Dear Readers,

The articles selected for this month’s edition present ideas on how trainers and HR professionals can play a role in shaping our workplaces to make them more productive and effective.

In addition to the article on how to retain organizational knowledge, we continue our presentation of the learning strategy master plan. We also present articles that explore leadership strategies, improving the performance of the training organization and managing the emerging culture of teams.

As always, thank you for your involvement and continued dedication to training. - John Quincy, Editor

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Managing the Learning Lifecycle: Retaining Organizational Knowledge
By Olga Miler

Jack has been working in the finance department of his company for more than 20 years, and when it comes to his company’s finance function, Jack can solve pretty much every issue that comes his way. Always willing to help, Jack is a tremendous asset to his company. So what will happen to the finance department when Jack retires? Learn More

Learning Strategy Master Plan
By Mark Harrison

The elusive search for the holy grail of learning and development has always been the creation of a learning organization. So how do organizations get there? Countless pages have been written on this since and so there has been much greater awareness of what makes an organization a real learning organization. What do you have to do to do to reach this goal?

In this, the second of four Insight Briefings, we look at the main characteristics (identified by the American Society for Training and Development) that are consistently present in the most successful learning organizations.  Learn More

The Juggling Act
By Alexander J. Ogg and Marshall Goldsmith

More and more this environment forced senior executives to juggle shifting priorities to deal with the constant and accelerating change. Success depends largely on how well corporate leaders can manage this juggling act, understanding the opportunities and challenges that accompany it, and creating a compelling vision of the business' future. Learn More

4 Strategies to Make Your Training Organization Performance Based

Training organizations are striving to become more performance-based in order to better serve internal clients and increase the value of the department to the organization. To do this, the training department needs to be aligned with the business goals and strategies of the organization and deliver measurable results in business terms. Learn More

Preparing for the Emerging Team Culture
By Irving H. Buchen, Ph.D.

CEOs frequently lecture university presidents on the need to run their academic organizations more like businesses. With few exceptions, academic interdisciplinary studies have failed to take hold or last. Universities generally lack what appears in abundance in business: the pervasive use of teams. Indeed, teaming is such a basic staple of business organizations that it has also become a permanent component of performance training and evaluation. Learn More

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