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Booming tech sends L&D back to basics

CLO Magazine

For learning professionals to bloom through the boom, reexamining our root system and turning to the sun are needed. Turn to the sun Light illuminates what works and dispels what does not. When learning professionals “follow the sun,” we align to a north star and establish a litmus test for how and where we spend our efforts.

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Kelly Palmer, chief learning officer for Degreed, shares her career journey

CLO Magazine

I spent a huge part of my career at Sun Microsystems first in product development (and actually working on online help systems for the Java platform). After about 10 years, I got a great opportunity to move into corporate strategy at Sun running the acquisition integration function. It was the turning point in my career.

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The Cultural Revolution

CLO Magazine

I believe the L&D function has a fiduciary obligation to the organization’s culture, its purpose and overarching future. The CLO and L&D function is still tactical in 75 percent of the companies I talk with,” said Josh Bersin, principal and founder of Bersin by Deloitte. The organization is in need of a culture change leader.

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Cultivating capability with Walmart’s Brandon Carson

CLO Magazine

In 2007, Sun Microsystems hired Carson and eventually put him in charge of creating one of the first online social learning experiences and the game-based Sun Open Learning Center for system administrators. “This is now a recognition that the culture that Sam [Walton] started,” he says, “Save money, live better , right?

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Team Learning Up With Talent

CLO Magazine

These platforms and the informal learning and mentoring they enable make it necessary for learning leaders to work more closely with employees and business units to build content and create a culture where people turn to each other for help and knowledge-sharing instead of the learning department. To comment, email editor@CLOmedia.com.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

Reuters Institute of Technolgy - an example of CLO expectations When I was CLO at Reuters my learning and development colleague Andrew MacGovern developed the Reuters Institute of Technology which was a fully-featured set of online resources and tools to support our 5,000 or so technical and operations staff.

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CLO Podcast: Visa’s Karie Willyerd on Learning Strategy

CLO Magazine

She’s been at the forefront of corporate learning for a couple of decades, leading the learning function at companies like Lockheed Martin, Heinz, Sun Microsystems and SuccessFactors/SAP. She took on the brand new role of global CLO at Visa in 2018. You’ve done a lot of things over your career before you started as CLO at Visa.

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