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Learning Trends to Watch in 2006
As we enter 2006, how will our priorities change? Here are four trends to watch. Delivery for the ’Net Generation Today’s college students, dubbed the ’Net generation, born between 1980 and 1994, will be entering the workplace in a few years.
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Continuous Learning and Workforce Engagement
At the start of each season, legendary professional golfer Jack Nicklaus would seek out the man who had been his coach and mentor since his early teens, and he would relearn the sport, from the very beginning.
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LandAmerica: Selling a New Learning Structure
About five years ago, LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. changed its historically franchise-based operations style and molded its decentralized structure into a centralized, streamlined corporate entity with standardized processes and procedures.
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Looking Forward: The Learning & Development Industry in 2006
Each year brings with it a mix of new potential challenges and solutions for chief learning officers everywhere. With 2006 upon us, IDC asked Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Business Intelligence Board which areas of the learning and development industr
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Leveraging Technology for Improved Sales Performance
How can you measure the impact of technology and training on business, and more particularly, the sales function? The past 10 years have introduced e-mail, Web meetings and customer relationship management (CRM) software to businesses at a blistering pace, and while millions of dollars are being invested in various IT systems and initiatives, quantifying it…
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Building Goodwill to Last the Year Through
You don’t often hear about employees returning holiday cash or check bonuses, but research indicates that non-monetary, more personal gifts may have a greater, longer lasting impact on employees. Further, Beverly Kaye, founder and CEO of Career Systems In
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Utilization of Marketing Resources – SILVER: Suellen Roth, Vice President, Global Policy, Compliance, Diversity & Avaya University, Avaya
As vice president of global policy, compliance, diversity and Avaya University for Avaya, Suellen Roth has engaged the company’s learners with Madison Avenue savoir-faire. “Companies don’t release products without advertising them, so why should CLOs release learning programs without promoting their value?” she asked. “If CLOs want to create a learning program that is going…
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Utilization of Marketing Resources – GOLD: Maureen McCormick, Director, Learning & Development, University of Iowa
The idea of using marketing techniques to create interest in learning and development activities is not a new one. However, effectively deploying marketing resources to increase learning and development dollars and then stretching those dollars into more opportunities to serve the University of Iowa’s population of 42,000 faculty, staff and students, not to mention thousands…
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Strategic Alignment – BRONZE: Donald Vanthournout, Associate Partner, HR, Accenture
Accenture understands better than most how important strategic alignment can be to the realization of key business objectives. With this central purpose in mind, the company created a Capability Development organization, led by Donald Vanthounout, associate partner, HR, where learning builds the critical people skills that enable organic growth of the business and facilitate execution…
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Learning Innovations – SILVER: Ted Hoff, Vice President, Learning, IBM
When IBM Vice President of Learning Ted Hoff joined the company four years ago and began to actively leverage work on IBM’s On Demand Learning capabilities, one of his first stops was the sales department. To strengthen sales and ensure that there was an expansive role for sales learning at IBM, Hoff worked closely with…


