Articles by Site Staff

Corporate Training and the Natural Learning Process
The natural learning process can be adapted to improve learning retention, and ultimately, create a more effective learning function.

Technology Changes Daily Learning and Physical Classrooms
Advances in technology mean the future of learning will encompass more on-the-job training and collaborative experiences.

Surprises in the Classroom Boost Engagement
Introducing surprise-based activities into the classroom can help learners retain knowledge and make for a more entertaining learning environment.

Is Online Education Up For a Facelift?
Apollo Education Group, home to the embattled University of Phoenix, was recently sold to a group of private investors for $1.1B. Given the image problems online schools like University of Phoenix are suffering, the move could indicate some positive changes are afoot.

Looking At The Bigger Picture
Keeping a 360-degree view of what strategic learning is and how initiatives are built can make all the difference.

Learning’s Not as Important as You Think
Chief learning officers need to shift their efforts from pushing out learning to enabling employees to easily acquire knowledge.

4 Ways Learning Predicts, Protects Culture
When organizational beliefs, values and norms are part of a company’s learning strategy, they’re sustainable for the long haul.

CLOs Are a CFO’s Best Friend
As chief financial officers’ roles change, a skills gap likely will create a financial leadership shortage. This will affect CLOs and future business models.

The 7 Skills of Valuation
These skills should give talent managers the intelligence needed to create competitive advantage in the marketplace.
2015 Learning In Practice Award Finalists Announced
The Learning In Practice Awards is pleased to announce the nominees whose employee development programs have achieved finalist status in the 2015 Awards competition.

Tradition With a Future
Change requires soul searching, discipline and elimination.

2015 LearningElite: Best Practices and Benchmarking Summary
In an effort to benchmark and identify the world’s elite learning organizations, Chief Learning Officer magazine’s editors and its research division — Human Capital Media Advisory Group —established the LearningElite benchmarking program. The intent of the program is to provide the learning and development field a transparent benchmarking program that also recognizes the exceptional efforts of learning organizations across the globe.

Do Men and Women Lead Differently?
Different leadership styles suggest that talent managers should refocus their development strategies.