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Globality and Futurity: Innovation Frameworks for 21st-Century Training
Just a handful of years into the 21st century, fierce competition quickly is becoming one of the most notable attributes in the business landscape. Survival has replaced growth as the first order of business. But why now? What is so special and urgent abo
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Management Training for Emerging Leaders in the Balkans
Through USAID’s e-Biz project, new Macedonian companies could leverage information and communications technologies to create emerging market opportunities for ailing local industries. Due to its success, other countries — and companies — might want to tak
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Building Leaders Over Time: Leveraging the Value of Learning
In our highly demanding world, there seems to be little time and support for people to reflect on learning experiences and to integrate new knowledge into their enterprises. This decreases the potential value of leadership development programs to the extent that business leadership questions the ROI. To meet this challenge, many organizations and leading business…
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Learning Tools: New Tricks for Non-Technical Learners
Blended learning can be a no-brainer for many companies: It’s fast, flexible and often affordable. However, blended learning also can prove to be a difficult method for some non-technical learners. To increase effectiveness, blended learning should be bot
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Learners as Co-Innovators
One of the most powerful concepts to be uncovered at the World Economic Forum this year was open-source innovation. Open-source innovation ensures the most useful ideas find their way into an organization’s strategy and operational plan. Such openness allows for a less top-down approach to innovation so that new ideas and input come from a…
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Why Wiki?
“A wiki is a group-editable Web site. Wikis are composed of Web pages you can write on, enabling fast and easy collaboration.” So says Social Text, a company that supplies enterprise wiki software to more than 2,000 organizations, including Nokia and Kodak. Why should a CLO care about wikis? Because learning is social — people…
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Orkin University: Abuzz with Learning and Development
Orkin’s television commercials highlight the Orkin Man, a confident, can-do individual who can eliminate virtually any insect or related problem. In real life, however, it’s up to another Orkin Man — David Lamb, vice president of learning and media servic
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Workplace Trends And Leadership Resolutions For 2007
With 2007 just around the corner, it seems only fitting that my last column for the year focus on examining some trends and resolutions for the New Year … and beyond. Based on the findings of a variety of research reports, as well as my own experiences, some critical workplace trends and issues have come…












