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Study: Many Organizations Don’t Take Advantage of Coaching, Mentoring to Develop Leaders
Out of more than 300 organizations, fewer than 50 percent do not have mentoring and coaching programs, although most consider them valuable, according to a study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp).
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Authentic and Effective Communication
In business, we need to know how to use authentic communication to conform our messages into open and honest statements that can be readily accepted by the receiver.
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Reinventing Leaders for the 21st Century
A CLO must serve as a key role model for leadership in the organization. Reinventing yourself as a leader and enabling others to do the same adds value to the organization. There are many skills, competencies, personal traits and organizational conditions that need to be considered when reinventing yourself as a leader. Three of the…
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CH2M HILL: Building High-Impact Learning Programs
Established in 1946, CH2M HILL is an employee-owned, $4.5 billion global company in the full-service engineering industry. Throughout its history, it has experienced significant sustained growth in both its revenue and workforce. Today, more than 19,000 employees work for the firm, with more than 240 offices around the world. How does a company continue to…
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Education Marketing as a Business Tool
Most learning leaders know that internally marketing an enterprise’s learning and development offerings can create increased engagement among employees. Marketing these offerings externally, however, can affect the bottom line through increased brand valu
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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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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.












