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Becoming a Value-Added Business Partner
For years, CLOs have heard about the importance of being a “value-added” business partner. In fact, many have become respected and valuable business partners to fellow members of the C-suite. Unfortunately, many CLOs are better at talking about being a value-added resource than actually being one. Take a few minutes to answer the following questions,…
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Learning Strategies: Blended Instruction
With employees stretched ever thinner, it’s important to get the most out of time spent learning face-to-face. Delivering content through blended methods prior to classroom time helps everyone maximize the benefits of the learning experience.
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Randstad: Demonstrating Success in Learning
International staffing firm Randstad Holding, which connects approximately 250,000 provisional personnel to businesses in 17 countries every day, touts the motto, “We put people to work.” A corollary of that adage might be, “We prepare people for work.” The organization has provided professional learning programs for more than a million temporary employees, as well as…
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Connecting CLOs With the Recruiting Process
Recruiting new employees involves workforce planning, attracting new employees and getting new faces oriented to their work environment. CLOs can be valuable partners to human resources, every step of the way.
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Banco Popular: Connecting a Workforce to Learning
Banco Popular North America began its tradition of providing banking services to the under-served in Puerto Rico in 1893. Now, Banco Popular has approximately 2,000 employees in California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas. These “DreamMakers” bring the organization’s shared values and agreements to life for its customers. “Shared agreements represent what people…
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Useful Things
CLOs face so many decisions, weigh so many priorities and have to keep up with so many new things every day that they can use all the help they can get. The New Yorker once published a cartoon titled “Useful Things.” Pictured were a paperclip, a nail file, a Swiss Army knife and $10,000 in…
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The Complete CLO
As you know, learning leaders often write in these pages about the strengths and successes of the professional development programs administered at progressive organizations. These same learning executives speak at length at our CLO Symposiums and other events about the benefits derived from the most basic element of the CLO position, developing the professional skills…
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Stephen B. King: The Engine Behind Learning at Constellation Energy
As CLO for Constellation Energy, an energy supplier with a diversified fleet of generating units, multiple lines of business and customers in nearly three-dozen states and Canada, Stephen B. King must empower nearly 10,000 employees through learning.












