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Survey: Business Return on Rewards Investment Hard to Determine
Learning leaders, HR professionals and advocates of employee development all strive to persuade their companies to increase funding for rewards programs. Their rallying cry is that such investments ultimately increase productivity, employee morale and ret
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Honoring Excellence
Last year, we humbled an executive at one of the world’s largest companies. Two years ago, we nearly made a general cry. What can possibly be in store this year? […]
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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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Techniques and Best Practices for Measuring Training Effectiveness
Many still view the measurement of training effectiveness as a black art. But in five years of research, I have identified key philosophies, techniques and best practices that are practical […]
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From CLO to Consultant: New Career Opportunities
Many CLOs and other learning professionals who become fed up with the bureaucracies of the corporate environment pursue independent consulting. However, building a successful consulting practice is not as easy as it looks.
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Winston & Strawn: Updating Tech Skills
It isn’t always easy to get senior leadership into corporate learning programs because of the difficulty carving time out of their busy schedules for training. For law firm Winston & […]
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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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Misinformation Management: Measuring Workforce Knowledge
Regardless of industry, the objective of education is to support the business operation. However, as businesses grow, many organizations track training milestones without tracking direct improvements to the business.