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Top-Performing Organizations Connect Leadership Development and Financial Success
Leadership development has long been linked to the execution of successful business strategies, but a recent study from leadership development solutions provider Ninth House has uncovered several trends of top-performing organizations as well as a financi
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Beyond the Talk About Blended Learning
Are you skeptical about blended learning? There has been a lot of talk about blending, and any topic that’s on everybody’s lips isn’t typically on mine.
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Learning Trends to Watch in 2006
As we enter 2006, how will our priorities change? Here are four trends to watch. Delivery for the ’Net Generation Today’s college students, dubbed the ’Net generation, born between 1980 and 1994, will be entering the workplace in a few years.
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InterContinental Hotels Group: In This Lobby, Learning and Performance Link
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has more than 3,600 hotels with more than a half-million guest rooms in almost 100 countries and territories. Each year some 120 million people stay at InterContinental Hotels Group brands, including Crown Plaza Hotels
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Looking Forward: The Learning & Development Industry in 2006
Each year brings with it a mix of new potential challenges and solutions for chief learning officers everywhere. With 2006 upon us, IDC asked Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Business Intelligence Board which areas of the learning and development industr
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Leveraging Technology for Improved Sales Performance
How can you measure the impact of technology and training on business, and more particularly, the sales function? The past 10 years have introduced e-mail, Web meetings and customer relationship management (CRM) software to businesses at a blistering pace, and while millions of dollars are being invested in various IT systems and initiatives, quantifying it…
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Strategic Alignment – SILVER: Ted Hoff, Vice President, Learning, IBM
Aligning learning activity to the strategic goals of the business is one of the most critical necessities when creating effective learning and development opportunities for an organization. IBM Vice President of Learning Ted Hoff has mastered methods to create that integral link between business needs and learning solutions that ultimately will deliver value to the…
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Strategic Alignment – GOLD: Suellen Roth, Vice President, Global Policy Compliance, Diversity & Avaya University, Avaya
As the head of Avaya University, Suellen Roth understands how her organization supports the enterprise. About four years ago, Avaya, a leading provider of communications systems, applications and services worldwide, had to meet a tough timetable for new product launches to retain and expand its share in the Internet protocol services market. To accomplish this,…












