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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. Often, a mixture of both models can provide the most effective support for organizational talent. But it pays to know the key differences between coaching and mentoring to implement an effective program.

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Bright Corporate Outlook for Employee Development Doesn’t Mean You Need a Bigger Budget

Mindflash

Chief Learning Officer magazine recently reported that its Business Intelligence Board (BIB) of learning leaders is more optimistic about the outlook for 2011 than they were in 2010. Tap into social software apps. Need informal learning software? There are vendors selling very good software.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Support learning experiences in the workplace and concentrate on what it takes to meet organizational objectives rather than running workshops. Learning is social. Social software facilitates conversation. It’s about making the business better. Focus on improving the overall learning ecosystem. 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. One of many low-tech solutions in our book is for learning professionals to sit as close as possible to the teams they support. Enterprise 2.0 So, although the term enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

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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. My role at eFront is to lead the business development of the eFrontPro Learning Management platform throughout the global corporate marketplace.

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. My role at eFront is to lead the business development of the eFrontPro Learning Management platform throughout the global corporate marketplace.

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.