Articles by Ed Cohen

It helps to experience company life in its most basic, influential form — right from the beginning.

Blogger Ed Cohen has been on all sides of the learning equation as teacher, corporate practitioner and consultant. Now he’s branching into a new role as an individual contributor at Amazon.com.

An intrusive, rather presumptuous fairytale character she might be, but Goldilocks knew the power of evaluation and choice.

Learning leaders need negotiation skills to help deal with conflict, procure investments and help determine the right development for themselves and their teams.

To develop yourself as a leader, walk a mile in your employees’ shoes.  

Learning leaders are not immune to the need for continuing education.

For learning leaders, breaking out of the pre-existing mold to take their rightful places as enterprise leaders is actually easier than they think.

Do you know what behaviors employees expect from leaders? Perceptions about what makes leaders successful can inform development and talent management strategy.

Don’t you hate it when you don’t know what you don’t know, and you find out later that someone should have told you?

"Since the late nineties, all times have been uncertain times," writes blogger Ed Cohen. Flexibility and adapting quickly are the best tools a CLO can have to navigate them.

Take it from the 2015 LearningElite winner's CLO herself — a learning leader's development is never complete.

The silver tsunami is about to make landfall. Are you and your employees ready to take up the leadership duties?

Use the right kind of leadership at the right time. That might mean putting aside your learning mindset and adopting a more business-focused view.

Take it from ESPN's founder: Asking questions is a great way to develop yourself, as well as your projects.

Just in time for our Spring Symposium, blogger Ed Cohen has some details on making the most of this year's learning leader summits.