Commentary & Opinion

Video: Recognizing and rewarding skills development is more important than ever
The expectation, now more than ever, is on employers to provide the benefit of a culture of learning and to make sure they are dedicating time and resources to helping employees develop skills beyond the current tasks they may be responsible for — and to document or display that they value it when someone accomplishes those new skillsets and achievements.

Providing healing, promoting hope: Allyship in action
CLO columnist Rosina Racioppi discusses allyship through hope and healing during Women’s History Month and beyond.

A culture of belonging starts with psychological safety
True belonging requires authenticity and vulnerability. But many workers don't feel that they can be either.

Earn your seat at the table: Turning your L&D department into a performance department
If you desire to be the trusted strategic partner that contributes to the revenue growth and success of your organization without breaking out into a sweat, then you’ll need to have a plan, the proof and a performance department that you can execute.

Simple truths of leadership
People are desperately looking for leaders they can believe in — leaders whose focus is on serving the greater good.

Beyond traditional learning programs
To prepare for Industry 4.0 and a diverse, shrinking workforce, we need to open the door of meaningful learning to everyone.

Learning design considerations for the hybrid working environment
How can we adapt our learning and development offerings to best suit the environments people are working in, and will work in?

Looking inward and beyond the industry’s fixation with ‘skills mapping’
Talent development’s focus on chasing 30,000 skills is enabling it to ignore other problems.

Leader or cheerleader — have we lost our way?
Leadership today actually requires carefully balancing both leading “from the front” and “leading from behind.”

Competencies and collaborations for 2022
Since 2022 is likely to be rife with unknowns and uncertainties, the need for paradigms that reach across all modes of work is crucial.

Future-focused training: Are you committing learning malpractice?
No one wants a workforce with outdated skills. Most would say it makes sense to start important training now. But does it?

Coaching as a learning reinforcement method
How introducing coaching can make learning “stick.”

5 long-lasting lessons from 2021 to speed up workforce competitiveness in an accelerated world
While we are all eagerly looking forward to the end of the pandemic era, we can take this moment to look back and reflect upon some important lessons.