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5 ways to foster a learning culture

CLO Magazine

With employees today viewing learning and development opportunities as a key benefit of their job — and willing to vote with their feet if those opportunities are not existent or meaningful —organizations must embrace and deliver on a culture of learning to attract and retain employees. The alternative is costly.

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Cross-Cultural Leadership Skills Are Not What You Think

CLO Magazine

Wondering why their best people succeed in one location and fail in another, firms habitually conclude that the challenge is cultural and provide leaders with “cultural skills” — generalizations at best and cartoonish clichés at worst, with little relevance to solving professional problems.

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When It Comes to Leadership, Macrolearning Matters

CLO Magazine

But if you ask CEOs about their top human capital concern, many point to something much harder to define and develop — soft skills like leadership, creativity and adaptability. Leadership in particular looms large; according to McKinsey & Co. , Leadership isn’t a bite-sized skill, and we can’t develop it with bite-sized content.

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Tackling the Quality Leadership Challenge

CLO Magazine

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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Women in Leadership: Surmounting Barriers and Bias

CLO Magazine

they comprise only 25 percent of executive- and senior-level officials and managers, hold 20 percent of board seats and only 6 percent are CEOs, according to the “ Women’s Leadership Gap ” report by The Center for American Progress. Miller said equal pay also would help advance women in leadership. Structural Barriers.

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How Values Factor Into Leadership and Learning

CLO Magazine

Jenny Plaister, global executive coach and author of “The Cross-Cultural Kaleidoscope,” said the results of the study are unsurprising. Those of us who have worked in the intercultural sphere have known for years that culturally bound values differ and this, in turn, translates into leadership behaviors.”. Navigating Conflict.

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Self-Awareness: The Ladder to Leadership Success

CLO Magazine

Independent of the justification or excuse, the fundamental problem stems from an underlying culture that isn’t supportive of introspection and learning from failure. The same can be said for leadership. Without leadership comprehension and engagement, skills like self-awareness can’t gain traction in a meaningful way.