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Skills Are the Currency of “The Expertise Economy”

CLO Magazine

Palmer is chief learning officer at Degreed, an education technology company, and the former chief learning officer for LinkedIn and former vice president of learning at Yahoo. CLO : What motivated you to write “The Expertise Economy”? CLO : What do you view as the most effective way to learn?

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Cybersecurity Training Often a Tangled Web

CLO Magazine

Damaging cybersecurity attacks have become an increasingly regular occurrence in business. In 2016, Yahoo Inc. The Evolution of Security Skills,” a report from the Computing Technology Industry Association, a nonprofit trade association, found only 21 percent of businesses completely satisfied with their current level of security.

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Creating an environment for effective learning measurement

CLO Magazine

I’ve spent most of my working career within the realm of professional education, focused on helping individuals achieve “yahoo!” In this ideal world, leaders continually ask questions about the alignment of organizational talent with the near- and long-term goals of the business and make adjustments in real-time. Changing the equation.

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Fired Over the Phone

CLO Magazine

As Susan Burnett, senior vice president of talent and organization development at Yahoo!, smiles outward from the cover of our current issue and on the front page of this website, news comes that Yahoo! According to various news sources, on the way out she sent an email to Yahoo!’s Today sees the release of a Yahoo!

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Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson

CLO Magazine

With additional L&D roles in the tech industry at Yahoo and consulting with Microsoft, Carson transformed training and cut his teeth building out L&D teams. “ ” The post Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media. I wasn’t looking for work. Nobody did.”

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Manage Remotely With Coordination, Not Control

CLO Magazine

If a high-tech firm like Yahoo has to call people into the office and put a ban on telework, many surely thought, how is any organization going to succeed in such an environment? Working remotely requires a change in leadership and management styles. Here’s what leaders need to know.

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The Tale of a Job Hunt

Allison Rossett

You write a blog for CLO?! Is this how they run their business?) They were interested in my instructional design model of choice and how it has been executed in real projects, as well as my extracurricular activities. (Oh, Oh, I’m quite familiar with ISPI. What does CPT mean? What will your CPT do for us?) The interview proceeded.

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