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Tuition Assistance Planning: Delivering Happy Endings
Big Company Inc. decided to offer a great new employee benefit, create some basic policies for employee use and establish an administrative process that would track expenses. Big Company Inc. spent millions of dollars each year for this employee benefit.
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U.S. Navy: Steering Strategy With Executive Development
In order to modernize various strategies within the organization, the Navy established a new position, executive learning officer (ELO), to initiate customized learning programs for senior naval leadership. For most […]
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Grooming the Next CLO
Chief learning officers often play a significant role in the succession planning activities for an organization. However, some evidence suggests that CLOs are not succeeding in developing their own staff to take on top-level learning executive positions w
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Torstar Corp.: Risk-Free Employee Development
Torstar Corp., a global media company with interests that include the Toronto Star and the popular Harlequin book-publishing line, has made simulation training a key part of its employee development offerings. Simulations, which allow for a significant le
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Weirdos in the Workplace
Individuality’s place in the enterprise is underrated, and teamwork can be overrated. Having a few weirdos on staff can be a good thing as long as they contribute value, said John Putzier, president of FirStep Inc., a human resource performance improvemen
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City of Naperville: Building Teams Through Accountable Learning
In December 2003, the City of Naperville, a Chicago suburb with a population of nearly 140,000, was named by Money Magazine as the most desirable place to live in the central United States, among cities with populations greater than 100,000. Approximately
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Courage Is Caged in the Workplace
Breakdowns and disruptions that hinder an organization’s advancement rarely have to do with unskilled employees or employees missing �hard skills.� Why? Most people are hired based on their technical, theoretical and strategic hard skills. During the
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Transition Coaching Accelerates Leadership Success
Wouldn’t it be fabulous if new players could “hit the ground running” every time they’re pulled from the bench? In a perfect world, that would be great—but in everyday life, it’s not likely to happen, even if the players know the rules of the game and com











