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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Content
Gold Experience Willow NCR Corp. has struggled to meet its new employees’ onboarding and learning needs. Some 6,000 people across 100 countries are hired each year, and more than 60 percent are millennials. Head of the New Employee Experience Team, or NEET, Wendy Smith proposed the development of a comprehensive new hire onboarding and blending…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Community Service
Gold VitalSmarts The Knowledge is Power Program is a national network of 162 schools in 20 states that focus on preparing students from educationally underserved communities for college. But it had a problem — its founding school leaders kept dropping out. Of those who opened schools in 2006, about half remained after four years. KIPP…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Blended Technology
Gold Intrepid Learning Inc. When Microsoft Corp. decided to transition its business from on-premise enterprise software to cloud-based solutions the company discovered a learning gap that needed to be filled. Suddenly the 15,000 employees in its sales force worldwide needed to increase their business acumen — quickly. The entire sales force needed to be up…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Gaming and Simulations
Gold Pinsight For public school educators, multiple-choice tests may still work well for a fifth-grade math test. But when it comes to educating the educators on leadership skills, a true-false pop quiz just won’t make the grade. In the mile-high air of Denver, educators with Denver Public Schools follow the credo “Don’t Wait. Lead,” which…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Trailblazer Division 2 Winners
Gold Joseph Malta Director of Learning and Development, ABC Cos. In an effort to develop internal leaders, ABC Cos. needed to create on-site learning resources. It teamed up with new leader, Joseph Malta, manager of learning and development, to identify business needs and skill gaps, then created content for ABC University. To start, the small…
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Learning in Practice 2015: Excellence in Academic Partnerships
Gold Penn State Smeal College of Business A partnership between Saudi Basic Industries Corp., or SABIC, and Penn State Executive Programs of the Smeal College of Business developed learning programs for the SABIC supply chain to accelerate career development, and identify opportunities to substantially reduce working capital. To accelerate recruitment, development and promotion for the…
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What’s Good for Gen Y Is Good for Business
For change-savvy learning leaders, considering Gen Y’s learning preferences isn’t a nice thing to do, it’s a necessity.
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Don’t Believe the Self-Directed Learning Hype
Learning leaders need to have a serious talk about where self-directed learning makes sense and where business-directed learning makes sense.



















