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Overcoming Challenges in Learning and Development
Economic, social and technological changes are affecting the increasingly global workforce. Research suggests a shortage of skills for future job roles. Next-generation CLOs must answer strategic questions to overcome these challenges.
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Public-Sector Challenges: The Aging Workforce
The aging of the global workforce is hitting government agencies especially hard. For example, Frank Anderson Jr., president of the Defense Acquisition University, estimates that 70 percent of the DAU […]
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Taking the Pulse of Training Outsourcing
With so much focus on training outsourcing, the time is ripe to gauge organizations’ attitudes toward this strategy. This month, the CLO Business Intelligence Board answers questions about select outsourcing and training BPO.
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Boosting Productivity Through Apprenticeship
There are approximately 17 million people working in American manufacturing today. Ten percent of them are highly skilled metalworkers who perform stamping and machining operations, including machine building, service and repair, dye making and forming me
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Skills for Tomorrow’s Leaders
The enterprise education industry has hundreds, perhaps thousands of answers to all manner of learning and development questions. E-learning and online learning provide point-of-contact information in a cost-effective and easy-to-update format. Classroom
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Change Management: Resilience Training
Smart businesses know what changes they need to make, as well as how to achieve them. A systematic and disciplined process to address resistance builds workforce resilience, allowing changes to occur seamlessly.
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Beyond the Performance Review
In my town, there’s a lawn service that comes by three or four times a year to examine the grass for diseases, apply a little fertilizer and some other treatments […]
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How to Talk to the ‘Big Dogs’
There’s a way to talk to the senior executives in the boardroom that gets results—and there’s a way to get asked to leave. The CEO and members of the board aren’t likely to clue the inexperienced in on the proper way to handle them in a conference, but th
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Leader as Learner—Frame, Sense, Reflect, Drive Action
It is easy to recognize leadership in military situations: A skilled commander is able—with the help of others—to define the mission, size up the situation, identify the best of the […]
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Delphi: Driving Performance With Teams
Although it’s only six years old, Delphi, a provider of mobile electronics and transportation components and systems technology, has nearly a century of history behind it. The organization was part […]