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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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Study Abroad, Employers Love It

CLO Magazine

students studying abroad to date, but only about 10 percent of all students will actually participate in some sort of travel-driven, experiential learning before graduating, according to the study. A March research study commissioned by Kaplan Inc. Alice Keefe is a Chief Learning Officer editorial intern.

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Putting People First

CLO Magazine

When it comes to learning, Jon Kaplan truly understands the importance of emotional engagement. I was able to pay attention to social cues, and I learned how to cheat on multiple-choice tests.”. “I I was able to pay attention to social cues, and I learned how to cheat on multiple-choice tests.”. The Road to L&D.

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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. We’d have to manage our time, ourselves, our clients and our processes differently. While this is invaluable work, at Kaplan we felt there was something missing from a career development perspective. We thought we were prepared.

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Leave Learning to Employees, sort of

Jay Cross

Leave Learning to Employees. 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. The CLO feigns near helplessness.

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Learning and Development in the Remote Workplace

CLO Magazine

This shift creates some new and interesting challenges for learning leaders. In the past, they could offer pre-learning in asynchronous e-learning modules and either reinforce or introduce more complex, application-based training via instructor-led events. Now consider some advantages for collaborative learning.

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Happy Employees, Happy Company

CLO Magazine

The Employee Experience Index, or EXI, surveyed more than 23,000 workers across a number of countries and was conducted by human capital management solutions company Globoforce and information technology company IBM. Harriott said having open communication between managers and employees is vital. “By