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Learning Portals: Supporting Corporate Objectives
In today’s Web-savvy world, the technology to develop user control offers the best opportunity for improved learning and productivity. That’s a far cry from the prevailing approach of only a few years ago, and it says much about how we have evolved from i
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The CEO-CLO Partnership: Making the Most of the Learning Agenda
Most CLOs wish their CEOs were fully committed to the learning agenda. They hope their senior leaders view education and development as strategic levers for business success rather than as discretionary costs. After all, studies indicate the most crucial issue for learning intervention success is the support of senior leadership. But what if that wish…
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Global Demands Drive Enhanced E-Learning Development
Sales Performance International (SPI) offers sales training and professional development programs for sales professionals, managers and marketers at Fortune 500 companies. Up until 2002, SPI relied on instructor-led sessions to teach its proprietary methodology. But changing times and the needs of Microsoft and other global customers prompted the company to offer e-learning programs in conjunction…
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A World of Differences: Train and Maintain Your Global Workforce
To improve workforce connections, reduce global turnover and increase efficiency across the organization, localized and globally consistent employee training is necessary. It also can increase the productivity of a successful business.
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Best Practices: CLO as Diplomat
With two decades of experience as a learning leader, Time-Warner Cable CLO Pat Crull has been practicing successful CLO habits even before such terms were coined. With a background in clinical psychology, including a doctorate from Northwestern University, Crull knew plenty about how people learn but less about how businesses earn. She soon saw the…
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Seven Best Practices CLOs Must Master
As the CLO’s role has evolved, the expectations of learning leaders have grown, as well. Despite this growth, CLOs need to keep a close watch on their basic competencies. To achieve and maintain success, CLOs must master seven best practices.
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Life as We Know it is About to Change
According to a recent article in Science News, an international team of researchers is developing a free, multilanguage, Web-based encyclopedia that will aggregate all data about every living species known — currently 1.8 million — and continue to add information about life forms as they are discovered. Dr. James Edwards, executive director of the project,…
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Blended Delivery: Mixing Modalities
Today, blended learning refers to the range of delivery options available to learning professionals, including classroom-based, instructor-led training; synchronous or asynchronous e-learning; portable technologies and on-the-job training. With so many al

