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Preparing for Baby Boomer Retirement
With nearly 83 million baby boomers nearing retirement age, the U.S. workforce faces a massive knowledge drain beginning in approximately six years. What will the exit of this generation mean for your organization?
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Envision Greatness
In these ongoing meditations on how to develop leaders, I’m struck by the need to teach leaders to see people as they really are. I don’t mean just taking stock […]
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Randstad: Demonstrating Success in Learning
International staffing firm Randstad Holding, which connects approximately 250,000 provisional personnel to businesses in 17 countries every day, touts the motto, “We put people to work.” A corollary of that […]
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Innovative Talent Management Strategies
Despite a 5.2 percent U.S. unemployment rate, there is an acute shortage of talent. That talent consists of researchers, manufacturing specialists, engineers, educators, executives and others who can produce between […]
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AT&T’s Golden Age of Training
Before the term “corporate university” was common, AT&T had one. Now that the telecommunications giant has merged with SBC, a former learning professional from the company takes a look back.
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The Changing Face of Simulations
Performance simulations can deliver dramatic results—from increasing customer satisfaction to decreasing the time needed to handle a help-desk call. As these tools evolve with technological changes, CLOs must adapt as well.
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Reporting Results: Managing Measurement
The ability to provide valid measures of success for any learning program is key to achieving support for future initiatives. Knowledge training and assessment programs can provide data in multiple formats to transform learning business operations.
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Differentiation
Here’s an interesting observation: For an industry that’s as crucial as learning and development to the fabric of business, there can be surprisingly little controversy running through it. Politics is […]
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Inova Health System: Learning for Healthy Leadership
The Inova Health System in northern Virginia consists of more than 14,000 employees, multiple hospitals and 33 separate facilities that serve patients with more than 1,500 licensed beds. The Inova […]
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Siemens: Taking Action in Management Development
Siemens is a Germany-based company with approximately 420,000 employees and about 75 billion Euros (approximately $100 billion U.S.) in revenue and a presence in more than 190 countries. The majority […]