Commentary & Opinion

Colleges and universities have the opportunity now to invest in accelerated online learning training for their instructors.

Chief Learning Officer's most-read stories of 2020.

Take this opportunity as you plan for 2021 to continue to think outside the box, just as you have been forced to do this past year. Double down on new ways of learning, and embrace the opportunity to publicly disclose your important L&D and HR metrics.

Even in the short term, leaders who choose to do the right thing rather than succeed at any cost are winners.

By benchmarking learning, we are creating an artificial expectation that all learning should look the same and that learning departments should operate in the same ways. This is a hugely problematic assumption.

Want to add a little theater to your L&D? Here are some virtual storytelling tips.

Peer coaching is a powerful, yet underused, learning tool. But with many learning functions currently stretched thin, there’s opportunity to take better advantage of it.

Learning is an intermediate step to the ultimate success that is needed by so many stakeholders. Here are a few powerful techniques to design virtual learning to deliver impact and ROI.

During these unprecedented times we have borne witness to both ends of the behavioral spectrum and everything in between.

The long-awaited age of transparency for both investors and employees is finally here.

Soft leaders lead by collaboration and consensus. They take inputs from all sources and then make decisions. They follow the democratic and participative leadership style. It is this author's opinion that soft leadership will stand the test of time as hard leadership fades away gradually.

Successful corporations realize that despite the pandemic, corporate growth continues to be buoyed by gender parity.

From conversations with fellow learning leaders, CLO columnist Elliott Masie shares what business and workplace cultures are balancing in these new times.

Application without impact is just being busy.

What is the role of leadership in the journey to systemic change?