CLO Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

Whitcomb is an award-winning HR, leadership and talent development executive with more than 20 year’s experience across various industries, including transportation, financial services and health care. CLO: How did you become interested in learning and development? Chief Learning Officer: Where is your hometown?

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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. Plus, trial and error can take a long time and cause suffering for leaders and their teams. And scared. Connection.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Learning and development teams that prioritize development in empathy for leaders have curtailed the strains that employees experience and, in many cases, improved their organizational culture. Empathy can also be learned and coupled with leadership development. Empathy is defined as a key element of emotional intelligence.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

We support ourselves better when we acknowledge that leadership is hard. She had been quickly promoted over a 10-year period and was operating in a senior leadership role at a Fortune 100 company. Throughout our coaching, I guided and supported Emily as the reality that “leadership is hard” caught up with her.

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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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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

We recently sat down for a conversation with Kevin Wilde, an Executive Leadership Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Business. In 2007, he was named CLO of the Year. CLO: How did you first become interested in learning and development? Chief Learning Officer: Where is your hometown? I was 16 years old.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

One of the most worrisome developments is the impact to leadership pipelines. There are a few ways you can organically develop leadership skills in your employees. Assign one or two individuals per department or team to develop a presentation — a PowerPoint or the like — about the work done in their department.

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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. The first challenge starts with valuing the role of learning itself — addressing how to encourage both employees and leaders to invest time in learning.

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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

JULY 18, 2021

Not only is the role of the chief diversity officer growing and becoming more vital, but it’s evolving at a breakneck speed. To do that, let’s focus on four key goals employers often propose to me when undertaking DEI strategies: Elevate underrepresented talent, especially Black and LatinX talent, beyond front-line roles.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Without access to these offerings, leaders are left alone to connect the dots and figure out how the DEI pieces fit into the larger puzzle that is leadership. When we keep DEI training separate from other leadership development offerings, we cannot expect leaders to treat what they are learning with an equal level of importance.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 7, 2023

Consider those stats in the context of a leadership development program — a more than $370 billion global market. Most leaders return to the job equipped with action steps and the best intentions of making changes, but those plans are frequently eclipsed by the more pressing needs of demanding roles at work and home.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

We offer a solution where the Yellowstone wolves serve as a guiding analogy to illustrate that strategically introducing a high-performing team can unlock systemic growth through scaling team learning. This team of six became our analogous team of wolves. Team learning key No. The business challenge.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While the concept of “servant leadership” — a leadership philosophy which turns the traditional power dynamic on its head — dates back more than 2,000 years, it has recently experienced a renaissance. The model of traditional leadership is dead by virtue of the fact that it’s impossible to execute! .

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 30, 2023

In this article, I will describe how coaching can augment leadership development, promote knowledge transfer and skills on the job and sustain leadership behaviors over time. In the case of leadership development, coaching can augment the formal classroom or virtual learning experience.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There has never been a more urgent call for human-centered leadership. Model resilience behaviors yourself, focusing on physical, emotional, mental and social resilience practices and ensure team members are encouraged and supported in their well-being practices. Radically rethink the hybrid work model. Walk your EDI talk.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic transformed many CLOs into corporate sherpas, guiding employees as they moved to remote work and providing them with newly virtual content to ensure they had the skills and support to remain productive and engaged. The team scaled that curriculum and we got them trained,” Tedrick says. From fashion designer to CLO.

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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 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. So, when faced with choices and trade-offs, try to choose what’s best for your team members. The COVID-19 pandemic changed our world.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Organizations now need to focus on a culture to build agility and speed-savvy leadership. Smoother collaboration between teams. Companies, teams and individuals need to be extremely agile in order to embrace disruptive changes and adapt quickly. The role of L&D teams. A low resistance to change. Key takeaways.

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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

APRIL 27, 2021

Their people will listen attentively — but apprehensively — as they get ready to resume their old roles in a new world. Allowing your team to do this will create the environment that lets them find their footing. Your team members are probably carrying scars from the pandemic. Renewing these bonds is of paramount importance.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

To navigate the uncertainty of transition, providing support to the managers of your remote teams may be the most important investment to make. Successful businesses bring together diverse teams of employees to serve a broad base of customers. Supervising a team of remote workers is different than overseeing a traditional office.

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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. He eventually moved on to consumer banking management roles such as sales manager, branch manager and division sales manager. Photo by David Lubarsky.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

If your organization is making a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and your teams are becoming more diverse, you are well on your way to accomplishing two very important steps in the DEI journey. Now, for the next step: What does it take for managers to leverage the power of these diverse teams?

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Training Orchestra

JANUARY 9, 2024

The title of Chief Learning Officer (CLO) may not be as widely known as other C-suite members, but its importance is perhaps more significant now than ever before. While the CLO acronym had been used previously for other roles, Kerr’s title was the first of its kind. In this post: What is a Chief Learning Officer?

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

You may or may not have the ability to invest in leadership development right now, yet your organization needs effective leaders to stay competitive in this season of volatility. Why have traditional leadership development programs failed? Develop leadership by doing leadership. Leadership is a verb.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Nowadays, it appears we are spending more time trying to understand how to best lead our teams. In an endless realm of ideas and leadership styles, how do we create a sense of community within the ever-changing dynamics of work? For leaders, this is the journey we embark on when leading teams. Role One – Be an example.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

Whether an employee is in an entry-level role or holds the most sophisticated and complex role in the organization, people who are curious better serve the cause. For example, the leader of our financial services team supports developing talent in the larger organization.

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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 10, 2020

The truth is that the topic might not be new, but investment in leadership development continues to be critically important — and the need to spread the word persists. Organizational success is driven by strong leadership, and companies that invest in leadership training consistently appear on most-admired and best-of lists.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

Read the transcript of Joy’s interview below: I have been working remotely with some team members for several years, and a lot of people have, so for some of us, this work from home idea is really not all that different for us, and for others, it’s completely different and folks are really struggling.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Digital transformation has been impacting some roles for years, but automation powered by artificial intelligence is dramatically accelerating the rate of change across industries. One app in particular, the generative AI tool ChatGPT, was adopted practically overnight by professionals in a range of roles.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The book focused on Bill Belichick’s formative years as an athlete and student, as well as his progression from an assistant football coach to his current role as head coach of the NFL’s New England Patriots. This formative career experience shaped how I see the role of a chief learning officer.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2018

There’s no playbook for becoming a CLO, and if there’s one simple fact that shines through from the hundreds of formal interviews and countless more conversations I’ve had with learning leaders, that’s it. There was a time when the majority of learning leaders grew up through traditional learning and development roles. That’s changing.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In many corporate settings, rising leaders work remotely — far from not only their physical offices but, more urgently, from their teams. These new leaders must hire team members through a series of video conferencing chats. Only later do leaders have a chance to meet their new hires in person.

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