Measurement
The overall performance of a business can be measured in a number of ways. Its success can be evaluated based on the organization’s training and learning programs, and its ability to adapt to change.
Targeting Training Through Skills Testing
Business leaders face a challenge when hiring new employees: how to get the best possible fit between the people they hire and the jobs that the new employees will perform.
Financial Training: The CFO University
Should your company invest in financial training? The fact is, your company can’t afford not to.
Product Rollouts: The Impact of Learning
The combination of live, online training sessions, recorded training, rapid e-learning tutorials, live question-and-answer sessions and a thriving online community creates the most optimal environment.
E-Learning Strategies for Success
Efficient use of human capital is a priority for organizations large and small. It means knowing that key personnel have the required knowledge and skills to make decisions and succeed in their jobs. Knowledge management becomes a challenge to organizatio
Emergent Learning
Not so long ago, e-learning was a utopian dream. Networked learning would educate the world. E-learning promoters saw themselves as innovators writing corporate history. Excitement filled the air. That future has arrived. Today a healthy percentage of
Moving Toward Second-Generation E-Learning
One of the key problems addressed and solved by e-learning is instructor variability. Avoiding the extremes of creativity and ordinariness, e-learning instructional designers have opted for the solid middle road of competence. In the process of channeling
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
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
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
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
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