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.

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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? Chief Learning Officer: Where is your hometown?

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

COVID-19 created a new paradigm for the way we work—and organizations across the globe are stepping back to redefine what work means for their employees and culture. There has never been a more urgent call for human-centered leadership. We have learned teams can connect and accomplish goals working virtually when we are intentional.

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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. Plus, trial and error can take a long time and cause suffering for leaders and their teams. And scared. Connection.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Under the umbrella of The Learning Forum, CLO LIFT , a group of learning and development leaders, is actively addressing persistent challenges straining the learning and development industry. CLO LIFT’s values group is taking on this particular challenge as time, by orders of magnitude, is the largest investment that goes into learning. “We

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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.

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Avilar

MAY 18, 2022

It’s always been important for leaders to hone their management skills to keep up with organizational priorities, leadership best practices, and workforce trends. Effective practices for connecting with remote employees, developing teams with widely distributed members, and managing performance remotely continue to evolve. Connection.

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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. For example, companies may launch a one-time, internal leadership development program, or pull together an employee resource group for women or sponsor women to attend a women’s conference. There’s no doubt about it.

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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

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

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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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Organizations now need to focus on a culture to build agility and speed-savvy leadership. Some characteristics of companies with an agile culture and mindset are: Making decisions and taking calculated risks quickly. Smoother collaboration between teams. The role of L&D teams. Industry 4.0 Need for speed.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

COVID-19 has forced unique challenges on American managers tasked with leading multicultural work teams: Its impact on how we do work, where we do work and how we define work gets deeper every week. After all, these teams worked together virtually long before COVID came along. 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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to Big Think and ATD , a learning ecosystem involves an organization’s people, technology, data, processes and culture all working together to incorporate and support learning across the enterprise. Suffice it to say, it takes multiple teams to manage an organization’s people, technology, data, processes, and culture.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In an era of remote working, organizations are scrambling to figure out three crucial things: How to retain employees from afar, how to foster leadership and development and how to demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. After all, a rising tide should lift all boats and a bird in the hand should be worth two in the bush.

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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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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

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

MARCH 11, 2021

For so long, our idea of strong leadership has been shaped by strict delegation and direction, where managers lead the way and employees dutifully follow. COVID-19 has ushered in a new template we should be following when recruiting our managers and team leaders. Empathetic leadership. Healthy priorities.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

If your organization is making a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and your teams are becoming more diverse, you are well on your way to accomplishing two very important steps in the DEI journey. Now, for the next step: What does it take for managers to leverage the power of these diverse teams?

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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

Soon after, in a moment of organ empathy, it dawned on me that what that kidney went through — passing from my wife’s body to mine — is like what new hires go through when joining a new team. What can be done to increase the likelihood that a new hire is welcomed into a new team and is successful? Both have little control, if any.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For several years now, many management authors have been discussing how the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world in which we live requires a new set of leadership skills. It is not so much gender that is a differentiator in leadership success during these VUCA times; what is really at play is a fundamental difference in style.

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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

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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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.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

When founder and CEO Amir Mansouri started the company in 2014, cultivating culture was easy. There’s a major difference between maintaining a company culture in a small, close-knit startup with five employees and a fast-growing, mature business with 60 employees and counting. The SprintRey leadership team.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A strong leadership pipeline is critical to the success of any organization. Here are 5 steps to get you started and help you use predictive analytics to make better-informed decisions about leadership. Pull together any available data on your culture, employee engagement, leadership behaviors and practices. Take Action.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Allowing your team to do this will create the environment that lets them find their footing. Your team members are probably carrying scars from the pandemic. Show gratitude for your team having the courage to be candid. . We are social creatures who need healthy relationships to thrive. As a leader, what can you do?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

COVID-19 created a new paradigm for the way we work—and organizations across the globe are stepping back to redefine what work means for their employees and culture. There has never been a more urgent call for human-centered leadership. We have learned teams can connect and accomplish goals working virtually when we are intentional.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Yet we, as learning and development professionals, still must make our teams future-ready, without knowing exactly what tomorrow will bring. To successfully ride this wave of change (and the one after it), leaders and their teams need three essential skills: creativity, communication and empathy.

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