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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?

CLO Magazine

One of the major effects of the recession was a lack of investment in developing business skills for younger, midlevel workers. Coaching and mentoring programs are proven to increase productivity, morale and leadership. But it pays to know the key differences between coaching and mentoring to implement an effective program.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Social software facilitates conversation. Chatter, Jive, Socialcast, Yammer, Podio, and other social networking systems simplify listening in and joining purposeful conversations. It’s about making the business better. News always travels faster by the grapevine and now the grapevine is automated. Silos crumble.

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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

However, as the speed of business keeps increasing, learning pros are having to adjust their goals, and the skills they need to fulfill them. While there’s a lot of overlap between “social learning” and these enterprise 2.0 collaboration” seems like the most unlikely “critical” skill. collaboration.

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Meet the Team Part 3: Simon Birt, VP of Global Business Development

eFront

In this third part of our series of behind-the-scenes posts, we’ll be interviewing Simon Birt, a recent addition to the eFrontPro team, who is in charge of the product’s global business development. Without over-extending itself, I believe the company is well positioned for the next phase of business development.

Global 40
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Meet the Team Part 3: Simon Birt, VP of Global Business Development

eFront

In this third part of our series of behind-the-scenes posts, we’ll be interviewing Simon Birt, a recent addition to the eFrontPro team, who is in charge of the product’s global business development. Without over-extending itself, I believe the company is well positioned for the next phase of business development.

Global 40
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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon. Businesses are being transformed into social businesses. Businesses are being transformed into social businesses.