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Virtual Collaboration: Engaging Learning Through Technology
Virtual collaboration, which uses technology to bring people together, can help people achieve their goals. Learning and development leaders should use virtual collaboration to help people learn, practice and apply new knowledge and skills.
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Multi-Sourcing: Achieving Growth and Agility
The practice of outsourcing training is following well-established patterns in other areas, such as payroll, customer service and IT. So today, the question a business-savvy training executive should ask is not, "Do we outsource?&quot
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The Children’s Place: Customizing Vendor Products for New-Hire Orientation
At The Children’s Place Retail Stores Inc., the most important aspect is keeping customers happy. A leading specialty retailer of children’s merchandise for newborns to 10-year-olds, the company designs, manufactures […]
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Implementing Learning-How-to-Learn Strategies
How can a learning organization facilitate learning? Perhaps the answer is as simple as returning to the fundamentals of education, which focus the learner on the "how" of learning.
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Semantics
Several years ago, a manager told a forum that his company’s attempt to consolidate dozens of training efforts was bogged down for three months while they struggled for a consensus […]
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AOL’s Thomas Lokar: Accelerating Leadership and Learning in Line With Business Strategies
AOL has experienced a rebirth over the past three years, aided in no small part by the company’s learning and development organization and its leaders, Vice President of People Development and Talent Acquisition Thomas Lokar.
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Prudential Financial: Growing Money and Learning Efficiency
The Prudential Financial slogan, ‘Growing and Protecting Your Wealth,’ parallels the company’s stance on learning. Prudential has created a learning and development strategy based on vendor partnerships and the formation of high-
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Millennials Seek Balance, Continuing Education
After 14 to 18 or more years of school, one might expect that students would be eager to get out of a learning environment. However, according to a recent survey, soon-to-graduate college students of the millennial generation highly rank potential employe