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Effective Learning Governance Drives Business Results
A growing number of enterprises are centralizing learning capabilities and building shared service centers to enhance their learning efficiency and effectiveness. According to a 2005 study from Bersin & Associates, areas where shared services
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Keeping Vacation Time Stress-Free: The Art of Crucial Conversations
With the joy of vacation time comes a fair amount of stress at work. The wheel of the learning and development machine and the needs of the enterprise workforce don’t stop turning while you’re out.
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Running for the Ribbon
Performance matters! The stock market pays for business performance, and each of us is paid for our personal performance. As learning professionals, our efforts are aimed directly at helping others grow and perform at their best, yet the systems we use to
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Medica: Talent and Learning Management to Support Growth
Medica, a nonprofit and independent provider of health plans in Minnesota and a growing number of adjoining counties in the upper Midwest, continues to be one of the United States’ fastest-growing health plans.
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Dell: Winning Through Succession Management
For more than 20 years, Dell has continued to surpass its competitors, gain revenue and expand its customer base through innovative computing products and services, a customer-focused direct business style and a unique culture. However, the key to Dell’s
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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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Continuous Learning and Workforce Engagement
At the start of each season, legendary professional golfer Jack Nicklaus would seek out the man who had been his coach and mentor since his early teens, and he would relearn the sport, from the very beginning.
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LandAmerica: Selling a New Learning Structure
About five years ago, LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. changed its historically franchise-based operations style and molded its decentralized structure into a centralized, streamlined corporate entity with standardized processes and procedures.