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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
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida: Rapid Learning On Demand
As one of the largest providers of health care insurance in Florida, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida serves more than 8.3 million people. With approximately 300 internal employees and 5,000 external employees distributed across the state, the compan
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Tools for On-Demand Information
As a society that increasingly embraces—and is embraced by—technology, we’ve come to expect that almost any information, technology or entertainment resource we want will be available on demand. From 24-hour cable news channels to downloading the latest












