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Corporate University Administrator
SCANA, a $9 billion, Fortune 500, energy-based holding company, is seeking a seasoned project leader to manage the operations of our corporate university at the company’s Columbia, South Carolina headquarters.
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Survey: Despite High Level of Learning Offered, Participation Rate is Low
Employees do not always partake in the learning opportunities offered at work, even though a great deal are offered, according to a survey by NFI Research.
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Imperial College London’s Medical School Collaborates with Tata Interactive Systems
London — May 2 Working with Imperial College London (ICL)’s Medical School, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has developed a series of software learning applications chiefly for use among the school’s students. These simulation-based learning programmes — known as “process emulators” — deal with aspects of diabetes and its treatment, specifically covering controlling glucose levels in…
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Manage Learning, Talent with SumTotal
Mountain View, Calif. — May 1 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has selected SumTotal Systems Inc., a global provider of talent and learning management solutions, to build an online university for about 500 employees across the United States. The online university will be an easily accessible portal for employees to find information related to professional…
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Quantify Launches Approach to Identify, Analyze 360-Degree Feedback
London — May 1 Quantify, an organizational research company, has launched an approach to identifying and analyzing 360-degree feedback. Unlike a generic 360-degree feedback system, Quantify’s approach provides feedback relating a particular manager’s behaviors directly to her/his employer’s own competencies framework. This provides guidance toward development activities, which will help participants to meet any of…
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Domino’s Pizza: Supporting Leadership Development in 30 Minutes or Less
When not taking steps to “Avoid the Noid,” the leadership and organizational development team at Domino’s Pizza incorporates technology into its overall leadership development efforts to facilitate a blended learning approach. With more than 8,000 locations in more than 54 countries, Domino’s needs a cost-effective way to reach out to a broad audience to support…
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Prisoners in the Classroom: Revisiting the Rules of Engagement
As learning leaders, all of us have faced “the class from hell.” Think back for a moment to that morning that you tried so hard to forget … You were excited about the topic and inspired by your own notable performance during the train-the-trainer (everyone told you so). You prepared thoughtful slides, you wrote practical…
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University Health Systems: Measures of Success
As with employee education itself, metrics aren’t worth doing just for their own sake — they have to be tied to something meaningful to have any impact on the way things work in an organization. Thus, any system of measurement has to consider how particular learning and development initiatives (or those of any other function)…












