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Defense Acquisition University Expands Engagement with Tomoye
Ottawa, Ontario — May 1 The U.S. Defense Acquisition University (DAU) has expanded its existing contract with Tomoye, adding licenses for 7,000 new seats of Tomoye Ecco. DAU has added seats for its Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) community to keep pace with the rapid enrolment of new members on a monthly basis. DAU provides mandatory,…
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Google Teams Up with Personal Democracy Forum, Creates 2007 Conference Scholarships
New York — May 1 Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) — a conference that examines how Internet technology and trends are reinventing politics — has announced that Google has created 40 full scholarships for this year’s conference, to be held May 18. Successful applicants will receive free admission based on professional experience, passion for politics and…
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Five Ways to Use Social Networking for Learning
Why should CLOs care about social networking for learning? Because social networking can improve organizational problems such as sharing knowledge, brain drain, multigenerational learning, competency management and talent management. Let’s look at five characteristics of social networking and how one organization successfully uses social networking to support learning and to maintain a competitive advantage. 1.…
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Domino’s Pizza: Supporting Leadership Development in 30 Minutes or Less
When not taking steps to “Avoid the Noid,” the leadership and organizational development team at Domino’s Pizza incorporates technology into its overall leadership development efforts to facilitate a blended learning approach. With more than 8,000 locations in more than 54 countries, Domino’s needs a cost-effective way to reach out to a broad audience to support…
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Technologies to Support Leadership Development
The tendency to "tech up" presentations and training, often without considering if we should, has proliferated learning and development. We need to evaluate how to match technologies to the content rather than designing a program
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University Health Systems: Measures of Success
As with employee education itself, metrics aren’t worth doing just for their own sake — they have to be tied to something meaningful to have any impact on the way things work in an organization. Thus, any system of measurement has to consider how particular learning and development initiatives (or those of any other function)…
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Improving Productivity Through Coaching and Mentoring
Although coaching and mentoring seem similar on the surface, the two techniques — and their applications — can have substantially different effects in the workplace.
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CLO Results and Related Responsibilities
At the Spring 2007 CLO Symposium, attendees were asked to write the ideal CLO job description. The following points are their synthesized ideas: Exercise Meaningful Business Influence Essential source of highly relevant human capital guidance to other C-level executives. Critical leadership contribution to key business decisions and changes. Continuing cultivation of the company’s culture and…












