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Courses are Dead
When I tell training vendors “courses are dead,” they look at me as if I’d brought a skunk to their picnic. Roger Shank sums up the failure of training in four little words: “It’s just like school.” The better part of two decades of schooling has brainwashed, er convinced, us that courses are the default…
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General Motors’ Donnee Ramelli Drives Innovation to Boost Business
To address the unrelenting economic and competitive pressures General Motors has recently faced, the automaker charged Donnee Ramelli, president of General Motors University, with ensuring GM’s 80,000 employees focus on innovation, technology and mission-
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Jenny Craig: Training Toward Results
With more than 3,000 employees, Jenny Craig, Inc. continuously invests in its people through comprehensive, continuous blended learning solutions to improve the way they help clients look better, feel better and live healthier lives.
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How Much Business Is in Your Business Plan?
Over the years, I’ve reviewed many planning documents for learning organizations of all shapes and sizes. Most are internally focused and detail staff resources, budgets, planned technology purchases, planned programs and new courses. Missing in most is a strong business perspective — the outward view that brings business credibility to the learning organization. Effective business…
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PerkinElmer: Administering Growth in Learning
As workforces and operations grow, learning and development functions also must develop apace. This has led many enterprises to adopt technical modalities to deliver much, if not most, of their employee education over long distances. This strategy offers workers quicker, easier and more frequent access and consumption of learning — and also can save the…
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The Value of Emotional Intelligence
Defined as the ability to manage oneself, emotional intelligence means those possessing it have a strong awareness of their emotions and know how to manage them well. This means not letting negative emotions get in the way of personal effectiveness while
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Best Business Thinking Done Outside the Office
If you’ve ever had some of your best ideas in the shower, you’re not alone. In fact, according to a survey from NFI Research, many people say they do their best business-related thinking while they’re at home. More than half (58.3 percent) of senior executives and managers say they are most effective in personal thinking…
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Leaders, CLOs Need Financial Acumen
There is any number of critically important things leaders should learn in order to be successful in the corporate enterprise. These vary by industry and position, though universal characteristics such as relationship and team building, the ability to give and receive feedback, and a knack for motivating the workforce are all worthwhile competencies. Financial acumen,…












