CLO Magazine

MAY 24, 2017

Many chief learning officers have earned a seat at the table where decisions are made, strategies are developed and key challenges are discussed. It’s time to take the CLO role to a higher level, not just on the organization chart, but in terms of influence and organizational accomplishment. Acquisition should be part of the CLO role.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Carving out time for this can be challenging as the pace of technological and societal change — including the wide-scale adoption of both social media and the gig economy — makes it more difficult to devote long periods to formal learning. Badges and microcredentials offer quicker returns on time invested in formal and informal learning.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2019

Informal learning can help overcome scheduling challenges and long-distance hurdles, allowing managers to deliver bite-sized instruction to reps at the greatest time of need, often as reps are about to meet with customers. As Franklin said long ago, “Involve me and I learn.”

Sales 58

Sales Coaching Learning CLO 58

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

These are my live blogged notes from Jay Cross & Clark Quinn’s LearnTrends session on Reinventing Organizational Learning. Article they wrote for CLO mag: “Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer&#. If you don’t know the solution & need to network/collaborate to find it, that’s learning.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 8, 2013

Despite recent and continued emphasis on social media to support learning, the most significant types of informal learning aren’t technology-based. Similar to tweeting, learning will adapt to create small yet relevant learning bursts,” predicts one CLO. However, this shift is not without risk.

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ILT CD-ROM Asynchronous CLO 66

CLO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Absence of informal learning opportunities —Upwardly-mobile individuals are missing the casual interactions with senior leaders that previously occurred before and after meetings, or side conversations in meeting rooms. Motivated employees fear being off-track or overlooked.

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Diversity Training Course Performance Support Leadership 89

CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Learning leaders believe they have passed through a difficult period and that the improving economy has caused a change in business expectations. One CLO said, “I believe the country is on the right track and the worst of economic issues are behind us.” Another CLO said competencies are weighted for hiring and promotions.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 17, 2016

The Value of Virtual Mentors. This demand for on-the-spot learning also has driven internal social media use to make learning and mentoring a more seamless part of the employee experience. There has been a flood of social collaboration technology in the learning space over the past four years,” Patel said.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2016

In spite of continued emphasis on social media to support learning, the most significant types of informal learning aren’t technology based at all. It’s About Consumption. With that shift comes and increased focus on ensuring content gets consumed. To comment, email editor@CLOmedia.com.

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Compliance Training Mobile Diversity Training ILT 32

CLO Magazine

JULY 1, 2016

Given that reality, today’s “learning experience manager” — a term more descriptive of the new profile necessary to create effective experiences than the traditional term “course designer” — must consider memory dynamics and seek new ways to grab the learner’s attention. Use the power of video 2.0. Comment below, or email editor@CLOmedia.com.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Survival requires continual innovation, and at the core is learning faster than everyone else. Most of the effort in organizations has been focused on formal courses, but technology has generated new options, including facilitated mentoring and coaching, self-directed learning and collaborative learning.

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Performance Support Performance Mentoring Suite 72

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2013

To help employees engage as active learners, learning leaders must tie motivation to learning. Demonstrating how individual learning needs can be met through modern collaboration and mentoring is key. Motivation for Collaboration Clawar said that passivity itself is a learned behavior.

Social Networks 74

Social Networks Learner Mentoring Social Network 74

Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

This appears in the August 2012 CLO magazine. Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. Serving enterprise customers.

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Social Networks Compliance Training Jive Yammer 62

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2016

Just 21 percent of people told us they rely directly on their learning department when they need to learn something new for work, and only 28 percent said they search their employers’ learning management system first. That doesn’t mean people don’t need learning and development. Either/or” won’t work for today’s workers.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2013

Several trends will drive performance and development in 2013, and learning leaders will need to strategize for mobility. Imagine a baggage handler accessing a job aid on his or her bag tag scanner or a copy machine service technician connecting via the machine interface to a live, virtual mentor.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Blended Learning Webcast 74

CLO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2013

Developing these traits is an experiential process that takes place over time through a blend of formal and informal learning, hands-on and virtual personal leadership and organizational leadership development training, cross-departmental collaborations, high-visibility stretch projects, coaching and self-reflection.

Leadership 80

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Jay Cross

MAY 30, 2009

CLO magazine, June 2009. My last column in CLO called for the abolition of corporate training departments. Enlightened e-learning requires more people, not fewer. That first round of e-learning largely failed for precisely this reason. You can’t remove the humans from learning. More Human Than Human.

Technology 38

Technology Wiki Metrics CLO 38

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2011

LXB: Come next year, what trend or advice should the CLO ignore at his peril? Cross: The biggest thing for the CLO to do is to stop focusing on programs. Don’t kid yourself that your learning needs are just going to take care of themselves. This involves making mentoring and coaching de rigueur. Focus on the platform.

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Change Case Study Google CLO 52

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The social learning revolution has only just begun. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. Every participant in the career advisor program has at least one mentor.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 31, 2009

Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009. New categories of work will pop up to address network optimization, making connections, reconfiguring functions, real-time enterprise design, constructive destruction, virtual mentoring and so on. The dawn of a new age. What we are experiencing today is fundamental.

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Business Social Networks Wiki Training 36

CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

You probably read a compelling argument recently that people in knowledge organizations learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches and mentors. And they learn about twice as much from those conversations with others in classrooms and formal learning programs.

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Social Networks Social SocialText Social Network 80

CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

While economic conditions are slowly returning to pre-crisis levels and will continue to impact learning budgets, optimism is winning out, and funding appears set to return to 2013 budgets. Competencies, informal learning and instructor-led training (ILT) will remain priorities in learning and development.

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Ratio Enterprise ILT Budget 48

CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The Power of Information Learning Being open, approachable and vulnerable in an age where information can be had in the blink of an eye is a bit like a high-wire balancing act with many moving parts. Informal learning from peers, mentors and supervisors can be just as impactful, if not more so.

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Social Networks Facebook Develop Social Media 81

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Since its faculty are no longer lecturers, Western Governors University has redefined their roles: For every 80 students, a PhD faculty member, certified in the discipline, serves as a full-time mentor. togetherLearn and CLO magazine recently conducted a survey on meta-learning.

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Open Social Networks Scanning Content 40

CLO Magazine

APRIL 22, 2014

” The Road to County CLO Bruny’s journey to the county was circuitous. In 2003, he was appointed to the county’s newly created CLO position, and became director for the county’s Center for Organizational Excellence. as a floor supervisor in the men’s suits and accessories department.

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Internationalization Simulations Liability Quality 39

Jay Cross

JULY 4, 2009

Any remaining training staff will become mentors, coaches and facilitators who work on improving core business processes, strengthening relationships with customers and cutting costs. Informal Learning. Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs.

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Social Networks Friendfeed Social Network Wiki 36

CLO Magazine

MAY 14, 2021

This should include: A learning management system, allowing you to upload, deliver and track formal learning courses and programs. A learning experience platform to support informal learning, collaboration and knowledge sharing across the organization.

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Performance Support Performance LMS Learning 109

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

We have known for more than a century that learning without context rarely sticks and rarely changes behaviour (and ‘learning’ is fundamentally ‘changing behaviour’). So we are seeing increasing interest in social and informal learning. Informal learning already happens without input from learning professionals.

Performance Support 113

Performance Support Compliance Training Social Learning Ratio 113

CLO Magazine

APRIL 16, 2013

“IDPs focus on what we need to do to help grow our talent, what experiences they should provide them, what mentoring or coaching is appropriate and also what coursework and informal learning may be needed,” Lowery said. “Our primary emphasis is on experiential learning and development.

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Picture Metrics Diversity Training Performance Support 70

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

We have known for more than a century that learning without context rarely sticks and rarely changes behaviour (and ‘learning’ is fundamentally ‘changing behaviour’). So we are seeing increasing interest in social and informal learning. Informal learning already happens without input from learning professionals.

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Blended Learning Performance Support Compliance Training eLearning Consultant 100

Big Dog, Little Dog

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

It is based upon three fundamental criteria: It is networked It is delivered to the end-user via a computer using standard internet technology It focuses on the broadest view of learning. Tools for prescribing learning, managing development pathways and goals and handling e-commerce and financial transactions related to learning.

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Virtual Classroom CD-ROM Search IBM 32

Limestone Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Monday, March 13, 2017, 11AM – 12PM PT: Mentoring Programs That Work: How the AXLES Model Can Revolutionize Your Mentoring Program (Free for ATD members) There are many ineffective mentoring programs that require large investments of time and money, without creating positive impact. What Does It Mean for the Digital CLO?

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Free Webcast Compliance Training Brandon Hall 40

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Don’t try to do everything) Presenters in early stages of doctoral work who have not been well mentored (organizers could have postgrad sessions for real beginners or hold an early conference workshop on presenting for first timers.). (let such things be voluntary or repeated later in the day if they are really important.) Response 48.

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Conference Authoring Tools Diversity Training Compliance Training 36

Xyleme

JULY 21, 2010

To stay relevant, George believes training vendors should do two things: Stop talking “learning” and start talking “capacity” and “execution” like the rest of the C-suite. Augment their systems with components that provide opportunities for people to interact in social systems for informal learning. Learn more about Dawn here.

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Social Networks Social Learning Social Blended Learning 109

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2014

The roles need to be revisited and explored keeping in mind the shifting paradigms, their impact on workplace learning, and the place of L&D in the organization. Add some scope for mentoring and reverse mentoring. Does the workforce consist of different generations working together?

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 229

Limestone Learning

MARCH 30, 2018

Please join Litmos CLO, Mike Martin, for this one-hour webcast for new insights on: Earning executive support to champion the criticality of training. Discover the seven hidden barriers that prevent people from doing what they know they should do, and learn how to neutralize those barriers whenever they show up.

Free 40

Free Webcast Authoring Tools Coaching 40

Learnnovators

MAY 18, 2015

Adopt A Systems Thinking Approach: Integrating social learning requires a systemic change that includes culture, business and operational processes as well as organizational vision. It requires CEO / CLO intervention and strategic thinking to create an environment where the behaviours that construe social learning can thrive.

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Social Learning Social eLearning Strategy Strategy 133