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Getting It Right: How to Learn From the Past
In the past decade, I have had the opportunity to review the effectiveness (or lack of it) of at least 100 learning and development centers and corporate universities. A center and its programs are often impressive on paper, but a deeper analysis sometime
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The Power of the Human Voice
One of the most powerful and underused learning tools readily available to the CLO is the recorded human voice. With widely dispersed knowledge workers whose expertise is in need of constant updating and expansion, it is surprising how few companies use t
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Effective Learning Governance Drives Business Results
A growing number of enterprises are centralizing learning capabilities and building shared service centers to enhance their learning efficiency and effectiveness. According to a 2005 study from Bersin & Associates, areas where shared services
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Are You Measuring the Right Things?
There is a saying in business: What gets measured gets done. Organizations that effectively manage their measures achieve superior results. In all sectors, leaders use measures to drive organizational improvement and outperform their competitors. Howeve
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Engaging Learners With Gaming and Simulations
With technology advancing so rapidly, online learning practices are embracing more interactive, immersive and effective learning methods. More importantly, as technology becomes more widespread, adoption becomes smarter, and we learn how to use it to achi
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The Nexus of Learning: The Intersection of Formal and Informal Education
In the beginning, there was learning, and it was unstructured. From the primordial ooze of early man’s brain came the concept of on-the-job training.
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Top-Performing Organizations Connect Leadership Development and Financial Success
Leadership development has long been linked to the execution of successful business strategies, but a recent study from leadership development solutions provider Ninth House has uncovered several trends of top-performing organizations as well as a financi
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What’s the Difference Between Learning and Training?
The words learning and training have five letters in common and touch the same field of interest—education. Often the words are used interchangeably, but some say there is a subtle distinction between the two. Of course, definitions for that distinction v












