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The Truth About Leadership Skill Gaps

CLO Magazine

Few things in business ever stay the same for long. Organizations with leaders scoring higher in business management and leadership of people showed significantly greater net profit and ROA. Readiness for Business Challenges. That includes leadership skills. These are the “money skills” that correlate with a healthy bottom line.

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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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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

While increasing amount of concept work and the pace of change puts a premium on learning, the business of learning faces an incredibly difficult time. In the past few weeks, I've had some really eye-opening conversations about the state of Learning as a Business. But that doesn't mean you have a viable business.

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Who’s Leading Innovation?

CLO Magazine

Late 2008 not only marked the beginning of the Great Recession, but a pivotal moment when many CEOs began neglecting innovation — the engine that drove their organizations’ growth up to that point — to focus on cost-cutting, retrenchment and, in many instances, survival. That moment has passed.

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Free learning & development webinars for January 2022

Limestone Learning

Last year may have been unpredictable, but it sure was busy. PT: How Personalized Learning Drives Performance Business is moving too fast, and the workforce is too busy, distracted and geographically disparate for a one-size-fits all approach to learning and development. Here we are in 2022. Get used to typing that out!

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We Must Address the Leadership Strategy Mortality Rate

CLO Magazine

If something isn’t done immediately, the business will soon face crippling leadership shortages. Leadership readiness is low and declining, according to two consecutive Global Leadership Forecast studies from DDI — 2011 and 2015. Editor’s note: Author works for DDI.] Their story is vivid and sobering. you’ll need them?

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Accelerate the Leadership Engine

CLO Magazine

Employees were comfortable using online platforms for learning and conducting daily business. Although they work across different functions, it was critical the high potentials learn a consistent set of leadership skills and competencies rooted in the core principles that guide the business.