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Multi-Sourcing: Achieving Growth and Agility
The practice of outsourcing training is following well-established patterns in other areas, such as payroll, customer service and IT. So today, the question a business-savvy training executive should ask is not, "Do we outsource?&quot
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AOL’s Thomas Lokar: Accelerating Leadership and Learning in Line With Business Strategies
AOL has experienced a rebirth over the past three years, aided in no small part by the company’s learning and development organization and its leaders, Vice President of People Development and Talent Acquisition Thomas Lokar.
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Prudential Financial: Growing Money and Learning Efficiency
The Prudential Financial slogan, ‘Growing and Protecting Your Wealth,’ parallels the company’s stance on learning. Prudential has created a learning and development strategy based on vendor partnerships and the formation of high-
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Five Things to Tell Others About E-Learning
A CLO colleague of mine recently asked me what he should be discussing with his group in this giant Midwestern firm about e-learning. It�s the standard �What is hype and what is real?� question. He knew I have been an early advocate and full-time re
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Allstate’s Dave Groff: Ensuring Opportunities for Improvement
At Allstate, senior executives want evidence that learning provides measurable value. With more than 20 years of experience, CLO Dave Groff provides that ROI and ensures that learning is in good hands.
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Mississippi Department of Employment Security: Promoting Productivity
State workers around the country have gotten a bad reputation when it comes to service. To make matters worse, bureaucratic, old-fashioned performance systems can make it very difficult to terminate […]
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Managing the Learning Lifecycle: Retaining Organizational Knowledge
You may have a workforce comprised of many talented workers, but what happens when those top performers leave your organization? Here are seven steps to help ensure knowledge retention in the face of retirements and turnover.
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Making Your LMS Dance
It’s time for learning executives to have a heart-to-heart conversation with their LMS. Ask them if they are ready to dance to the music of performance, profitability, talent management and extreme learning. Tell your LMS that your company is ready to hav
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Sanofi-Aventis: Reaching New Heights Through Continuous Learning
As the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical company, Sanofi-Aventis continues to make advancements in the development of new medications in the areas of oncology, the central nervous system, the cardiovascular system, diabetes and internal medicine.
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Driving Greater Value From an LMS
Anyone who’s been involved in the planning, selection and implementation of a learning management system knows the feeling. They know the feeling of one day waking up and realizing that the LMS hasn’t delivered the anticipated returns that had been touted