CLO Magazine

Few people are natural business leaders. Further, the role of the business leader has changed. Businesses tended to be hierarchical in structure: those in charge instructed workers on what needed to be done, and they did as they were told. Technology also allows businesses to look further afield when recruiting talent.

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