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The Future Agenda of CLOs
By Irving H. Buchen
In a relatively short time, CLOs have responded with due diligence and intelligence to the threats to the support, survival and growth systems of thinking, learning and training. But consolidation and reconfiguration now need to be followed by developing the future agenda of CLOs. What invests the new role of CLO with puzzling importance is its somewhat unexpected appearance. It has emerged at a time when training generally has been downsized, minimized and, in some companies, trivialized, when many HR departments have been dismantled or outsourced, when the budget line for consultants including IT specialists has been decimated or deleted entirely and when the future of corporate universities as separate entities is being scrutinized. (LEARN MORE)
If You Don't Know Where You're Going, Any Road Will Take You There: Lessons on e-Learning Strategy from the Chesire Cat
By Lance Dublin
Many of us were brought up with the famous Alice in Wonderland story. We were enthralled and amused, and often quite taken with the antics of the Chesire cat. He seemed so crazy yet made so much sense! Well, I believe the Cheshire cat was indeed on to something that has meaning for us today.
Organizations today are faced with many e-learning choices. Synchronous or a-synchronous courses. Blended or self-paced programs. Courses or job aids. Hosted or in-house. LMS or LCMS. And, the choices go on and on. It's often difficult to separate out fact from fiction and myth from reality. Therefore, decisions are often made for decisions sake. The road taken is often just the one that is best sold, the cheapest in cost, or the easiest to get agreement on. (LEARN MORE)
Building Better Learners
By Holly Dolezalek
You know you're near the zeitgeist when a noun becomes a verb. More and more, people call it "Googling" when they turn to the Internet's best-known search engine to teach themselves a few salient facts or a truckload of background on a topic that's caught their interest. But what they call Googling, the training industry calls self-directed learning.
It's an area of training that is somehow ubiquitous yet under-the-radar, obvious yet ill-defined. (LEARN MORE)
Seven Tactics for Coaching an Executive
By Mark Gorkin
An executive coach able to recognize these seven coaching issues--and to design and implement strategies to address them--is a professional who truly has earned his or her coaching fee. Working with an executive means being able to understand his or her work world and psyche as well as being able to speak this leader's language. (LEARN MORE)
E-Performance Essentials
By Tony Karrer and Elizabeth Gardner
Businesses are under pressure to prove performance. However, line of business managers and workplace learning and performance professionals tend to rely on the same tools and techniques that they've been using for years. Opportunities and easy wins are frequently overlooked. What can we do when a fast turn-around is required but typical interventions take time to implement? (LEARN MORE)
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