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Mentoring Matters, Especially for Women and Minorities

CLO Magazine

American Association of University Women researcher Kevin Miller said this benefit to the bottom line can be attributed in part to the fact that having cultural and gender diversity can help the firm make better decisions overall and decrease the chance of making embarrassing errors. Mentoring for Minorities.

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Fewer Mentors, Bigger Problems

CLO Magazine

A 2018 survey from the LeanIn Foundation and SurveyMonkey found that nearly half of male managers felt uncomfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, such as mentoring, working alone or socializing together. That means about 1 in 6 male managers would hesitate to mentor a woman. Self-Imposed Fear.

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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?

CLO Magazine

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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Large-scale online course design? Use collaborative learning for high engagement

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Research by Katy Jordan shows that in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the completion rate can approach 20%, but most MOOCs have a percentage of less than 10%. Success can be measured in several ways: by observations and measurements- and measurements can be clicks or surveys. I am very proud and satisfied. How to measure success?

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Closing the skills gap is a modern fairytale

CLO Magazine

Research suggests the half-life of professional skills has dropped from 10 years to five, and the half-life for many technical skills is now below 2.5 According to research from McKinsey & Company, 87 percent of companies are either experiencing skills gaps now or expect it within a few years.

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The HR Challenge: Analyze Your Corporate Training Needs

eFront

Why, despite hiring the best eLearning consultants and even applying your own training management skills, some courses never make it to better testimonials and performance spikes? Any latest research and development that would affect your corporate strategy? Did you gather any explicit trainings preferences through surveys?

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The Digital Future Is Human

CLO Magazine

According to a survey of 4,000 professionals conducted by LinkedIn Learning, the most important skills employees will need — and that learning organizations must develop — are leadership, communication and collaboration. Eight in 10 expect it to fundamentally change how they operate.

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