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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Judy Whitcomb

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CLO: How did you become interested in learning and development? I started as a journalism major in college. CLO: What lesson(s) did you learn in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021? CLO: How do you enjoy spending your time outside of work? Little did I know, there were no mountains in Mt. Travel is in my blood.

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Innovation and the CLO

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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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3 ways to build adaptive global workforce skills

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This puts employees at a disadvantage in building an agile, adaptive culture. In work published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, meQ’s research team showed resilience skill-building’s “dosing effect.” Culture even impacts our degree of openness to new experiences.

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Win with decency

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HBR measured companies’ empathy through ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception and public messaging through social media. Done well, vulnerability humanizes a leader and a company, drives innovation, eyes potential disruption and allows for a fail-fast culture. At the beginning of each quarter, buy 10 journals.

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Who leads your DEI function, and how do you support them from an organizational perspective?

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all announced they had hired new CDOs, according to The Wall Street Journal. s former head of inclusion and diversity, Christie Smith, was the third person to vacate the position, which she held for less than three years, The Wall Street Journal reports. Each new individual added to your culture will influence it,” says Wilson.

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Committee work as intentional professional development and learning

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Fourth, the chief learning officer must act as a champion for a new and nontraditional purpose of committees — one that permeates and champions an organization’s culture and success. Conduct brief polling throughout the committee’s tenure to assess the type and extent of learning to further support a culture of learning.

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Get Ahead of Toxic Culture

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It’s even worse when that pressure to act unethically comes from the culture promoted by the organization that provides your bread and butter. Calling the bank’s culture toxic during that time is an understatement. Now, few things in life are beyond repair in my mind, and I don’t count the Wells Fargo culture controversy among them.

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