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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

Like many bosses, Jon Kaplan thought he was a good leader. He worked his way up from aspiring academic to public school teacher to corporate instructional designer and eventually into the top learning job at Discover Financial Services, a Chicago-area firm with 17,000 employees. April 2019 Profile: Discover Financial’s Jon Kaplan.

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Putting People First

CLO Magazine

When it comes to learning, Jon Kaplan truly understands the importance of emotional engagement. Kaplan finally confessed his secret to a classmate and got the remedial help he needed, but by then he had become “incredibly ashamed” and his academic performance suffered through grade school. You’re more engaged; it’s more interesting.”.

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After EI, DI?

CLO Magazine

That pretty much sums up our experience at Kaplan of working exclusively remotely this past year. While this is invaluable work, at Kaplan we felt there was something missing from a career development perspective. appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media. We thought we were prepared. The post After EI, DI?

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Webinar Summary: A Practical Approach for Supporting the Modern Learner

Axonify

He also spent a good amount of time walking us through how he and his team at Kaplan are tackling many of the challenges that modern learning environments are facing. . An interesting question to ask yourself is: “If you have the same job title that you did a year or two ago, are you still doing the exact same work?”

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Webinar Summary: A Practical Approach for Supporting the Modern Learner

Axonify

He also spent a good amount of time walking us through how he and his team at Kaplan are tackling many of the challenges that modern learning environments are facing. . An interesting question to ask yourself is: “If you have the same job title that you did a year or two ago, are you still doing the exact same work?”

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Happy Employees, Happy Company

CLO Magazine

We found these same five dimensions regardless of country, industry or job level.”. Cheryl Allen, vice president of human resources at Kaplan Professional, an education services company, agrees that creating a positive employee environment has a financial impact. “We

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Leave Learning to Employees, sort of

Jay Cross

CLO magazine November 2015. This article describes the CLO of Kaplan as he adapts to a world where employees can route around learning to find their own content. Learner-created content presents a challenge to CLOs: they want to control it. Kaplan set up a wiki that has proved very successful. By Kate Everson.

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