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A Case for Online Contracted Learning: Why and How to Create a Successful Virtual Corporate-University Leadership Development Program
A long held belief in corporate America is that colleges and universities prepare employees for entry-level positions, while it is the responsibility of the corporation to provide the skills and knowledge needed to contribute to the long-term strategic ob
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Institute for Corporate Productivity Research Backs up Many Fictional Incidents in “The Office”
The managerial ineptitude that reaches epic proportions each week on NBC’s hit comedy “The Office” might be closer to reality than some think, according to researchers.
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Experiential Learning Integrates Action Coaching to Maximize Results
What’s the one trend that has continued to dominate chief learning officers’ mind share? Experiential learning. This type of learning is directly linked to a company’s top strategic business priorities. There are three reasons why interest in experiential learning has stood the test of time and is now growing. First, many high-performing learning organizations have…
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Public Funds for Training: Is Your Company Getting Its Share?
When it comes to garnering money for learning programs, CLOs are not limited to company coffers — the government provides public funds through both the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998, as well as through federal programs in various agencies
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Developing the Leader’s Core Strengths
Research in neuroscience tells us a person’s talent does not change significantly over time, and leaders will improve the most in their areas of greatest talent. This implies a very different approach to leadership development, performance management and career planning. Rather than a focus on how we can offer opportunities and challenges in business that…
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Leading with Data at New Century Mortgage Corp.
In “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu writes, “Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one. It is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.” As with much of the sixth-century text, this principle can be applied to the 21st century with little imagination. One…
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Tempus Fugit
Back at the turn of the 20th century, Austrian writer Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach wrote, “Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.” The same might be said of how business measures successful performance. Although it is talent, not capital, that drives financial…
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The Stampede to Talent Management
There’s a stampede coming — today’s LMS vendors can’t move fast enough into talent management. For those of us who follow technology, this rush into a small, largely undeveloped market represents a deviation from the typical technology maturity curve. For LMS buyers, this new emphasis on talent management can make LMS-purchasing decisions even more arduous…












