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Will Companies Ever Learn?
When you look closely at how customers and the competitive environment are changing, it is clear that learning is critical to any business. Learning is a capability — it requires […]
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Why Wiki?
“A wiki is a group-editable Web site. Wikis are composed of Web pages you can write on, enabling fast and easy collaboration.” So says Social Text, a company that supplies […]
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SmithBucklin: Taking Care of Business with Learning
Most companies understand learning and development opportunities are a big part of what keeps them in competition for talented personnel. To be sure, they might do employee education out of […]
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Building Bridges: Lessons in Working with Business Units
When working with business unites, the main function of the learning department is to best serve the needs of learners and the overall organization. To accomplish this, many learning organizations employ one of three strategies: centralized learning, dece
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Rebecca Ray: Crediting MasterCard Learning with Business Success
When Rebecca Ray became the senior vice president of global learning and organizational development at MasterCard Worldwide in 2005, she brought with her a diverse career ranging from high school education to consulting to Wall Street.
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Leadership Development: Moving from Priority to Action
A 2005 survey conducted by Bersin & Associates found organizations spend as much as 30 percent of their corporate training dollars on leadership development. This is no surprise. Around the […]
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Survey: Holding on to Newer Employees Key to Improving Worker Retention
Twice as many employees with fewer than two years of service voluntarily leave an organization, as do those with more than two years of tenure, according to a study of worker attrition rates by Sirota Survey Intelligence, specialists in attitude research.
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Ethics Lessons in a New Era
It’s been nearly five years since Enron, but organizations still are struggling to create meaningful ethics training for their employees. And with the recent 24-year sentencing of ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, executives are beginning to see how drastic