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Companies in Asia-Pacific Increasing Leadership Development
Western executives looking to head up companies in the Asia-Pacific region might find a lack of opportunities, a new study suggests. According to a survey from The Conference Board, companies in the Asia-Pacific region are ramping up efforts to hire home-
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Kaiser Permanente, Director
Untitled Document Kaiser Permanente, Director, Learning and Development, Southern California Region – Pasadena, CA The Director, L&D, reporting to VP, HR, SoCal, manages a team 19. Responsibilities: build a robust new employee entry process; ensure education related to HR regulatory requirements; create learning strategy for leader development at team leader, supervisory, and middle management levels;…
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AOL’s Thomas Lokar: Accelerating Leadership and Learning in Line With Business Strategies
AOL has experienced a rebirth over the past three years, aided in no small part by the company’s learning and development organization and its leaders, Vice President of People Development and Talent Acquisition Thomas Lokar.
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Prudential Financial: Growing Money and Learning Efficiency
The Prudential Financial slogan, ‘Growing and Protecting Your Wealth,’ parallels the company’s stance on learning. Prudential has created a learning and development strategy based on vendor partnerships and the formation of high-
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Are You a Strong or Weak Leadership Link?
Whether you are a highly seasoned CLO or relatively new to the role, you have probably faced concerns at some point in your career such as: Why am I having trouble becoming a consistently sought-after strategic advisor to other executives in the organization? Why is it difficult for me to gain the support and the…
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Virtual Collaboration: Engaging Learning Through Technology
Virtual collaboration, which uses technology to bring people together, can help people achieve their goals. Learning and development leaders should use virtual collaboration to help people learn, practice and apply new knowledge and skills.
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MaineGeneral Health: Teaching the Art of Patient Care
MaineGeneral Health is the parent corporation of a network of care hospitals, physician practices, rehabilitation centers, long-term nursing care and assisted-living and retirement communities. The organization’s mission is to enhance the health of the people in the Kennebec Valley region of Maine. In order to achieve that mission, the organization needed to improve its culture,…
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Social-Network Analysis: Is It the Next Big Thing?
Would you believe the next big thing in learning got its start 76 years ago? That’s when Jacob Moreno invented the sociogram, a diagram of points and lines designed to illustrate relationships and social interactions among people. From this start, social-network analysis has continued to attract the attention of philosophers, sociologists and statisticians who look…












