Leadership Development

Most learning executives agree that employee development should align to organizational objectives. That's the easy part. How to make it happen is where the challenge lies.

When a core strategy fails, it saps energy and exhausts organizations. While external factors certainly play a role in strategic failure, the most common are well within the control of executive leadership.

By exhibiting strong yet flexible leadership, chief learning officers can play a significant and often overlooked role in organizational transformation.

Seeking advice on charting the way forward.

Jay Cross is CEO of Internet Time Group and a thought leader in informal learning and organizational performance. He can be reached at editor@clomedia.com.

Bridging the gap between formal and informal learning.

Deep performance analysis can uncover hidden expertise and provide a laser-like focus for developing and deploying talent.

Developing business acumen enterprisewide is a difficult undertaking, but it meets a critical training and development need as well as restores much-needed street cred to the learning function.

Take stock of your learning function by answering the following questions. Answer each with rarely, sometimes or always.

Business culture is often built upon the idea that humans are resources meant for the fulfillment of corporate purposes. But history proves otherwise.

The key to presenting a message more effectively is to change how you think and communicate.

Tailoring learning

Successful executive partnerships are key to the success of learning and development initiatives. It's up to the CLO to initiate, build and sustain relationships with the C-suite.

Airports house many different workforces, which can leave customer service training up in the air. But Miami International Airport got all its employees on the same flight path.

Social learning makes a splash