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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. April 2019 Profile: Discover Financial’s Jon Kaplan. Jon Kaplan was, until May of this year, vice president of training and development for Discover Financial Services. They’re a large financial services provider headquartered outside of Chicago.

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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. This was no great revelation, but EI provided a useful means to explore and develop those skills. While this is invaluable work, at Kaplan we felt there was something missing from a career development perspective.

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Happy Employees, Happy Company

CLO Magazine

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 The post Happy Employees, Happy Company appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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Leave Learning to Employees, sort of

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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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Learning and Development in the Remote Workplace

CLO Magazine

First, it provides individual learners the flexibility to self-pace — in terms of when they engage in a learning event as well as how quickly they choose to consume content. As a simple use case, one could begin by providing any requisite pre-learning in asynchronous e-learning modules as is common practice in many blended learning models.

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Top Chief Learning Officer Conferences of 2019

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John, Human Capital Media; Jon Kaplan, Discover Financial Services, Mike Prokopeak, Chief Learning Officer Magazine; Nicole Hajdrowski, US Foods, and Skip Marshall, DXC Technologies. CLO Exchange. The CLO Exchange is a yearly conference that is invitation only. Notable conference speakers. ATD International Conference and Expo.