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Grooming the Next CLO
Chief learning officers often play a significant role in the succession planning activities for an organization. However, some evidence suggests that CLOs are not succeeding in developing their own staff to take on top-level learning executive positions w
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The Benefits of Instructional Simulations
Although instructional simulations often utilize advanced technological features, the most important point to keep in mind is that these high-tech bells and whistles have to produce practical results. Technology-intensive simulations, while aesthetically
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Performance-Based Simulations: Customizable Tools
The use of performance-based simulation learning tools to educate the enterprise is growing rapidly due to the decisive success rates of specialized, interactive content that teaches leaders high-level business acumen in a real-world, risk-free setting. C
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CLO Special Report: Simulations
Feature Learning Simulations: Experiential EducationBrian SummerfieldOne key to workforce education is practice—people learn best by doing. By investing in instructional simulations, learning executives can ensure employees are getting the hands-on practice needed to excel. Feature Performance-Based Simulations: Customizable ToolsKellye Whitney Simulations offer specialized, interactive learning with hands-on tools to build experiential skills. These customizable tools…
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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












