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Looking Forward: The Training Industry in 2007
With the war for talent in full swing, CLOs are thrust into a more strategic role as company leaders look to them to help address a wide range of talent management issue. Learning is no longer just about training — it’s not seen as a strategic function th
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The Home Depot’s Leslie Joyce: Laying the Foundation for an Effective Workforce
For The Home Depot’s Leslie Joyce, the mantra “Measure twice; cut once” resonates on more than one level.
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Survey: Half of Employers Plan to Emphasize, Fund Executive Training More in ’07
About half of employers in the United States aim to increase money spent on and time devoted to supervisory and executive-level training and development in 2007, according to a survey by Novations Group.
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Social Networking as a Learning Tool
Social networking sites such as MySpace.com and YouTube.com have become so popular that well-known companies such as Google are taking notice — it recently purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion.
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Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
When smart people make dumb mistakes, it usually isn’t because of stupidity, ignorance or apathy — smart people make dumb mistakes because they’ve been seduced by their own success.
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Learning Tools: New Tricks for Non-Technical Learners
Blended learning can be a no-brainer for many companies: It’s fast, flexible and often affordable. However, blended learning also can prove to be a difficult method for some non-technical learners. To increase effectiveness, blended learning should be bot
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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 skills. It also requires processes and leaders who value it. Someone in your organization has to decide learning is strategic, that it’s connected to the…
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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 enterprise wiki software to more than 2,000 organizations, including Nokia and Kodak. Why should a CLO care about wikis? Because learning is social — people…












