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Destination Hotels: Leveraging Technology for Effective Succession Planning
As the war for talent heats up, more organizations are finding value in talent management and learning activities integration. Such is the case with Destination Hotels & Resorts. With more than 7,500 employees to look after, Destination found it critical to automate its succession planning process. “Our approach in the world of hospitality is to…
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Managing Succession Plans and Career Paths
Effective managers always anticipate the need for successors, and they are prepared. Because organizations cannot assume the mere existence of a talent pool guarantees the succession neatly will fit into place, effective succession management requires car
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Tough Choice
If you’re finding it harder to make good decisions these days, take heart. It might not be a sign of decline or advancing age. (I know that makes me feel better.) Effective decision making is actually getting much more difficult for everyone, everywhere. So say the members of the U.N.-supported Millennium Project, an international network…
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OppenheimerFunds’ Patricia Lovett: Earning a Seat at the Table
At OppenheimerFunds Inc., Patricia M. Lovett, senior vice president of learning and development, uses her operational experience to help keep employees engaged. Her expertise has helped her team build partnerships within the business and earn a seat at th
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Should We Get Out Of the Training Business?
I’ll never forget one of my first weeks as a trainer in the corporate training world. I sat in a cafeteria after observing one of the courses I would soon teach, and I shared my background with one of the students. I told this person I had just left public education after teaching third grade…
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Five Ways to Use Social Networking for Learning
Why should CLOs care about social networking for learning? Because social networking can improve organizational problems such as sharing knowledge, brain drain, multigenerational learning, competency management and talent management. Let’s look at five characteristics of social networking and how one organization successfully uses social networking to support learning and to maintain a competitive advantage. 1.…
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Domino’s Pizza: Supporting Leadership Development in 30 Minutes or Less
When not taking steps to “Avoid the Noid,” the leadership and organizational development team at Domino’s Pizza incorporates technology into its overall leadership development efforts to facilitate a blended learning approach. With more than 8,000 locations in more than 54 countries, Domino’s needs a cost-effective way to reach out to a broad audience to support…
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Steve Kerr, Pioneer in Corporate Learning and Leadership Development, Joins LRN
Los Angeles — April 25 LRN, a provider of ethics and compliance solutions, has announced that Dr. Steve Kerr, former managing director and chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs, has joined LRN. Kerr, an innovator of corporate learning and leadership development, is helping LRN develop tools, strategies and approaches for developing lawful and ethical corporate…












