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Fine-Tuning Strategy: Staying in Sync With Organizational Needs
Although “business alignment” is one of the most common phrases in the learning profession, too often learning organizations fall short of meeting this goal.
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Finding your Precision Approach Controller
As a 25-year-old aircraft commander, I was carrying 154 Marines on a mission from California to North Carolina. We encountered unexpectedly severe thunderstorms that forced us to alter our route far north over Canada and to much higher-than-normal altitudes. At the end of a demanding night mission, fatigue was setting in, and our fuel was…
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Famous Dave’s: Piling on Professional Training
Famous Dave’s: Piling on Professional Training
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The Chief Learning Officer’s Investment Portfolio: Beating the Street
For the fourth straight year, the outlook is optimisitic for training budgets to grow. A greater number of training executives expect larger budgets, foresee an increased use of external training providers and plan to make significant investments in learn
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AHIMA Implements Change Motivated Leadership Development
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said that change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. Some may disagree with the grandness of that quote, but the fact remains that change is a primary motivator for learning.
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Good Leaders are Good Learners
Learning and leadership go hand in hand for senior-level learning and development executives. Some might say the two are intrinsically linked. Consider the traditional learning model of apprentice, journeyman, master and teacher. Each stage requires a cyc
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Online and Traditional Degrees Differ in Expectations, Not Results
Learning is a continual activity that takes place at multiple locations inside and outside of the enterprise, as well as online and offline. Researchers at Philadelphia’s Drexel University recently completed a comparison study that examined differences be
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Survey: HR Professionals Least Prepared for Mid-Career Employee Engagement
HR professionals face challenges in their day-to-day operations, and one of the largest is keeping mid-career employees fully engaged, according to a survey by Sirota Survey Intelligence, which specializes in attitude research. Further, this situation is












