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The Baby Boomer Exodus: Educating Those Left Behind
More than 40 years after the first wave of baby boomers entered the U.S. workforce, those same workers are getting ready to leave it. Learning leaders must adopt smart strategies to ensure that remaining employees have the necessary knowledge.
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Allstate’s Dave Groff: Ensuring Opportunities for Improvement
At Allstate, senior executives want evidence that learning provides measurable value. With more than 20 years of experience, CLO Dave Groff provides that ROI and ensures that learning is in good hands.
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Ford: Driving Learning and Development ‘Way Forward’
Facing growing competition, Ford Motor Company sharpened its focus to create a performance culture in which all employees contribute to business results. Learning is a strategic tool to ensure that Ford builds the best and brightest talent in the auto ind
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Informally Speaking: Is There Support for Informal Learning?
To support employees in an ever-changing business environment, smart companies invest in formal training. Still smarter companies take a more holistic approach to ensure informal learning is supported as well.
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Understanding Goal Alignment Models
Alignment: It’s the term that describes the continuous process of mobilizing enterprise resources to execute company objectives. For several years, organizations have grappled with how to align their most critical enterprise resource—the workforce. Thus f
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The Hidden ROI of Training
Employee training can be a hard sell sometimes. Even though having a well-trained workforce is widely known to be a key driver to a company’s success, too often the training program is viewed as an expense rather than an investment.
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Top Ten Strategies to Market Training to Your Workforce
With the emergence of e-learning and reduced training budgets, learning executives need well-conceived training rollouts and marketing strategies that get their programs fully employed. In this new age of training, you’ve probably found it necessary to ho
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Five Things to Tell Others About E-Learning
A CLO colleague of mine recently asked me what he should be discussing with his group in this giant Midwestern firm about e-learning. It�s the standard �What is hype and what is real?� question. He knew I have been an early advocate and full-time re