CLO Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

In this article, I will describe some practices I use as a leadership coach in order to leverage design thinking principles to guide and support my clients. Asking open-ended questions and probing to understand clearly with examples that a leader shares is a great way to collate information.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Children wake with a natural curiosity and awe for each day, with open hearts to endless possibilities. As such, here are five lessons my kids have taught me about leadership: Maintain an incessant desire for learning. My kids (aged 6 and 3) have unquestionably been my life’s greatest teacher. Make time for play.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We call it “Leadership 2.0.” The oft-cited leadership development model of 70/20/10 has been around since the 1980s, helping us to describe how leaders grow. Leadership is a fundamentally human endeavor. These elements can be blended in myriad of ways to support a whole-person approach to leadership development.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Empathic leadership improves organizational culture While leadership focuses on the behaviors required to guide others, empathy is the ability to understand others in a way that guides your leadership behavior. Empathy can also be learned and coupled with leadership development.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Existing models of leadership were already under strain. Your leadership decisions can create much-needed predictability and stability — especially for people who are unsettled and anxious. They’ll demonstrate a greater open-mindedness. They’ll have a curious and open mind. The COVID-19 pandemic changed our world.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Each year, the Chief Learning Officer of the Year Award is presented to an individual learning executive who delivers the most exemplary development and guidance, is a strategic business partner and provides essential leadership to the organizational learning and development function. 20, when she was announced as the 2020 CLO of the Year.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Chief Learning Officer recently sat down with longtime CLO Advisory Board member Diana Thomas, executive coach and advisor for Winning Results LLC. In 2014, she received CLO’s Norman B. Kamikow Learning Leadership Award. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? I think it was in my passion.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

Additionally, as more and more companies take leadership positions on responding to these ESG challenges, this in itself is leading to industry transformations that are also driving disruption. CEOs see their new role as influencing change in their organizations to open up the space for others to behave differently.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Under the umbrella of The Learning Forum, CLO LIFT , a group of learning and development leaders, is actively addressing persistent challenges straining the learning and development industry. CLO LIFT’s values group is taking on this particular challenge as time, by orders of magnitude, is the largest investment that goes into learning. “We

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

For so long, our idea of strong leadership has been shaped by strict delegation and direction, where managers lead the way and employees dutifully follow. Empathetic leadership. In fact, employee engagement is higher when leadership is continually and openly communicating with them. Healthy priorities. Generous collaboration.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s clear that the model for leadership will have to change dramatically to fit the evolving needs of next-gen leaders. According to DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2021 , global bench strength has been diminishing over the past decade. Further, companies report only being able to fill about 47 percent of leadership roles on average.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Should your organization have a CCO and CLO? I agree with Hebert and I have similar concerns with having a CLO (Chief Learning Officer). Companies don’t have CWOs (Chief Work Officer), so why do they have CLOs? Don’t put all the emphasis on a course catalogue and don’t hire a CLO. Operative word.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Whether you made a conscious choice to become a leader or assumed your first leadership position due to circumstance, think back for a moment to that time. What beliefs about leadership led you to become the leader you were then — and helped shape the leader you are today? We call this story the person’s leadership point of view.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In an era of remote working, organizations are scrambling to figure out three crucial things: How to retain employees from afar, how to foster leadership and development and how to demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. After all, a rising tide should lift all boats and a bird in the hand should be worth two in the bush.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

A close-knit industry stretched to its limits Leadership has always been critical to a company’s success, but it is getting harder as the pace of change accelerates. We also want to ensure learning grounds us in our values to achieve our strategic ambition while being practical and accessible to our leadership community,” Finley says. “I

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For several years now, many management authors have been discussing how the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world in which we live requires a new set of leadership skills. It is not so much gender that is a differentiator in leadership success during these VUCA times; what is really at play is a fundamental difference in style.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 19, 2018

A self-proclaimed “accidental CLO,” Jesse Jackson has served in numerous roles at the multinational banking and financial services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co. ” About four years ago, Jackson moved into his current role as CLO of consumer and community banking. . Photo by David Lubarsky.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

How does your organization define what “good” leadership looks like? Too often, there is a lack of alignment around an organization’s leadership model , a specific set of phrases that is designed to guide leadership behavior across a particular organization. Now think about a colleague in your organization. Question No.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 25, 2019

Servant leadership is all about enriching the lives of others, building better organizations and ultimately creating a world that is more caring and equitable. It is specifically good for business to practice servant leadership within your organization. Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership” by James W. Sipe and Don M. Stay agile.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Be open and candid. The post Leadership and the return to the office appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media. Let your people know that you don’t have answers to every question. Be confident enough to be unsure. Commit to growth. A good leader is devoted to learning and changing for the better. Now is your moment.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2021

Recently, I’ve seen firsthand how valuable peer leadership is to underrepresented employee groups, many of whom may feel isolated and uncertain right now. Other peer leaders I’ve met shared their experiences in more difficult work environments, ones in which peer leadership is absent. Make an External Coach Your Ally.”.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

Erin Joy, founder and CEO of Black Dress Circle, shares tips for adjusting to this new normal, the importance of staying communicative and open — mentally and emotionally — and how this pandemic can be an opportunity to focus on the long game. Remote work is a huge adjustment for many people, especially in these difficult times.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2020

COVID-19 is the type of crucible event that has the potential to embed profound leadership lessons, accelerate development and forge critical skills. But going through hardship can open leaders’ eyes to the hardships of others. It teaches them to be open to learning and agile in their approach as they figure out what to do next.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Although not a perfect science, it’s led to a series of open conversations about setting clearer performance expectations, defining priorities and goals, categorizing important versus urgent work, setting boundaries around work and defining team rules of engagement. The post Can better leadership skills unlock greater wellbeing at work?

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As people actually lived at work because they were working from home — and were forced to integrate work and life at almost every turn — L&D professionals realized their organizations had to rethink the definition of good leadership. For many years, people thought about leadership as an individual endeavor.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In her first few months as EY’s CLO, Sugrue presented her vision for learning at the company: to increase the alignment, effectiveness and brand of learning at EY. Sugrue’s team also added two open-ended questions to the survey and began using machine learning to identify what people like most and what they would change.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

These programs tend to focus solely on teaching managerial skills and competencies, but neglect to address the three critical mindsets required for success in a new leadership role. However, when promoted into a leadership role, the mindset needs to shift from self to team. They cannot afford to be too risk averse. Mindset No.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

While open-ended questions can be powerful, there are three outdated questions leaders need to remove from their vocabulary. This article is only available to CLO+ members. But what if they aren't asking the right questions? The perspective is written from an active duty Air Force officer but can be applied to any industry.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 10, 2018

Companies throughout the world feel the pressing need for more effective global leadership. In short, they do not have current leadership or the bench strength to meet future business needs. One way for learning leaders to help close this gap is to include more women more quickly in leadership roles.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The main goal of this strategy is to understand how employees feel about work opportunities and culture, to open a floor for discussion between employees and leadership and use employee feedback to improve the employee experience at a company, ultimately increasing employee retention rates.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

However, research shows that the small number of women who have risen to top positions in business often possess leadership traits quite different from those associated with successful men. They also are scaling the corporate ladder in many corporations, though men still significantly outnumber women in leadership positions.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

The value of empathetic leadership has been in the spotlight, mostly due to the adverse effects of the pandemic. In fact, Forbes touted empathy as the most important leadership skill. Research also correlates empathetic leadership with higher employee job satisfaction, performance and innovation.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

The dean had written a lot about participative management — an early form of servant leadership — but he certainly didn’t practice it. That way, he and I could have a constructive conversation about the advantages of shifting his leadership style and working side by side with faculty on decision making.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

In a groundbreaking global study, McKinsey identified three of the four key skill areas critical to employment and job satisfaction as the nature of work continues to transform the foundational skills of resilience: cognitive, interpersonal and self-leadership skills, with the fourth being digital technical skills.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Redefining the role of leadership: Adaptability Amid constant change and unpredictability, the traditional concept of leadership is undergoing a profound transformation. Gallup found that leadership and management approach has about four times as much influence on employee engagement as their work location.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This type of remote leadership — the kind that demands experience, intuition and insight —would be challenging for any leader, yet new managers are just starting their leadership journeys. Leadership has always required these behaviors. Listen and remain open and curious. Management 101: Back to the basics. Define roles.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

This article explores the unique aspects of developing R&D leaders and the implications for prioritizing specific skills and approaches in R&D leadership development programs. Common strengths they bring to leadership include: Deep technical expertise: This is one of the key strengths of R&D professionals.

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