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Talent Management: Valuing Human Capital
It is the job of the learning organization to mold individuals to maximize their potential, to help employees find their true talents and leverage them on the job, and to arm the workforce with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform in an exception
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Performance Simulations that Drive Business Results
Performance simulation has been proven to dramatically improve workforce performance through the acquisition of capabilities and behavior change …it enables workers to acquire complex skills rapidly, reliably and consistently across […]
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After Merger, Workforce Performance Is Key to Success or Failure
Cingular has bid for AT&T Wireless, and J.P. Morgan Chase recently acquired Bank One, and more deals are in the making. But historically, at least 50 percent of these deals do not deliver the desired results. Learning executives can help ensur
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Why Training Spending Levels Don’t Matter Anymore
Training expenditure is a metric still used by many human resources and training professionals, as well as some market evaluators, to measure the value that enterprises place on education and […]
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Engaging the Body
In the world of training and development, there is a lack of focus on the body in the performance equation. Once it’s acknowledged that energy is every company’s most important resource, suddenly the body becomes business-relevant, as all energy driving b
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Focus on the ‘Wildly Important’
Leadership starts with defining priorities, but doesn’t stop there. In prior columns, I’ve talked about the gap between setting a goal and achieving it. To close the execution gap, organizations must practice four disciplines.
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The Extended Enterprise LMS
Although major learning-and-development shifts occur, surprisingly they are rapidly accepted, assimilated and accommodated, often with relative ease, finally emerging as new operating norms. Happily, in the process there is evidently a hidden hand or disc
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Verizon: Calling on Learning Success
Verizon is the largest provider of wire-line and wireless communications in the United States, with 139 million access lines and 36 million wireless customers. The company has more than 167,000 employees with over 80,000 in critical field-service position
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Learning Investments: More for Less
In the dot-com days, many companies were willing to invest more to get more. Companies would invest in changing a process to improve customer satisfaction, even if it took more labor hours. They would purchase more capable technology, even if it cost more
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Risk-Mitigation Strategies to Increase Learning ROI
One sign of the increasing impact and scope of corporate learning today is that CLOs are starting to focus on risk-mitigation strategies. Budgets are being scrutinized, and learning executives are being asked to show a clear return on investment. With inc