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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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Flying in Formation: The Organizational Commitment of Training and Development
Organizations around the world continue efforts to maximize the productivity of their employees in the face of competitive, legislative and socioeconomic change. More and more, senior learning professionals are being asked to enhance employee performance
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Aligning Learning With Strategy
CLOs are pressured to justify their investments in learning. A CLO always has to answer the CEO’s questions: Why should we invest in this learning program, and how will it help us execute our strategy? And how can we measure the return on this investment?
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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
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The Challenges and Benefits of Outsourced Learning
More and more companies are turning to an outsourcing strategy for functions that do not directly contribute to mission-critical strategies that drive the success of the business.
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HR Outsourcing: The Impact on Corporate Learning
Corporate learning has always been the poor relation of all the management disciplines. Some corporations simply don’t believe in it, preferring to buy knowledge and skills when needed. Others have a large training department for internal courses and a si
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Performance Coaching: The Missing Link to Level 3 Impact
Donald Kirkpatrick single-handedly delivered to the training and development community a way to formally evaluate an organization’s investment in learning way back in 1959. His four-level model has stood the test of time as being the cornerstone approach
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Working Partners: The CLO and the Executive Team
A great complaint often heard at meetings of chief learning officers is the lack of involvement by senior executives in support of employee training programs, which leads directly to inadequate resources. How can this situation be reversed?
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Building the Case for Education Investment
CLOs know that learning is imperative to success with enterprise software rollouts, but how do you justify your case to the other leaders of your organization? With PeopleSoft’s help, learning executives can not only build the case to justify investments