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Understanding the Workforce: Designing Targeted Development
When designing targeted training for a four-generation workforce, CLOs might want to borrow a trick or two from the film industry: Hollywood has perfected how to define an audience and deliver engaging content specifically to it.
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First Midwest Bank: Bringing Lines of Business Together
Promoting effective working relationships across departmental lines, particularly those between learning and more functional or operations-based units, is one of the tasks with which senior-level executives grapple endlessly. Caryn Guinta, […]
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Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
What is the total impact of learning and development on your organization? I’m not just talking about the obvious connection between enterprise education programs and productivity. Even the most jaded […]
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Johnson & Johnson: Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders
Chairman Bill Weldon said, “The most important responsibility all of us have is to develop the leaders of the future. It is the greatest challenge we have and the most […]
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Corporate Compliance: Learning’s Mission-Critical Role
Historically, only highly regulated industries such as health care and utilities had stringent compliance requirements for learning management. Today, these requirements touch nearly every industry. With corporate compliance growing in scope and impact, C
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Alcon Labs: Developing Customized Global Learning Strategies
Global pharmaceutical company Alcon Labs, which specializes in eye care products, has about 13,000 employees in more than 70 countries. Until about a year ago, the company’s learning and development […]
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Rebecca Ray: Crediting MasterCard Learning with Business Success
When Rebecca Ray became the senior vice president of global learning and organizational development at MasterCard Worldwide in 2005, she brought with her a diverse career ranging from high school education to consulting to Wall Street.
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Leadership Development: Moving from Priority to Action
A 2005 survey conducted by Bersin & Associates found organizations spend as much as 30 percent of their corporate training dollars on leadership development. This is no surprise. Around the […]
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The Value of a Learning Governance Model
The learning mission is fairly universal. It has infinite nuances related to company and industry, but learning should somehow help people work smarter and perform at optimal levels. The structure of the learning organization and how it’s governed, howeve
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Study: Market for Workforce Management Solutions in Health Care Likely to Grow
The health care sector looks to see a compound annual growth rate of almost 14 percent for workforce performance solutions, according to “The Americas Market for Workforce Management Solutions,” a study by U.K.-based IMS Research.