The 3 Most Important Questions for Your Digital Learning Strategy
Many learning leaders are rethinking their strategy and want to incorporate more digital components to what they are doing with learning. This means thinking beyond traditional models of classroom...
View Article5 Things Learning Analysts Want You to Know
Digital technology has become the gateway to smarter work, learning and play. For Learning and Development and HR leaders, it has fundamentally changed not only our roles and organizations, but our...
View ArticleWhat the Most Successful CLOs Know About Technology
Technology is transforming almost every aspect of our lives, from how we get groceries, to how we get around our cities, to how we get answers to everyday questions. People who are in the business of...
View ArticleStriking the balance Between Training and Learning
Training is a core function of many organizations, as employees need to be taught a few standard things to help them effectively work within a company, and best perform their role. But how many...
View ArticleWhy Informal Learning Demands Informal Assessments
The average person leaves university or college in their early 20’s and retires in their mid 60’s. For those of you like me that aren’t math wizards, that’s about 45 years where most of your learning...
View ArticleLearning Is the New Brand
When we talk about the value of learning, it’s commonly linked to increasing the capabilities of the larger organization to drive performance, productivity and business outcomes. But as the workforce...
View ArticleTop 3 Practices of Successful CLOs
Doing more with less has always been one of the hardest things about being a Chief Learning Officer (CLO). “Doing more” has taken on a whole new meaning as CLOs increasingly recognize that learning and...
View ArticleThe Top Four Trends Disrupting the Workforce in 2017 (Part 2)
As a CLO, I spend a lot of time talking to learning leaders from a variety of industries, going to conferences and trade shows, and reading industry research and blogs. Phrases like “content explosion”...
View ArticleThe Digital CLO Playbook
Digital technology is transforming just about everything, and fast. Yet just. 33% of organizations say their top-level managers understand and support digital initiatives. If you’re not working on...
View ArticleLearning, by the People, for the People
For a long time, perhaps too long, the HR and training functions have dictated learning for employees. But workers have started taking things into their own hands as they realize their competitive...
View ArticleLearning is the New Work
Organizations spend billions each year on formal training programs. Yet it’s estimated that only about 10% of what is learned in training is applied at work. This is likely a concerning statistic, but...
View ArticleThe Serial Learner: An Interview with HR Expert Jeanne Meister
Today’s workforce operates at unprecedented levels, with technology and an increasingly diverse workforce constantly reshaping the world of work. The changes affect multiple facets of the business,...
View ArticleHow to Value Informal Learning
Digital technology has drastically changed the way we learn and consume content. We gravitate towards solutions that are quick and easy, and as a result, informal options – social and on-demand...
View Article3 Ways to Target Development at Your Organization
Career development is more complex than it’s ever been. There’s no longer a straight ladder with prescribed steps. Employees are changing jobs at a record rate, and the change can now be lateral,...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Learning Journey
If we look at a traditional education or career path, they might seem quite linear. Your journey likely consisted of going to college, and you might have even known what you wanted to do, which lead to...
View ArticleHow CLOs Are Rethinking the Learning Strategy for Both Short and Long Term...
As much as we would like to believe it, and as nice as it sounds, we don’t develop our people out of the goodness of our own hearts. Businesses have important goals and a bottom line, and in order to...
View ArticleDegreed and Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Announce New...
Our teachers are given incredible responsibility – to grow the minds of our future leaders. And at some point, you may have wondered, how do these selfless individuals get trained for such a big task?...
View ArticleWhat the 60-year Career Means for Learning Teams
Even the concept of a career wasn’t immune to today’s disruption. People are changing jobs at record rates, working for more companies doing a variety of jobs throughout their career, and they aren’t...
View ArticleThe Structure You Need to Reimagine Learning
What would you do if you could build a vision and strategy for learning at your company completely from scratch? What would your structure and plan be? What specific things would you continue doing...
View ArticleListen Up: How Users Are Telling You What They Really Want
If you could have any superpower, what would you choose? (Don’t worry, I just pictured a 10-year-old version of myself in a cape too.) My answer to this age-old question has always been reading minds....
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