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ThoughtWorks: Matching Content to Employee Needs
ThoughtWorks Inc., an IT professional services firm offering application development and advanced systems integration, found significant value in its newly formed ThoughtWorks University, which includes a comprehensive new-hire onboarding program that takes place over several months in Bangalore, India. In addition to providing the essential background and skill development for new ThoughtWorks employees, the Bangalore…
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What’s Your Ideal Learning Organization?
If you were unconstrained by time, money or a lack of resources, what would your ideal learning organization look like? What processes and procedures would you implement if you had the juice to do exactly what you wanted to bring stellar learning and deve
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U.S. Birth Rates: Implications for Learning Leaders
If you’re considering the ethnic and racial makeup of your office with regard to creating future learning and development programs, information published in this year’s World Population Data Sheet should be of interest. The Data Sheet is a wall chart that
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VP, Talent Management
Use learning and organizational development expertise to lead the learning team in delivering high quality programs/interventions that are aligned with Magellan’s operational goals and that improve employee performance. Scope includes leadership & executive development, discipline specific learning and general employee development. Provide consultative services to internal clients on organizational design, work process, leadership coaching and…
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Earn a Master’s in Coaching, Cement Organizational Value
The field of executive coaching has seen tremendous growth over the past 20 years. Unfortunately, many of the coaches who’ve been working in the market have little training to qualify their efforts, thus little credibility. Until recently, there was no ac
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Your Primary Strategic Tool
At any moment, a new kind of product, a new competitor or a market shift can make your business obsolete. The CLOs challenge is to be prepared for these eventualities.
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Awakening Courage Leadership, Part 1
In good and bad times, courage leadership is essential for CLOs to help employees develop the self-esteem to speak up about right and wrong in the enterprise. One size of courage does not fit all.
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Cracking the Code
When it comes to spotting patterns in the evolution of technology and learning, sometimes the informal conversations at professional conferences can be the most insightful. Discussions at Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Spring 2005 Symposium—when seen collectively—begin to reveal such a pattern. Steven Schuller, vice president of Wyndham International, revealed that he is developing knowledge networks…












