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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

Like many bosses, Jon Kaplan thought he was a good leader. April 2019 Profile: Discover Financial’s Jon Kaplan. Jon Kaplan was, until May of this year, vice president of training and development for Discover Financial Services. The results seemed to prove it. The only problem? His team didn’t agree with his assessment.

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After EI, DI?

CLO Magazine

That pretty much sums up our experience at Kaplan of working exclusively remotely this past year. While this is invaluable work, at Kaplan we felt there was something missing from a career development perspective. A practical framework that we could use to create development programs. Developing a digital intelligence program.

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10 Real Estate Agent Training Tools

Ed App

EdApp is a mobile-friendly platform that allows users to take their lessons at any time on basically any device. The lessons are offered in bite-sized chunks so they are not time-consuming and overwhelming. Real Estate Express comes complete with an exam prep program that will prepare you for your state licensing real estate exam.

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How HR Can Improve Psychological Safety in the Workplace

KnowledgeCity

Implementing a program to improve psychological safety at work is the first step. Managers who share lessons learned from mistakes and support calculated risk-taking will “encourage innovation instead of sabotaging it.” As Kaplan states, “Ideas themselves are a dime a dozen. Establish norms for handling failure.

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Philadelphia ASTD Meeting Lot of Fun

Kapp Notes

Tony and I started the discussion by talking about research indicated the effectiveness of virtual immersive environments for learning and highlighting a couple of case studies and lessons learned from our book. See ASTD Philadelphia Presentation Resources for slides and links to the research.

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Higher^2 Education

Clark Quinn

There were some inspiring talks, including Mark Milliron of the Gates Foundation, and a ‘debate’ between Peter Smith of Kaplan (and author of a new book on the topic of higher education) and David Longanecker of WICHE (WCET’s ‘parent’). Even system-selected?

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Does your first-time manager training help nurture successful leaders?

TalentLMS

In this video, she explains how providing constructive feedback can help support the team and make first-time managers competent leaders: What should a first-time manager training program include? This is why first-time manager training programs have to be carefully planned and implemented. as Dean, CEO of The Kaplan Group , says.