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Designing a Learning Budget You Can Defend

CLO Magazine

And learning leaders must design budgets that deliver performance gains while being defensible and justifiable from a business standpoint. Before learning leaders can secure the funding needed to deliver on business objectives, they first need to make budget requests that are justifiable and defensible.

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Investing for Soft Skills: Build, Buy or Both

CLO Magazine

In contrast to such findings, however, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer described most money spent on personnel development as a “robbery” because “most companies are unable to transfer employee learning into changes in individual and organization behavior.”. Measuring it is also hard. He can be reached at editor@CLOmedia.com.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Ranking, tagging, top stories Tags link back to the tagger's BluePages profile IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life. I've not really seen good examples of business cases (future ROI) for using these tools. 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users. No anonymous users. Still, this is a somewhat uphill battle.

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Shift from learning to support in the learning technology stack

CLO Magazine

The connection of performance support with skill focus, together with its absolute impact on the business outcome, is quite evident, relevant and direct. Performance support is, in fact, a short run home to your company’s business objectives. Measured on-the-job performance and, therefore, directly related to appraisals and ROI.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

His words were dirty; mine are bad for business. However, MIT’s Andy McAfee warns that executives who hear social flash on scenes of Woodstock and other non-business activities. It’s better to talk about cost/benefit analysis or meeting specific goals than to speak of ROI. Tags: Informal Learning Working_smarter.