Kellye Whitney is associate editorial director for Chief Learning Officer.
When Rebecca Ray became the senior vice president of global learning and organizational development at MasterCard Worldwide in 2005, she brought with her a diverse career ranging from high school education to consulting to Wall Street.
Promoting effective working relationships across departmental lines, particularly those between learning and more functional or operations-based units, is one of the tasks with which senior-level executives grapple endlessly. Caryn Guinta, […]
The learning mission is fairly universal. It has infinite nuances related to company and industry, but learning should somehow help people work smarter and perform at optimal levels. The structure of the learning organization and how it’s governed, howeve
The Canadian Department of National Defense: Training in 3-D
Wal-Mart is most often associated with low prices and a yellow smiley face, but for John DiBenedetto, vice president, talent planning and development, learning is the best value: His goal is to build a world-class corporate university without walls.
For the modern enterprise, the lines between learning and performance management grow increasingly blurred and rightfully so. The two are linked by one very important factor: an increasingly relevant need for dedicated, highly skilled employees who can ad
Some might say with all the acquisition activity that’s gone on recently in the business world, it is the time of the merger. Mergers traditionally cause quite a bit of upset or at least some worry, not only for the employees involved but for the customer
To address the unrelenting economic and competitive pressures General Motors has recently faced, the automaker charged Donnee Ramelli, president of General Motors University, with ensuring GM’s 80,000 employees focus on innovation, technology and mission-
Senior learning executives have tried any number of creative ideas to help grab and focus learners’ attention. But not many can claim to have used a 118-foot, authentically rigged schooner as a learning lab. Chart Your Course, a six-month executive develo
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-