CLO Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

When I began studying leadership in the 1960s, top-down leadership reigned. As time went by, I became more and more interested in a different style of leadership, —one I’ve been teaching now for more than 50 years. Three timeless leadership principles have risen to the top. Principle no. Principle no. You bet it would!

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 25, 2019

Servant leadership is all about enriching the lives of others, building better organizations and ultimately creating a world that is more caring and equitable. When you describe your corporate culture, is being of service to one another and the community a core value? Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership” by James W.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Executives directly impact your organization’s culture and success. Some may wonder why executives need further leadership development. After all, they’ve succeeded at multiple leadership roles as they moved up the ranks. Avoid offering an executive cohort of your regular leadership program.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There are multiple global events impacting the workforce’s intellectual and emotional ability to perform successfully. 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.”

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CLO Magazine

JULY 24, 2023

In a year already defined by tightening budgets and mass layoffs across a number of industries, companies may feel wary about directing their limited resources and energy into leadership development initiatives. Great leadership and being a great team member are not mutually exclusive.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

We recently sat down for a conversation with Kevin Wilde, an Executive Leadership Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Business. In 2007, he was named CLO of the Year. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? Chief Learning Officer: Where is your hometown? I was 16 years old.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

In 2020, she was recognized as CLO of the Year. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? CLO: What lessons did you learn back in 2020 that you’ve taken with you into 2021? CLO: How do you enjoy spending your time outside of work? Chief Learning Officer: Where is your hometown?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Should your organization have a CCO and CLO? Paul Hebert argues against organizations appointing a Chief Culture Officer. Hebert writes: …as soon as you codify, quantify and assign responsibility to something it ceases to be everyone’s responsibility…Culture is a defined as a set of shared values, behaviors, norms.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

Whitcomb is an award-winning HR, leadership and talent development executive with more than 20 year’s experience across various industries, including transportation, financial services and health care. CLO: How did you become interested in learning and development? CLO: How do you enjoy spending your time outside of work?

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CLO Magazine

JULY 7, 2023

Consider those stats in the context of a leadership development program — a more than $370 billion global market. Given the resources organizations are devoting to leadership development, not to mention the future stakes of the leadership pipeline, these programs must work. Two weeks later, Kyle had a coaching session.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Enormous amounts of time and energy are used to enforce a top-down approach of holding individuals and teams accountable for meeting deadlines, objectives and key performance indicators. It’s possible if you create a culture of accountability. Accountability is an inside job. That’s why language is important. Sources of accountability.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Each year, the Chief Learning Officer of the Year Award is presented to an individual learning executive who delivers the most exemplary development and guidance, is a strategic business partner and provides essential leadership to the organizational learning and development function. 20, when she was announced as the 2020 CLO of the Year.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We call it “Leadership 2.0.” The oft-cited leadership development model of 70/20/10 has been around since the 1980s, helping us to describe how leaders grow. Leadership is a fundamentally human endeavor. These elements can be blended in myriad of ways to support a whole-person approach to leadership development.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As such, here are five lessons my kids have taught me about leadership: Maintain an incessant desire for learning. Amid the never-ending meetings, lists and decisions, it’s easy to lose sight of why we do what we do, but leading from a place of enjoyment and fun cultivates a culture of creativity and a tight knit team.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

What’s the difference between a “training culture” and a “ learning culture ”? As the chart shows, in a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In that kind of culture the assumption is that trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Enormous amounts of time and energy are used to enforce a top-down approach of holding individuals and teams accountable for meeting deadlines, objectives and key performance indicators. It’s possible if you create a culture of accountability. Accountability is an inside job. That’s why language is important. Sources of accountability.

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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. The answer, of course, isn’t really about the IT setup.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

How does your organization define what “good” leadership looks like? Too often, there is a lack of alignment around an organization’s leadership model , a specific set of phrases that is designed to guide leadership behavior across a particular organization. Now think about a colleague in your organization. Question No.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

You may or may not have the ability to invest in leadership development right now, yet your organization needs effective leaders to stay competitive in this season of volatility. Why have traditional leadership development programs failed? Develop leadership by doing leadership. Leadership is a verb.

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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

MAY 10, 2018

Wondering why their best people succeed in one location and fail in another, firms habitually conclude that the challenge is cultural and provide leaders with “cultural skills” — generalizations at best and cartoonish clichés at worst, with little relevance to solving professional problems.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A strong leadership pipeline is critical to the success of any organization. One common strategy is to compare the performance of your leaders to industry-wide norms and then invest in development strategies to close any gaps. Pull together any available data on your culture, employee engagement, leadership behaviors and practices.

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Degreed

MARCH 10, 2022

To give your people the development they seek, and to create real business value for your organization, it makes sense to embrace a performance enablement strategy. You can enable performance by connecting what your people learn to ongoing, real-time and internal experiential learning opportunities in which they can explore new types of work.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As people actually lived at work because they were working from home — and were forced to integrate work and life at almost every turn — L&D professionals realized their organizations had to rethink the definition of good leadership. For many years, people thought about leadership as an individual endeavor.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

The truth is that the topic might not be new, but investment in leadership development continues to be critically important — and the need to spread the word persists. Organizational success is driven by strong leadership, and companies that invest in leadership training consistently appear on most-admired and best-of lists.

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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. Drive high performance and reward the winners.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Where creating a culture of openness, collaboration and high performance is a priority, we cannot turn a blind eye to uncivil behavior. Otherwise, we will find that while we have filled roles in the short term, we have weakened and eroded organizational culture for years to come. We should be clear about standards for civility.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In my first job, I was earning a bit more than Belichick did in his, but the common thread was our love of teaching, coaching and a desire to create an environment where the students could put their best effort forward to reach higher levels of performance. I feel fortunate to have both purposely and accidently found the CLO role.

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Degreed

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And for a career mobility program to really fly high, managers need to play a pivotal role, Degreed CLO Kelly Palmer said. Culture Through Partnership. The end goal is creating a rich and supported learning culture — one that integrates your skills, technology, and implementation strategies. Rewarding Connection. Learn More.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

While learning tech can improve outcomes and engagement, learning culture can unlock a step-change in productivity across supply chains or transform customer service and sales outcomes. Executives that build a learning culture transform learning from occasional to immersive. Leadership Alignment. Create Transparent Pathways.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Effective leadership is a transformational journey made up of four “spheres of influence.” These are self leadership, one-on-one leadership, team leadership and organizational leadership. The bull’s-eye in the middle — self leadership — is the heart of the four spheres. Today we know that’s just not true.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A holistic learning experience aims to provide people with a well-rounded learning journey that caters to all their individual needs in the areas of domain, technology, leadership, process and security aspects while contributing toward the overall success of the projects, business and the organization.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In an era in which issues around diversity, equity and inclusion have taken center stage, leaders must understand that having high levels of psychological safety is a prerequisite to achieving a truly inclusive culture, especially one that embraces the importance of diversity and elevates equity to a high priority. How do we do that?

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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. This sales manager had consistently been given feedback that he was extremely competent and had been given good reviews on his performance.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, that alone, is not the answer, because workforce resilience is actually a function of both individual traits and environmental factors — we’ll call that culture. You’ll need to cultivate an agile environment — a culture — to produce an agile workforce. And that requires a new leadership approach. Organizational justice.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

This article explores the unique aspects of developing R&D leaders and the implications for prioritizing specific skills and approaches in R&D leadership development programs. Common strengths they bring to leadership include: Deep technical expertise: This is one of the key strengths of R&D professionals.

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