Leadership Development

AOL has experienced a rebirth over the past three years, aided in no small part by the company's learning and development organization and its leaders, Vice President of People Development and Talent Acquisition Thomas Lokar.

The Prudential Financial slogan, 'Growing and Protecting Your Wealth,' parallels the company's stance on learning. Prudential has created a learning and development strategy based on vendor partnerships and the formation of high-

Virtual collaboration, which uses technology to bring people together, can help people achieve their goals. Learning and development leaders should use virtual collaboration to help people learn, practice and apply new knowledge and skills.

How can a learning organization facilitate learning? Perhaps the answer is as simple as returning to the fundamentals of education, which focus the learner on the "how" of learning.

Aretha Franklin knows it. So did Rodney Dangerfield. If executives want to gain loyalty from their employees and increase their productivity, it all comes down to a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T. According to a survey from Sirota Survey Intelligence and authors

Senior learning and development executives, much like their counterparts in technology and other people-centric industries, are always talking or at least thinking about the next big thing. That doesn’t necessarily mean the latest gadgets or innovative ne

rom the front line to the boardroom, there is a growing awareness among managers that significant productivity gains remain to be made in the area of human capital. Specifically, there is an increased focus by businesses to improve the quality of their wo

With more than a million residential, commercial and industrial customers throughout metropolitan Washington, D.C., and the surrounding regions, WGL Holdings Inc. and its subsidiary Washington Gas launched the Learning Solutions Center in May 2005 to crea

Growth can take place in many different ways, and CLOs need to be prepared to adapt to the organization's needs. Here's how learning executives at major companies have responded to various growth strategies for their companies.

More than 40 years after the first wave of baby boomers entered the U.S. workforce, those same workers are getting ready to leave it. Learning leaders must adopt smart strategies to ensure that remaining employees have the necessary knowledge.