CLO Magazine

APRIL 20, 2018

Of the nine learning methods examined by the study, instructor-led training, short-clip video, and coaching and mentoring were the top three learning approaches cited by respondents overall. Coaching and mentoring appeals most to the oldest (50+ years old) and youngest learners (21-25 years old) out of all age groups in the workplace.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

One way to increase diversity in leadership roles is to improve mentoring opportunities for women and minorities. According to a new study by Heidrick & Struggles, more than three in four respondents said their most impactful mentoring relationship was important to their career development. Mentoring for Minorities.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

CLO’s 2020 Learning State of the Industry Report , for example, revealed more than 55 percent of organizations use executive coaching for leadership development, where it was ranked among the top three delivery methods organizations use for learning and development. What’s driving the explosive growth and popularity of leadership coaching?

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2023

Scaffolding our initiatives to advance and retain female talent means we weave together talented women with the development programs we offer them, the managers who support and promote them and the mentors who help them achieve their goals. Sequencing: A challenge to both women and CLOs I’ve seen this happen many times.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 14, 2024

At the time, most companies had extensive onboarding training for new sales representatives that included basic sales skills and product knowledge. We also learned product knowledge. Helping new salespeople learn their organization, sales process, tools and product knowledge is common. What is sales enablement?

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Upskilling is crucial for long-term success in an organization for a number of reasons, such as engagement and retention, increased productivity and it also gives organizations a competitive advantage to have a workforce with highly attuned relevant skills.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Learning leaders can take on stewardship by serving as advisor, coach, and mentor for the teams building workforce capabilities and skills; learning philosophy evangelist to the C-suite; and cheerleader for the organization’s responsibility to support innovation, evolution, and adaptation through continuous learning.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

We are looking closely at the experiences of more than 780 female participants, and their male and female mentors and managers, to glean a treasure trove of information around successful strategies when work is no longer “live and in-person.” That ability to adapt is showing up in a variety of productive ways.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As an example, the leadership team at Seagate invested more in strategic workforce planning, mentoring and succession planning to strengthen internal, future-ready skill sets and avoid layoffs during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patricia Frost, chief human resources officer, says: “We decided to grow new operations from within.”

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

Pushed to make decisions quickly, HR and learning leaders needed to reduce the friction while ensuring redeployment could be productive for talent teams, managers and employees. Once a data-driven skills profile gets established, mentors, managers and employees can start forming development plans and career mapping.

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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. From fashion designer to CLO. Data-driven CLO. Photos by Samantha Rayward.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Mentors are an important aspect for companies to create and encourage a positive and rewarding work culture. But oftentimes, finding a mentor at work can be an overwhelming and challenging task. Actively trying to be a role model can help you find what you’re looking for in a mentor. Mentorship is a two-way street.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

They are responsible for developing new products, technologies and processes and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and customer requirements. Effective R&D leaders must possess technical expertise but also lead teams of leaders, allocate resources and collaborate across functions to bring new products and services to market.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

federal government, I worked on designing and implementing training, and coaching and mentoring programs to attract new employees. Mentoring Mentoring programs are a great way to start your development marketing campaign and an excellent way for young employees to learn from the senior leaders’ own experiences.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

While the rest of us have hunkered down at home, field teams in stores, in warehouses or on the road kept on donning their masks and showing up for work to keep our machinery working properly, our products shipping on time and our vital infrastructure safely maintained. These everyday heroes deserve our gratitude, of course.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 10, 2014

Mentoring and coaching strategies translate to better employee engagement and retention. But it pays to know the key differences between coaching and mentoring to implement an effective program. There is a difference between coaching and mentoring.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The majority are looking for more coaching, mentoring and career guidance. Failure to address the skills gap has a direct, negative impact on the business, resulting in less productivity, less innovation and increased risk. The post Closing the skills gap is a modern fairytale appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Committees, working groups, teams, task forces — these are all staples of organizational planning and productivity to tackle everything from daily operations, to implementing new initiatives, to long-term strategy. More senior members of the group can also be tapped for this mentoring mindset. But what does this mean?

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The well-known 70-20-10 approach to development is a solid foundation — where 70 percent of development occurs through on-the-job stretch opportunities, 20 percent through mentoring and 10 percent through outside activities. In our experience, including these learners always leads to a better work product. Collaboration methods.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2016

For some organizations, the shortage of skilled executives, middle managers and individual contributors in critical roles already is having quantifiable ramifications — from decreased production capacity to drops in customer satisfaction. What’s a CLO to Do? How long has it been since your organization updated its career paths?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In that kind of culture, trainers (under the direction of a CLO) drive learning. In a learning culture, learning happens all the time, at events but also on-the-job, facilitated by coaches and mentors, from action-learning, via smartphones and tablets, in social groupings, and from experiments. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This is not only important for our well-being, but also research shows that it increases productivity at work. During your team meetings, on-site visits or one-on-one coaching or mentoring sessions, ask your people how they are coping with the holiday stress. A break can make a world of a difference.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

This challenge may require chief learning officers and learning leaders to innovate and incorporate automation through voice recognition, simulation, and assessment to achieve repetition and reinforcement of the production environment workflows for customer-facing employees.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2006

Collaborative learning environments and strategies such as virtual classrooms, discussion forums, mentoring and coaching need to be enabled and mandated as part of the learning experience. Further, the fact that he's suggesting that they need to get on-board with collaboration suggests that LMS products are two cycles behind.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

Increase sales or productivity? If resources are available for formal coaching and mentoring, these can be effective elements. If resources are tight, look at methods of self-monitoring and reporting and peer mentoring as viable alternatives. Peer mentoring support. For example, will it reduce employee turnover?

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

By moving beyond the status quo and adopting new capabilities, CLOs in all industries can enable true employee readiness. 5 Capabilities of an Enlightened CLO. Practice: Reinforce training on complex products and services without disrupting existing processes. Fostering a Culture of Learning.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

times her salary — and that doesn’t take into account the impact on her team’s morale and productivity. Now more than ever, they need networks, mentors, sponsors and peer group interactions to help them focus on how they are contributing to the organization and where changes might be needed. Help women combat isolation.

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CLO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2023

The growing use of technology across job functions is designed to streamline processes, boost productivity, improve customer service and reduce costs. They can also connect students with computer science professionals through mentor programs, tech fairs, school assembly presentations and on-site company visits.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In peer coaching — unlike mentoring — people pair off for guided hour-long conversations in which they’re on equal footing. At the end of each conversation, they commit to taking actions to further their development, increase their productivity and improve their well-being. It’s time to unleash that potential.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

That’s simply not the reality of leading people, because as one of my mentors told me, people are messy! They pledge their loyalty, trust and commitment to that leader, which results in greater productivity, innovation and creativity. Empathetic leaders embrace leading the whole person, messiness and all. Who wouldn’t want that?

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

I attended the CLO Summit in Mumbai last week and listened to some wonderful speakers over the course of the two day event. His session titled “Learning and Development – an integral competency of a CEO” was full of very powerful messages for CLOs, L&D professionals, and other CEOs. How to help improve productivity?

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

He positioned the transformation effort itself as a story, framing the leaders themselves as part heroes, part customer-mentors, and part supporting cast in a sweeping technological epic. Who’s the mentor? The post 3 ways to use storytelling to build resilience appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

1: A company is transitioning from a product sales business to a services business. Managers will no longer lead sales reps that just sell its technical products, they will now be required to lead cross-functional project teams to sell expansive service contracts that include its products as component parts.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

For most professionals, performance management evokes thoughts of feedback, weekly check-in’s, annual reviews and key performance indicators that measure productivity, efficiency and ability. Managers know that performance management is vital in keeping employees engaged and productive and keeping an organization profitable.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

By strengthening communications skills and building a “same language” framework for the workforce, these initiatives not only foster individual development, they enhance collaboration and productivity and contribute to cultural cohesion. controlling the written work product of ESL employees. Exploring Solutions.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Here are several things leaders can do to increase trust, drive productivity, build team cohesiveness and mitigate potential resentment. This is a great opportunity to take a promising team member under your wing to mentor them. The post When the leader can’t return to the office appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Becoming allies and mentors for colleagues from underrepresented groups. Embracing diversity and promoting equity allows organizations to attract and retain top talent, enhance employee engagement and productivity and establish robust relationships with a diverse customer base, leading to long-term success and sustainable growth.

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