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Onboarding: Helping New Executives Get It Right
Too much. Too little. Just right. How does an organization successfully on-board its new executives? According to a survey by RHR International, an executive and organizational development consulting firm, about half of senior executives say they are not
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Corporate Universities: What Works and What Doesn’t
Strengthening their human capital is one of the top issues facing chief executive officers, according to a recent survey of 500 CEOs conducted by The Economist Intelligence unit. In fact, as one senior executive from a large financial services firm said,
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Environment: How Venue Selection Impacts the Success of Your Meeting or Training Session
With increased pressure to demonstrate ROI, Chief Learning Officers tend to focus primarily on the effectiveness of curricula and training methods. However, as this article demonstrates, mounting evidence shows that the choice of venue and the physical fa
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Report Shows LMS Market Growing Apace
If your company is one of the holdouts of joining the learning management system game, fear no more. You can now count your chips and play your hand with confidence. According to Josh Bersin, CEO of research and enterprise learning advisory firm Bersin &a
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Organizational Futurity: The Absolute of Innovation
Given the rapid pace of change and the intense competition that it inevitably spawns, organizations are increasingly hurried from within and harassed from without.
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Effective Learning Governance Drives Business Results
A growing number of enterprises are centralizing learning capabilities and building shared service centers to enhance their learning efficiency and effectiveness. According to a 2005 study from Bersin & Associates, areas where shared services
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Are You Measuring the Right Things?
There is a saying in business: What gets measured gets done. Organizations that effectively manage their measures achieve superior results. In all sectors, leaders use measures to drive organizational improvement and outperform their competitors. Howeve
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Cingular Wireless: Driving Alignment Through Simulation
After Cingular Wireless acquired AT&T Wireless in October 2004, it was critical for the newly integrated workforce to understand and align around the company’s three-year business goals. But in order to accomplish this feat in an efficient man
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The Nexus of Learning: The Intersection of Formal and Informal Education
In the beginning, there was learning, and it was unstructured. From the primordial ooze of early man’s brain came the concept of on-the-job training.
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Job Descriptions With Legs
The Industrial Age is giving way to the Knowledge Age, and leaders must welcome the shift instead of resisting it.