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Working In the Flat World of Learning
There is one sentence in Thomas Friedman’s “The World Is Flat” that I often recite to my daughter: “When I was growing up, my parents told me, ‘Tom, finish your dinner — people in China and India are starving.’ Now, my advice to my daughters is, ‘Girls, finish your homework — people in China and…
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A Global Solution: Picking an LMS for International Applicability
Multinational organizations need a standardized model that measures the attributes in Kirkpatrick’s Theory to determine the impact of employee learning and development. A learning management system (LMS) offers the technology to globally track and manage data associated with learning, driving down the cost of these activities. Further, an LMS acts as the global repository for…
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Operational Efficiency: Lessons from Global Enterprises
From language and cultural differences to the difficulties deploying programs and initiatives to a widespread workforce, global corporations need efficient solutions to remain internationally competitive. Learn how three global enterprises — Holland Ameri
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The Capabilities of High-Performing Learning Organizations: Results of a Working Knowledge Research Study
Deeper integration of mission-critical workforce performance is essential to achieving high performance. But what is a mission-critical workforce anyway? And what are the particular approaches, tactics and strategies high-performance businesses use to maximize the impact of those workforces? Those were central questions behind a research initiative conducted by the Working Knowledge Research Center at Babson…
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The New Face of Workforce Integration
Many senior executives are looking for new ways to integrate their most important workforces more effectively. This isn’t just "workforce collaboration" under a new name — it’s an opportunity to move beyond traditional approaches
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Sanford Health: Learning and Development Amid Scalpels and Stethoscopes
Serving four states and 10,000 employees, Sanford Health’s Center for Learning & Innovation ensures the medical facility, the largest in the region, is both a place of treatment and training.
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Listen and Learn
Once described as “America’s most fascinating outlaw,” Wilson Mizner was a notorious confidence man, raconteur, art forger, gold prospector, entrepreneur and playwright in the early 20th century. He’s not the kind of role model I typically turn to for words of wisdom, but some of his famous sayings are just too good to ignore. They…
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Sr.VP of Knowledge and Content Management
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (www.ifebp.org) is seeking a Sr.VP of Knowledge and Content Management for this $24 million budget, 137 staff organization located in Brookfield, WI.