CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

No longer confined to managing training programs leading learning and development teams, today’s CLOs are integral to broader talent management strategies that drive organizational success. Let’s delve into the expanded role of the CLO and how it intersects with talent management. This alignment is not a mere correlation.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

CLO: How did you become interested in learning and development? CLO: What lesson(s) did you learn in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021? CLO: Through the various leadership positions you’ve held during your career, are there any personal skills or skill sets that you’re especially proud of growing or developing as a leader?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s possible if you create a culture of accountability. Therein lies the key to creating a culture of accountability: encouraging individuals to take ownership of their results and the consequences of those results. All these actions, intended to enforce accountability, have the opposite effect. Accountability is an inside job.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

There’s a whole different mindset among the workforce about work/life integration and corporate culture. Culture eats strategy for breakfast” While these strategies are key; they alone won’t attract and retain female talent. Strategy focuses on resourcefulness and skillfulness, while culture defines engagement, passion and execution.”

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The only thing holding companies back from learning at the speed of change is their organizational culture which, for many, is a barrier to learning. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

Coming from a small college town in Massachusetts, my arrival in Kenya was a culture shock. Only later would I appreciate that there is a name for this experience — reverse culture shock. Understanding reverse culture shock and its effects may also be the best way to prepare for post-pandemic work and life.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

With employees today viewing learning and development opportunities as a key benefit of their job — and willing to vote with their feet if those opportunities are not existent or meaningful —organizations must embrace and deliver on a culture of learning to attract and retain employees. The alternative is costly.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

The very real and immediate need to address the technological requirements of forced online work options grabs the attention, but finding IT solutions without addressing the cultural and emotional impact of COVID-19 on your employees is, at best, a half-baked quick fix. Unlike the individualistic culture that drives resistance in the U.S.,

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 17, 2023

But is the training being done in the most effective way to bring about lasting change? Inclusive cultures require much more than isolated training — and, unless you take the time to consider how you will turn insight into action, your efforts could be doomed to failure.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

The CLO Role. Given these conclusions, the CLO is in a great position to make a difference in innovation. Because innovation comes from employees, and not necessarily investment in research and development, the key is to make sure the culture is created to spark, support and facilitate innovation. So, what can the CLO do?

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2020

Reboarding is about your employees learning new cultural norms, a set of rules and guidelines about how to interact with people, equipment and space to be successful. Take time right now to evaluate your current cultural norms to decide new ones upon reboarding. It’s not the same anymore; the TV show is new.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s possible if you create a culture of accountability. Therein lies the key to creating a culture of accountability: encouraging individuals to take ownership of their results and the consequences of those results. All these actions, intended to enforce accountability, have the opposite effect. Accountability is an inside job.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

You can hire all the underrepresented individuals you want into your organization; if you don’t have a culture that fosters inclusion and creates belonging, you’ll see a revolving door — for everyone in the organization. Psychological safety To foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, organizations must prioritize psychological safety.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I attended the CLO Symposium with my ITA colleagues Jay Cross and Jane Hart. And the keynotes that I saw were in synch: Stephen Covey talked about the need for trust and Jon Katzenbach on how to build culture were both excellent, as was Dan Pontefract’s story on making collaboration intrinsic to Telus.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this article, we will explore the role of a CLO in harnessing technology to revolutionize L&D initiatives and drive organizational growth. As technology continues to reshape the L&D landscape, the role of the CLO has evolved from a mere facilitator to that of a strategic driver of organizational growth.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 18, 2021

On the surface, these objectives may seem like they’re only aligned with talent acquisition, culture or people analytics. Rather than siloing these objectives onto separate teams, CLOs and CDOs can accomplish more by working together, while also measuring and tracking progress at the same time.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Even with the lingering effects of anesthesia, my eyesight was clearer. Where creating a culture of openness, collaboration and high performance is a priority, we cannot turn a blind eye to uncivil behavior. Team culture is a silent sentinel that can alienate or reject a new hire perceived as a threat. My mind was clearer, too.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And yes, these are certainly all effective strategies to attract and retain talent. It turns out, however, that providing on-the-job professional development and skills training is one of the most desirable, effective and feasible strategies organizations can implement to improve company culture, engagement and employee retention.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

As a chief learning officer, if you want to foster cross-departmental collaboration and teamwork, you must build and nurture a safe, transparent culture in which information can flow freely. Your to-do list Here are five ways to encourage open, healthy communications throughout your organization as a CLO. Your areas of weakness?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The biggest workplace hurdle to identifying and assessing development and training needs is lack of a “learning culture.” Organizational culture is defined as the values, assumptions, beliefs, behaviors, and norms of the enterprise, sometimes referred to as the organization’s DNA. allocation of time and effort, morale, and engagement.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

To move beyond shallow promises and toward a truly inclusive culture, it needs to be understood that the real work happens after someone is onboarded. Even if L&D opportunities are expanded and tuition reimbursement programs are reformed, there will remain the underlying issue of company culture. But there’s a huge caveat.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Companies around the world are making diversity and inclusion a top priority but few are achieving actionable change within their culture. The feedback from these trainings has been positive so far, as 88 percent said it was an effective use of their time. Jennifer Westropp, Relativity. But these stats only tell part of the story.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2019

What We Can Learn From Cultural Awareness . Cultural awareness is a familiar term in global companies. One of the key ingredients behind success in cultural awareness is exposure. The more employees collaborate across differences and cultural divides, the more trust and appreciation they build. Creating Deeper Bonds.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

While this marked the initial stride toward meeting the evolving global learning demands, it also illuminated the imperative for nurturing a robust learning and talent management culture across all facets of the organization.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2024

Organizations that invest in effective learning leaders equipped with top skills gain a competitive advantage by promoting continuous learning and skill enhancement among their employees. Effective communication skills are also vital for learning leaders to articulate visions, goals and expectations clearly and concisely to their teams.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

Further, internal peer groups often used by diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging teams — ERNs — support both DEIB and HR initiatives such as engagement, onboarding and retention by providing much-needed social connections, peer-to-peer awareness, networking and cultural connection to organizational values.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Group learning has long been recognized as an effective approach to learning and talent development. However, many organizations underestimate its true power in fostering relationships, collaboration, culture and inclusion in the workplace. First, it can provide the catalyst for culture change. But there are tradeoffs.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

So, as someone who is now officially wise, I’m left to think about my own learning as I enter this new decade as a CLO. That was followed by the post-merger integration process, which included cultural assimilation, financial synergies and building a new team to set the stage for the combined organization.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

This puts employees at a disadvantage in building an agile, adaptive culture. Digitized resilience is relevant and accessible to global workforces and has proven to be learnable with improvements benefiting from the “dosing effect,” meaning that improvement in resilience is commensurate with time spent learning.

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Training Orchestra

JANUARY 9, 2024

The title of Chief Learning Officer (CLO) may not be as widely known as other C-suite members, but its importance is perhaps more significant now than ever before. While the CLO acronym had been used previously for other roles, Kerr’s title was the first of its kind. We’ll explore this fascinating area below.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Nowadays, learning leaders are also responsible for things like building and championing strong company culture, establishing a strong talent pipeline and are very involved in decisions regarding technological advances. Upskilling is also a more cost-effective way of developing talent because it costs more to outsource and recruit.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Competence hierarchies are formed as people rise in leadership ranks within organizations based on their competence to most effectively perform at the next level. Ensure leaders understand the career aspirations of employees so they can effectively coach and develop them toward those roles.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 31, 2024

There are social, environmental, political and cultural changes. That calm demeanor and positivity are critical to ensure we can make appropriate decisions, rationalize outcomes and understand the cumulative effect of any actions taken. The impacts of those advancements are multifold. The impacts on the workplace are still evolving.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When these intellectual and psychological challenges are unsupported by leaders, 41 percent of Gallup poll respondents identified wanting to change organizational culture which included “better managers.” Equally important, leadership empathy helps improve morale and organizational culture.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Becoming a learning enterprise is a culture-change journey. They also continually monitor the effectiveness of the processes and systems they use. Their attitudes toward learning and failure, how they react to bad and good news, and the time they spend debriefing and learning all set examples and seed the culture.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Effective leadership is a transformational journey made up of four “spheres of influence.” It comes first because effective leadership starts on the inside. It comes first because effective leadership starts on the inside. Both relationships and results are necessary for a thriving, high-performing organizational culture.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

Studies have shown that individuals who possess adaptability and resilience are more likely to cope with change and uncertainty effectively. Research found that individuals with higher emotional intelligence tend to be more effective in leadership roles, display better interpersonal skills and exhibit higher levels of job performance.

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