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Formalizing Informal Learning
The process of learning isn’t changing, but the way we deliver and enhance it at an enterprise-wide level is. CLOs must rethink their organizational role to benefit from the rise of informal learning.
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Retaining Brain Power
Like many technology departments, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals’ information systems team battles constantly for talent. Convenient and cost-effective project management training help Wyeth keep its best and brightest.
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Heard It Through the Grapevine: Music to Learners’ Ears
If you’ve ever taught a class, you probably know how interesting it can be to watch students’ behavior when they feel lost or confused. Most don’t proudly shoot their hands up to publicly announce, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Instead, as a first line of defense, many lean over to their neighbors…
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Learning: The Non-Traditional Approach
This past fall, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years. Up-and-coming baseball general managers have followed a unique strategy that correlates to a model for next-generation learning leaders
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The CLO’s Role: Preparing for Future Challenges
In the ever-evolving business environment, the emerging role of the CLO continues to take shape. As learning executives strive to find a “seat at the table,” how will they adapt to changing needs?
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Lockheed Martin: Forming a More Perfect Union
When aviation technology firms Lockheed and Martin Marietta merged in 1995 to form the Lockheed Martin Corp., the new company faced organizational challenges from the outset. The two companies, both leaders in their fields, had to combine structurally. Even more complex, though, was the consolidation of dozens of distinct, practically self-governing business units. “We were…
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Are You Ready?
It’s 2010—do you know where your CEO is? OK, perhaps that line is a bit of an overstatement, but it’s indicative of a growing crisis: the pending labor shortage and the negative influence it promises for succession planning. Simply put, if you’re not a CLO for a company with a remarkably talented and surprisingly young…
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Business Training: The Key to Project and Long-Term Success
No one can control the economy, the balance of trade or the fluctuations in the yen versus the dollar, but you can deploy effective business training for your organization that can increase your chance for success in the long term. Business training empha












