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The human capital management cycle is the next major initiative organizations are taking to maintain and increase competitive advantage. The learning component of the cycle can be the most expensive, but it can also deliver the most impact.

On the surface, trends and business are a perfect fit. But if the description isn’t relevant, corporate learning trends can mislead businesses. Trends are notoriously fickle, but the Corporate University Xchange has come up with several corporate learning

Learning leaders, HR professionals and advocates of employee development all strive to persuade their companies to increase funding for rewards programs. Their rallying cry is that such investments ultimately increase productivity, employee morale and ret

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-

Many CLOs and other learning professionals who become fed up with the bureaucracies of the corporate environment pursue independent consulting. However, building a successful consulting practice is not as easy as it looks.

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.

Regardless of industry, the objective of education is to support the business operation. However, as businesses grow, many organizations track training milestones without tracking direct improvements to the business.

C-suite executives almost universally value ROI when they look to the CLO to account for not only where learning dollars go and to whom, but also to know that learning investments have a significant impact on the business. Learning dollars must be justifi

The future of learning might focus significantly on the integration of work and learning. This naturally draws senior-level learning executives’ attention to issues of performance and how to increase its levels among strategically targeted areas of the wo

Alignment: It’s the term that describes the continuous process of mobilizing enterprise resources to execute company objectives. For several years, organizations have grappled with how to align their most critical enterprise resource—the workforce. Thus f

Last month, my daughter had a school assignment to review the movie, “Supersize Me.” The film is Morgan Spurlock’s documentary about his self-imposed sentence to eat nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days. The movie details Spurlock’s personal experience on t

Robbins-Gioia has always had a strong commitment to the professional development of employees. For years it was a privately held business with steady growth and a close family type of environment. Benefits such as continued education, conferences and work