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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

All industries are undergoing enormous change, mostly due to new technologies, globalization, and a very diverse workforce. Any company, faced with these kinds of disruptive forces must keep learning. Most companies have a training culture, not a learning culture. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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6 learning strategies to address pandemic-triggered trends

CLO Magazine

When COVID -19 shuttered offices, it’s no exaggeration to say learning and development professionals played a key role in assuring their organizations survived and thrived. Simultaneously, they quickly redesigned major training initiatives to ensure uninterrupted learning and growth during a time of unprecedented change.

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Large Organizations Thrive Through Exponential Learning

CLO Magazine

The shift index recognized that businesses must move away from a scalable efficiency model to scalable learning to survive. In diverse markets, 360-degree customer insight is critical. Face-to-face interactions accelerate learning in a way virtual communities don’t. The Value of Exponential Learning.

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Year In Review - 2017

The Performance Improvement Blog

With the publication of my new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy , I have continued to focus my blog posts on a manager’s role in supporting continuous learning for all employees in the workplace. And I have examined an employee’s responsibility for continuous learning in the Knowledge Economy.

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Developing a real strategy for on-the-job learning

CLO Magazine

This is the first in a series of articles in which the authors will explore their reflections on the future of learning, given the tumult and chaos of the past few months, and how learning needs to evolve to serve organizations differently. Organizations that learn well also perform well … do you agree?

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Listen: Researcher Sarah Kimmel on the future of the CLO role

CLO Magazine

Technology is indisputably transforming learning. The scope of learning in the organization is growing, and sometimes shrinking, as a result. There’s a creeping sense of unease in the CLO role, with the future both uncertain and full of opportunity. It’s understandable if learning executives are feeling a little bit shaky.

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The Business of Development

CLO Magazine

How does someone who went to college to become a high school math teacher end up leading learning at Nordstrom? Jesse Schlueter, vice president of learning and leadership for Nordstrom, leverages her passion for numbers in her role managing the development of the retail giant’s 72,000 employees. She’s highly operational.”.