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Innovation Hits Home
As I write this month’s editor’s letter, we are about two weeks away from our Fall CLO Symposium in Bonita Springs, Fla. The theme of this conference will be Innovations in Enterprise Education and Leadership Development. We have a great group of speakers
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Learning Economics: Balancing Time & Investment
Because my first degree is in economics, I have always been interested in the relationships between different variables. Learning organizations often use training investment level as a percentage of payroll (input variable) and the average number of train
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Improv Education
The first wave of e-learning brochures invariably touted the benefits of focusing on the learner. Schools and classes had always been organized for the convenience of the faculty—one size fits all. In the e-era, learners received personalized instruction—
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Administaff: Driving Performance Through Education
Serving more than 4,500 client companies in different industries, and some 78,000 work-site employees in four regional service centers and 38 sales offices around the country, Administaff has to meet the learning and development needs of a disparate popul
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Kathy Sutter: Creating a Balanced Toolkit for Learning
Office Depot offers endless rows of colorful pens, folders and gadgets designed to make working easier, more organized and efficient. A former schoolteacher for grades 4-8, Kathy Sutter, vice president of leadership development and global learning for Off
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U.S. Navy: Steering Strategy With Executive Development
In order to modernize various strategies within the organization, the Navy established a new position, executive learning officer (ELO), to initiate customized learning programs for senior naval leadership. For most of the Navy’s history, high-ranking officers were selected according to how well they operated their particular weapon system, whether it was a surface ship, submarine…
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Nektar Therapeutics: Collaborating in Compliance
Because the biomedical field is so heavily regulated, one of Nektar’s greatest challenges is keeping up with industry and government standards, which are often complex and frequently altered. To keep up, not only are company employees in training continually, but also the learning programs that they use are continually updated. “The content is modified nightly,…
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The Lean Enterprise: Combating Waste
No enterprise can rest easy in today’s economy—not if it expects to be around for the long haul. The astute enterprise scrambles for every advantage it can muster. Companies looking to control costs have increasingly turned to the principles of a “lean en












