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March 1, 2004
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Human Systems Dynamics: New Rules for an Evolving Game
The rules for corporate and individual performance are changing. Your employees need to develop new competencies to adapt effectively to their emerging environments, and they will develop these skills and concepts through innovative systems and delivery m
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Clarity for Standards in Learning Technology
The standards debate in the e-learning industry has become a muddled topic. Many vendors have approached standards as a marketing tool, which has blurred the line between how standards benefit the end user and the provider.
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Friends in High Places
“As technology transforms the way almost every job is done, America becomes more productive and workers need new skills.” –President George W. Bush Along with many Americans in late January, I heard the president utter those words in his State of the Union address. Maybe it’s conditioning now, but when I hear someone say “productivity,”…
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Flying in Formation: The Organizational Commitment of Training and Development
Organizations around the world continue efforts to maximize the productivity of their employees in the face of competitive, legislative and socioeconomic change. More and more, senior learning professionals are being asked to enhance employee performance
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Communicate Value With a Learning Annual Report
Measuring the value of an organization’s investment in learning continues to be one of the five most pressing challenges facing chief learning officers, according to a recent Online CLO Forum conducted by Accenture Learning. CLOs voiced the need to be bet
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University of Texas Medical Branch: Setting a New Direction
Facing rising health-care costs, declining reimbursement and low staff morale, the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston set out to undertake an across-the-board cultural transformation. The initiative began at the top, when John D. S
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Aligning Learning With Strategy
CLOs are pressured to justify their investments in learning. A CLO always has to answer the CEO’s questions: Why should we invest in this learning program, and how will it help us execute our strategy? And how can we measure the return on this investment?
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Building Accountability and Credibility in the Learning Process
Two things that have plagued the training industry include an absence of accountability to the businesses it serves and a lack of credibility with its various audiences. Two questions often raised are: How does one assess whether a user has learned someth