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Quality Control: Lessons from (and for) Mid-Market Companies
The challenges learning and development organizations face can intensify for mid-market companies. Due to limited communication with senior leadership, IT-infrastructure confines and budget constraints, many mid-market companies struggle to establish lear
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Best Practices in Learning Governance
Many organizations now view learning less as a cost center and more as a driver of enterprise value. With this shift in perception, enterprise-learning governance becomes more important and more strategic to an organization’s ability to thrive.
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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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Why Businesspeople Speak Like Idiots
If the terms "internal action learning" and "a planful approach" leave you baffled, you’re not alone. The learning industry, possibly more so than other industries, needs to learn how to avoid jargon and
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How Much Business Is in Your Business Plan?
Over the years, I’ve reviewed many planning documents for learning organizations of all shapes and sizes. Most are internally focused and detail staff resources, budgets, planned technology purchases, planned programs and new courses. Missing in most is a strong business perspective — the outward view that brings business credibility to the learning organization. Effective business…
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PerkinElmer: Administering Growth in Learning
As workforces and operations grow, learning and development functions also must develop apace. This has led many enterprises to adopt technical modalities to deliver much, if not most, of their employee education over long distances. This strategy offers workers quicker, easier and more frequent access and consumption of learning — and also can save the…
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Leaders, CLOs Need Financial Acumen
There is any number of critically important things leaders should learn in order to be successful in the corporate enterprise. These vary by industry and position, though universal characteristics such as relationship and team building, the ability to give and receive feedback, and a knack for motivating the workforce are all worthwhile competencies. Financial acumen,…
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CLOs with Top-Tier Negotiation Skills Have Greater Business Impact
It’s only recently that CLO’s have been given a seat at the senior-level executive table. Learning to negotiate is key to keeping them there.












