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LMS: Is Your Organization Ready?
Research has shown that implementation times for LMS projects are long—six to 12 months (average company by size)—but nearly one-third run beyond one year to implement.
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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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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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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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Kevin Wilde: Providing Food for Thought at General Mills
If you work with kiddie cereals and yogurt for a living, it pays to have a sense of humor and a sweet tooth. If you’re responsible for educating 27,000 employees worldwide, it also pays to have a flexible attitude and a committed plan for training and de
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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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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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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