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Pilot Travel Centers: Fueling Consistent Training
Pilot Travel Centers, headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn. and founded in 1958, is the nation’s largest operator of travel centers. Pilot Travel Centers employs approximately 14,000 employees in 260 locations located in 39 states. The company employs team members in a wide variety of occupations, beginning with hourly field positions such as cashiers and restaurant workers,…
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Blended Solutions: Assuring Knowledge Retention
In the age of personalization, customization can aid in knowledge retention. Blended learning solutions were created just for this purpose – to address the many personalized training needs and learning environments of employees.
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CLO Contributions: Setting Expectations, Driving Effectiveness
During times of change and growth, executives are calling on CLOs to drive success within the learning function as well as across the enterprise. Organizations need CLOs to contribute in the areas of innovation, collaboration and performance.
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Satyam Computer Services Ltd.: Growing Global Leaders
Executive coaching is still a fairly new phenomenon in Asia, where Satyam Computer Services Ltd. is headquartered. Senior Vice President Ed Cohen said mentoring has been a more prevalent technique in the region. Although mentoring offers many of the same benefits as coaching, the company has made the latter an important piece of its latest…
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Leadership Coaching: Developing Effective Executives
Despite coaching’s popularity, many companies still question its effectiveness. As a result, many L&D professionals wonder if their organizations should offer coaching, if coaching can become more scalable, and how they can increase the predic
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Providing Learning for New Technical Leaders Challenging
It’s probably not surprising that when developing learning interventions to help technical professionals transition into new positions as leaders, much of the development focus is in the soft-skill arena. According to Mary Ann Masarech, director of Employ
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Corporate Learning Trends You Can Use
On the surface, trends and business are a perfect fit. But if the description isn’t relevant, corporate learning trends can mislead businesses. Trends are notoriously fickle, but the Corporate University Xchange has come up with several corporate learning
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Kaiser Permanente, Director
Untitled Document Kaiser Permanente, Director, Learning and Development, Southern California Region – Pasadena, CA The Director, L&D, reporting to VP, HR, SoCal, manages a team 19. Responsibilities: build a robust new employee entry process; ensure education related to HR regulatory requirements; create learning strategy for leader development at team leader, supervisory, and middle management levels;…












