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Building Leaders and Driving Change
In tough times, the argument goes, leadership development is the first thing to cut. Maybe so for some organizations, but not necessarily for forward-looking companies. From the worst of times comes the best of times, and organizations with hopes of capit
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Learning Styles: What’s Right for Your Enterprise?
When I was a child, admittedly now a long, long time ago, one of the most favorite games we played in school and in our neighborhood was �Simon Says.� The rules of the game are incredibly simple: Do exactly, but only, what Simon tells you to do. If th
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Collaborative Tools for e-Learning
When my colleague Padma Medury and I conducted a survey on collaborative technologies and groupware in 1990, little did we know the degree to which Web-based tools would reshape and elevate this field. We discovered conferencing and collaboration tools fo
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Steelcase: Migrating Employees to New Systems
Ranked number 425 on the Fortune 500 list, and with more than $4 billion in revenue in 2001, Steelcase is the undisputed leader in the global office furniture industry. When faced with a company-wide migration from version 3.1 of SAP to version 4.6, Steel
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Environment – The CLO’s Role: Balancing the Learning Mix in Outsourced Environments
With the evolving development of the information-based economy and the increasing need for high-performance employees, intellectual capital is becoming the most critical resource in the corporation. This means that those […]
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Training Your Teams in Downsized Environments
The events of Sept. 11 rocked the airline industry to its core. To an enterprise that had weathered the storms of fuel embargos, mergers, devastating air disasters and labor unrest, there was simply no precedent for the impact of an event of this magnitud
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The Critical Element of an Enterprise Learning Strategy
If there is a single role that differentiates the CLO from other learning professionals, it is that the CLO must set the overall learning strategy for the enterprise. But what is a learning strategy, and what does it include? The most important element o
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Stephen E. Scholl: Ensuring Allstate’s Education
When Stephen E. Scholl graduated from Albright College in 1979, he was armed with a sociology degree and a healthy respect for education. And while he didn�t start out to be a teacher, a provider of educational opportunities is just what he became nonet











