Articles by Mike Prokopeak

Why Best Practices Are Bad for Business
Past triumphs are no guarantee of future success. That’s why CLOs should help leaders look beyond their past accomplishments in order to capitalize on emerging opportunities. Here’s how.

Leadership Development for Uncertain Times
Stock market volatility and economic uncertainty persist. But there are steps CLOs can take to help leaders adapt and profit from increased volatility.

High Performance: Special Ops-Style
Teaching leaders to debrief can lead to higher performance, improved communication and better collaboration -- and give your organization a fighting chance.

Workforce Training to Play Key Role in Federal Jobs Package
When President Obama unveils a new jobs package after Labor Day, a set of statewide initiatives to retrain workers may serve as inspiration.

Online, On Campus and On-site
Busy workers benefit from online education’s flexibility, but on campus and even on-site education help learning leaders make the most of tuition reimbursement dollars.

Responsibility and Learning
While well intentioned, corporate sustainability efforts don’t go nearly far enough. What’s needed is a broader approach that incorporates learning and development into responsibility at a global level, argues the author of a new book.

Facebook’s Learning Hack
How does the world’s No. 1 social network rapidly develop learning for a young tech-savvy workforce? By taking a page from the hacker’s book.

The Tribe Has Spoken
By understanding the tribes we belong to at work and the stages of their development, leaders can build a high performing organization.

The Human Energy Crisis
To boost organizational performance, pay attention to how employees create and manage energy. Learning and innovation will benefit as a result.

Serving Up Learning
McDonald’s USA comes in at No. 9 in the LearningElite, celebrating 50 years of training while introducing new innovations to employee learning and development.

Storing Data, Driving Results
Business alignment, rapid learning design and delivery and proven business results keep EMC education at the top of its game – and at No. 8 in the LearningElite.

Closing the Skills Gap
To boost educational achievement, CLOs can do more than tutor in local schools and set up internship programs for college students. They can play a direct role in shaping tomorrow’s workforce today.

Think Locally, Act Globally
Done right, international service projects do good for the communities they serve as well as develop leadership strength and valuable market intelligence.

Give the People What They Want … More Development
Although job satisfaction remains low, many employees remain unlikely to seek a new job and are looking for internal career development opportunities instead.

Learning in Real Time
At Google, making the world’s information accessible isn’t just an external mission. It also informs how the company’s engineers learn from one another.