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Corporate Learning Trends You Can Use
On the surface, trends and business are a perfect fit. But if the description isn’t relevant, corporate learning trends can mislead businesses. Trends are notoriously fickle, but the Corporate University Xchange has come up with several corporate learning
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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? The wait is just about over. As you might have guessed, it’s time once again to accept nominations for Chief Learning Officer magazine’s…
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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 and really work. The goal of training measurement is to deliver useful information for decision-making. You must collect consistent, repeatable data so you can make…
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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 & Strawn LLP, which operates in dozens of practice areas ranging from litigation to lobbying, this presents a critical challenge for learning and development. Out of…
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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.












