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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.
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Learning Outsourcing Marches Ahead
Nearly 30 percent of all custom content development, 44 percent of delivery and 30 percent of learning management system (LMS) operations now are outsourced to learning service providers. Research conducted in 2006 to study the economics of training outsourcing uncovered some interesting facts. First, the training outsourcing market is very fragmented and comprises thousands of…
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Reasons for Failed Mentor Programs Might be Rooted in Psychology
To mentor is to serve as a trusted counselor or teacher. In an occupational setting, the key word in that definition is “trusted.” Unfortunately, mentoring programs often fail because this very basic ingredient is missing.
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Who Is Generation X?
In the great conversation about the coming talent shortage in the United States, much of the discussion has revolved around the 80 million or so baby boomers and their impending retirement. But as a few pundits have pointed out, the far lower numbers of G












