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Brookhaven National Laboratory: The Power of the Learner-Centric Approach
The staff development office at Brookhaven offers a wide variety of seminars and workshops—some of them mandatory. Currently the office is working hard to find ways in which workforce training […]
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Kevin Wilde: Providing Food for Thought at General Mills
If you work with kiddie cereals and yogurt for a living, it pays to have a sense of humor and a sweet tooth. If you’re responsible for educating 27,000 employees worldwide, it also pays to have a flexible attitude and a committed plan for training and de
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The CFO: Your Strongest Ally?
A new trend is emerging in major U.S. corporations that will ultimately have a major impact on CLOs: Chief financial officers are paying closer attention to human resources as a business driver. Much is being written about the new emphasis on workforce pe
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Collaborating With Universities to Create a Continuous Learning Culture
Four years ago, a South Dakota-based health care organization developed a partnership with a local university to offer an online nursing degree program for its employees. Around the same time, an Illinois manufacturer brought a local university on-site to
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Flying in Formation: The Organizational Commitment of Training and Development
Organizations around the world continue efforts to maximize the productivity of their employees in the face of competitive, legislative and socioeconomic change. More and more, senior learning professionals are being asked to enhance employee performance
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Communicate Value With a Learning Annual Report
Measuring the value of an organization’s investment in learning continues to be one of the five most pressing challenges facing chief learning officers, according to a recent Online CLO Forum conducted by Accenture Learning. CLOs voiced the need to be bet
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Aligning Learning With Strategy
CLOs are pressured to justify their investments in learning. A CLO always has to answer the CEO’s questions: Why should we invest in this learning program, and how will it help us execute our strategy? And how can we measure the return on this investment?
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Building Accountability and Credibility in the Learning Process
Two things that have plagued the training industry include an absence of accountability to the businesses it serves and a lack of credibility with its various audiences. Two questions often raised are: How does one assess whether a user has learned someth