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The New CLO
The challenges are mounting for CLOs. The upcoming retirement of the baby boomer generation will bring significant knowledge gaps, and the incoming generation of employees has a very different learning style. Most enterprises will expect people to develop new competencies at a faster pace than ever before as product life cycles get shorter and organizations…
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Siebel: Virtual Labs Enable Global Learning
Virtual technology followed closely on the heels of e-learning as the next big thing to replace instructor-led classroom learning with one notable exception: E-learning has to be specially adapted to get the same impact as classroom programs, and even then it doesn’t always cut it due to a lack of interactivity. Virtual technology, on the…
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U.S. GAO: Crafting the Perfect Job Description
If someone were thinking about becoming a CLO and went looking for the perfect senior-level learning leader job description, what would it say? What competencies would the position demand? Would they relate to specific industry experience? Would the description highlight a tried-and-true educational path featuring learning and organizational development courses or perhaps hands-on work as…
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Courses are Dead
When I tell training vendors “courses are dead,” they look at me as if I’d brought a skunk to their picnic. Roger Shank sums up the failure of training in four little words: “It’s just like school.” The better part of two decades of schooling has brainwashed, er convinced, us that courses are the default…
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Learning’s Leap of Faith
You’ve seen me discuss in this space the CLO Symposium, our conference program that brings together learning and development thought leaders from around the world. It’s not the facts of the program that I dwell on, but the amazing levels of discussion and discourse that take place there. The CLO Symposium is becoming the industry’s…
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Jenny Craig: Training Toward Results
With more than 3,000 employees, Jenny Craig, Inc. continuously invests in its people through comprehensive, continuous blended learning solutions to improve the way they help clients look better, feel better and live healthier lives.
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Study: Adult Learners Fit Into Four Distinct Categories
The phrase “college student” usually conjures up images of young, scruffy, fun-loving, slightly intoxicated, “Animal House” types throwing the Frisbee around the quad. However, these “traditional” 18- to 22-year-old full-time undergraduate students residi
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Simulations in Management Education
These days, simulations aren’t just for mastering technical and operation skills. Today, simulations have entered management training, using mission critical and advanced strategic-thinking games that mirror business scenarios such as mergers, acquisition












