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Holistic and personalized learning: The new paradigm in leadership development

CLO Magazine

This highly personalized approach meets each leader where they are and creates the perfect confidential environment for a transformational experience that is holistic by its very nature. Facilitating the alignment of leaders with mentors in an intentional relationship can be instrumental to a leader’s growth. Simulations.

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The ‘Mastermind’ effect: Leveraging resources to support upskilling and reskilling for the future

CLO Magazine

There are numerous ways to use internal resources to support learning, including coaching, mentoring, apprenticing, job shadowing and engaging in trial or stretch projects. Leveraging internal resources for skill building is one of the most important tools in the learning and development leader’s arsenal. Be thoughtful about the participants.

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Leadership is hard: A guide to navigating relatable leadership challenges

CLO Magazine

Here are some things I learned to ask for along the way: A mentor/coach/advisor. If the relationships are no longer appropriate based on organizational structure or you have outgrown the mentorship, find new role models and mentors you can learn from in other parts of the organization. Also, consider an executive coach.

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How to Avoid The 3 Mistakes L&D Leaders Make When Addressing Workplace Harassment

CLO Magazine

They might abdicate their leadership by never coaching or mentoring women, or by never meeting with women without a witness. First, many organizations are moving to prohibit confidentiality agreements that relate to sexual harassment or misconduct. But it’s a mistake to track only negative actions.

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Build a deliberately developmental organization through peer learning groups

CLO Magazine

Because they were admitting their vulnerability in a confidential session, trusting relationships began to develop, and they reinforced each other as they learned how to include their employees in the policy change decision-making process. Now they’re “trustees for the principles that guide process design. Start Small, Grow Large.

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When it Comes to Coaching, Messaging Matters

CLO Magazine

Given these realities, some form of coaching initiative, whether specialized one-on-one sessions or group training, may already be on most CLO agendas. It’s also important to know whether the individuals being coached feel comfortable sharing their experience or if there is an unofficial cloak of confidentiality in place.

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Let’s get real about unconscious bias

CLO Magazine

For our recruiting processes: nameless résumés, recruit in more diverse colleges, more mentoring, teach unconscious bias awareness to my team, increase diversity of recruitment team. Designated phone lines where comments can be confidentially left about a particular policy or occurrence have been another result.