Social Learning Executive Council Meeting

Dealing with the Challenge of Social Tool Proliferation

During this month’s meeting, we will hear from the learning leaders at CA Technologies and Lockheed Martin, both of whom have been taking on the challenge of social tool proliferation at their companies.

During this meeting, questions that will be answered ...

Social Learning Roundtable-Cutting Edge Social Learning Best Practices

At the 2012 Corporate University Xchange Social Learning Roundtable, learning leaders from companies that are on the cutting edge of social learning will convene at the University of Pennsylvania’s Ivy League setting. There, they will explore the latest approaches to increase corporate ...

How Westinghouse University Supports Significant Top-Line Growth

Westinghouse Electric Company is the world’s pioneering nuclear energy company and a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Headquartered in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, Westinghouse employs 15,000 people in 17 countries worldwide. Westinghouse supplied the world’s first pressurized water reactor in ...

Aon Hewitt: Evolving & Improving Leadership Development after a Merger

Aon Hewitt: Evolving & Improving Leadership Development after a Merger

Aon Hewitt is among the world’s top global human capital and management consulting firms, providing a complete array of consulting, outsourcing and insurance brokerage services. Their professionals possess extensive knowledge and experience in a variety of fields and help companies ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council Meeting

Accelerating Leadership Development Starts with High Potentials

In order to ensure that your leadership pipeline is filled with the right number of the right people at the right time, efforts must start with effective high potential identification and development.

During this month’s meeting, we will hear about the approaches ...

Social Learning Executive Council

Taking the Pulse of Social Learning

During this month’s meeting, we will review the results of our “Taking the Pulse of Social Learning” survey. Then, all SLEC members in attendance will share their answers to the following three questions:

• Is leadership support for social learning at your company growing, remaining the same, or waning?
• Is budget support for social learning at your company growing, remaining the same, or waning?
• What are your plans/initiatives for social learning in 2012?

This meeting will serve, in essence, as a focus group on the current state and direction of social learning. Everyone will receive a compilation and analysis of the responses after the meeting.

If you want to get a sense of the state of social learning as we enter into 2012, attend this meeting!

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council Meeting

What Is Leadership Brand, and Why Should You Care about It?

In an effort to improve performance and growth, a few companies are starting to formalize their Leadership Brand. In this LaTI session, Sue Todd and Lynn Lehman will share the concepts behind CorpU’s Learning Brand assessment and how ...

Jiffy Lube University’s Strategies to Support Profitable Growth

The primary business goal of Jiffy Lube is profitable growth of the Jiffy Lube franchise system with three strategies: 1) Improve the JLU footprint, 2) aggressively market and sell their products and services, and 3) deliver consistent, excellent customer experience. In 2010, Jiffy Lube University (JLU) conducted a thorough, multi-faceted ...

Social Learning Executive Council

What Do Your Fellow SLEC Members Think of Yammer and/or Chatter?

During this meeting, several SLEC members will share their experiences and experiments with Yammer and Chatter. They will answer questions, such as:

• Why did they choose this tool?
• Who uses it?
• Who “owns” it?
• How was it implemented ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

Planning for Leadership Development in 2012

Sue Todd will lead a brainstorming session focused on identifying LaTI member leadership development goals, needs, and preferences regarding the direction of the Leaders as Teachers Institute activities and products in 2012. During this informal, idea-sharing session, we will:

• Hear from all members regarding their 2012 leadership development initiatives in a round-robin fashion.
• Discuss the concept of accelerated leadership development and how it can be worked into the LaTI 2012 agenda.
• Make decisions on how the Leaders as Teachers Institute can best support its members in 2012.

If you want to help determine the future direction of LaTI, don’t miss this session!

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council - Moved to Oct. 25, 2011

Social Learning Executive Council

"Becoming a Dynamic Networked Organization: Re-Thinking What It Means to Be a Manager"

During this SLEC meeting, Michelle Marquard will share the design of their new, social, 21st century, three-level manager certification program. Aspects of this potential game changer include:

• Manager Communities of Practice
• Tiered profile transparency
• Gaming logic
• Multi-rater ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

The Reinvention of Leadership Development in A “Networked Organization.”

The networked organization represents a significant shift in the way modern organizations translate strategy into structure relative to organization models that have existed since the 1930s.

Companies are undergoing a fundamental change in both the assumptions that determine how they compete ...

Social Learning Executive Council

Accenture - Talent Development at Scale: Building Market Relevant Skills at Accenture

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Social Learning Executive Council-Summer Break

Social Learning Executive Council

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Social Learning Executive Council

Social Learning Executive Council will meet May 11th, 2-5PM at the University of Pennsylvania

Global Leadership Congress May 9-11, 2011

Come immerse yourself with some of the world's leading faculty, thought leaders and practitioners in three days of dialogue, inquiry, learning, reflection and action. The 2011 Global Leadership Congress will be held at the University of Pennsylvania from May 9th to 11th.

Attendance is limited to the first 120 registrants and the event will sell out, so register early!

Global Leadership Congress 2011

Learning leaders from around the world will convene for three days in the University of Pennsylvania’s Ivy League setting to learn new approaches for advancing knowledge within their organizations, broaden their thinking beyond their organization to the greater world, and work together to determine how to move the learning industry forward.

Working together, faculty and executives will participate in hands-on workshops to experience learning through storytelling and film, explore Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from the learning leader perspective and, as a group of learning executives, discuss the state of the industry - the good, the bad, and the ugly and what to do about it.

Social Learning Executive Council

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Social Learning Executive Council

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Social Learning Executive Council

Make Training a Powerful Business Partner - Ingersoll Rand's Strategic Learning Alignment

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Social Learning Executive Council

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Westinghouse and Shell on the top practices and surprises from the 2010 Running Training Like a Business Update

Lunch and Learn Workshop: Running Training Like a Business

American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong
Running training Like a Business – Implications for a new Asian Model for Corporate Universities

How corporate training has changed over the years in Asia, and what the new trends are that can be implemented for your business.

Social Learning Executive Council

The CorpU Social Learning Executive Council is comprised of thought leaders from both the corporate world and the academic world who have been brought together to explore the power, promise and peril of applying social networking and Web 2.0 technologies to the development of human capital.

CANCELLED--Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Social Learning Executive Council

The CorpU Social Learning Executive Council is comprised of thought leaders from both the corporate world and the academic world who have been brought together to explore the power, promise and peril of applying social networking and Web 2.0 technologies to the development of human capital.

Reducing Confusion, Redundancy, and Inefficiency: The Boeing Company’s LMS Consolidation Initiative

Just owning technology does not drive business strategy. Using technology efficiently and effectively, however, can.

The Boeing Company (Boeing), with over 158,000 employees in over 70 countries, has one of the most complex and diverse global corporate workforces in the world. Unfortunately, acquisitions, mergers, and company growth resulted in ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

Our Leaders As Teachers presentation Wednesday is packed with great information, as we briefly dissect the case of a global financial services firm and the details of their initial design for their Leaders As Teachers approach. As the agenda points out, we’ll describe how they solved multiple problems they ...

Social Learning Executive Council-What You Need to Know when Enabling Social Learning in a Litigious World

The CorpU Social Learning Executive Council is comprised of thought leaders from both the corporate world and the academic world who have been brought together to explore the power, promise and peril of applying social networking and Web 2.0 technologies to the development of human capital.

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

Leaders As Teachers Executive Council meeting.

Textron, Inc. will present: Cascading Strategy and Objectives “Top To Shop” And The Role of Distributed Leadership

• Supporting leaders to translate enterprise and BU objectives
• Improving quality leader conversations
• Measuring impact of leadership culture

Social Learning Executive Council-Shell: Using a Corporate Wiki to Collaborate and Learn

About three years ago, Shell launched a corporate encyclopedia to capture terms and concepts relevant to the company and industry. Over time, the interest in and use of the wiki grew, and people started adding best practices to the wiki repository. With the company continually working on improving the user ...

CIO and CLO - Collaboration for Success

Join us for an interactive and networking session to explore the emerging trends of collaboration between CIOs and CLOs to deliver business results with a panel of experts from Corporate University Xchange, Credit Suisse, Jambok, CA Technologies, Farmers Insurance and other senior executives from Industry leading organizations, in this event ...

The Shifting Role of the CLO: From Learning Provider to Learning Enabler

Social media technologies are being morphed and applied to contemporary business challenges in ways that improve collaboration and drive innovation.  Companies are being surprised at the success of social learning experiments in speeding new product launches, improving customer satisfaction, accelerating adoption of new enterprise software, and increasing employee engagement.

In ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

Ingersoll Rand will present - Using Business Acumen To Strengthen Leaders As Teachers Initiatives

1. Assessing the strength of alignment of learning and business strategy
2. How to engage leaders to ensure alignment - -a focus on a key process at IR
3. Engaging leaders in design process using IR's Rapid Design Model
4. Review ...

Social Learning Executive Council: The Boeing Company: The Convergence of Social Networking and Social Learning in a Large, Global Enterprise

Over a year ago, the Boeing Company implemented Facebook-like social networking to connect their global workforce. To date, this approach to networking has been completely informal and not tied directly to learning strategy. Now, Bill Epstein, Director of Applied Learning Technologies at Boeing, is exploring and innovating ways to apply ...

Banner Health Shares Insights On Creating Effective Action Learning Programs

Action Learning programs represent a highly effective method to teach new knowledge and skills to rising leaders as they wrestle with very real challenges facing the company.  Learn how Banner Health involves senior leaders as facilitators, coaches and mentors to enhance the value of its action learning programs.

In this ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council - Becton Dickinson - Leader Teacher Roles

Welcome To Leaders As Teachers August Meeting

11:00 - 11:05 Introduction

11:05 - 11:25 Becton Dickinson Leader Teacher Roles - Exploring Many Ways Leaders Can Teach

1. The wide variety of roles for Leader Teachers
2. How to promote varied teaching opportunities to leaders
3. How to identify and manage teaching opportunities ...

Using Social Learning to Launch the Verizon Wireless DROID

You will learn how the Verizon Wireless Learning Organization created a social learning environment, built around a single-purpose device blog, to connect their corporate-wide employees to read, watch, listen, and learn about the new Smartphone, dubbed DROID. The DROID Blog launched with over 400,000 views in the first two ...

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council: Banner Health - Engaging Leaders in Action Learning Programs

Welcome to Leaders as Teachers July meeting

11:00 - 11:05 Introduction

11:05- 11:25 Banner Health - Engaging Leaders in Action Learning Programs, How to work with leaders to:

1. Sponsor the Action Learning program
2. Develop and present the challenge/problem to high potential teams
3. Serve as mentors and coaches ...

Social Learning Executive Council: Verizon Wireless Device Blog Launch

The CorpU Social Learning Executive Council is comprised of thought leaders from both the corporate world and the academic world who have been brought together to explore the power, promise and peril of applying social networking and Web 2.0 technologies to the development of human capital.

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council: P&G Presents: How To Coach Executive Leader Teachers

11:00 - 11:05 Welcome to the Leaders As Teachers June Meeting

11:05 - 11:25 Part of the "How To" Series: Coaching your Executive Leader-Teachers:

1.    Setting the Vision

•  Describe success
•  Set the goal

2.    Delivering a message

•   Provide tools for engaging the audience
•   Demonstrate good body language
•   Explain ...

Hewitt: A New Learning Organization Structure Leads to Engaged Employees

Hewitt University was created to engage employees and provide a vision of the opportunities available within the company.  Replacing decentralized learning with a well-thought out structure that was based on a careful needs assessment and the involvement of senior leadership, the company rolled out the new university just 2 years ago. Already  they have seen remarkable results, includng increases in employee engagement scores and a new feeling that Hewitt is a company that is focused on improving the skills of its people. 

Social Learning Executive Council

The CorpU Social Learning Executive Council is comprised of thought leaders from both the corporate world and the academic world who have been brought together to explore the power, promise and peril of applying social networking and Web 2.0 technologies to the development of human capital.

Learning in 3D

Participants will learn to differentiate the hype about 3D virtual worlds from the value of learning and collaborating in 3D environments. Participants will also gain insights into how leading edge organizations are already leveraging 3D for a competitive advantage. Tips and techniques for getting started in 3D environments will also be discussed and examined.

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Plastipak: Aligning Learning, Building Trust

Learn how Plastipak Academy uses business alignment tactics to strengthen their learning brand, shape their portfolio, and execute a single learning program to drive business results. Explore the processes and tools they've used to uncover and address the real business needs of learning requests and to engage all program stakeholders in understanding "What's the point?" and "What's my role?" in getting top value from learning investments. Hear how all of this work has culminated in a collaborative partnership with senior leaders and a strong identity as a go-to place to solve real business problems.

MasterCard: Creating a Culture of Learning

MasterCard University won this year's CorpU award for Best Overall Corporate University. Its success is based on its ability to engage learners with learning that meets their needs - and the needs of the company. The support and active participation of senior leaders in a wide variety of roles has resulted in a culture of learning focused on the attainment of business and talent management goals. MasterCard University's ability to execute in critical areas has resulted in a respected, impactful learning organization.   

What you will learn:

• How MasterCard University established its brand awareness and credibility
• The role that senior leaders play by active participation as champions, advisors, and teachers
• How MasterCard leverages external partnerships
• The way technology enables the University to extend and expand its reach

Leaders As Teachers Institute Executive Council

What will constitute effective leadership throughout the 21st Century?

Will it be a combination of visionary thinking, charisma and a keen understanding for the art of the deal as it has been for the last few decades? Or, will future leaders have to exercise their right brains more, putting greater ...

Social Learning Executive Council

Learn How “Leader Engagement” Sets Apart Leadership Teams at P&G, McCain Foods, 3M and Others

Companies with a great reputation for developing exemplar leadership teams say that what sets them apart is "Leadership Engagement."  Leaders at Procter & Gamble, Raytheon, 3M, UPS and other top performers have a deep sense of responsibility and real "passion" for developing future generations of leaders.  At the heart of the leadership commitment in these companies is an effective Leaders As Teachers approach. 

This webinar features:

• Summary of new research on Leadership Engagement at top performing companies
• Benefits of the Leaders As Teachers approach and mini case studies on successful programs
• Why McCain Foods is committed to the Leaders As Teachers approach
• How CorpU's new Leaders As Teachers Institute will help companies design or improve their Leaders As Teachers programs

Social Learning Executive Council Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, Houston Hall

Upon completion of this 3 hour session you will be able to:

• Frame knowledge-management and communities-of-practice within the context of Social Learning
• Describe the technology and organizational change components required to enable informal and social learning
• Understand the results, measures, and key performance indicators for Social Learning
• Use the CorpU ...

Leaders as Teachers Institute Launch Party

Attend the Leaders as Teachers Institute Launch Party

Global Leadership Congress II

3 Things YOU Must Master in 2010

Based on 10 years of research, peer-reviewed annual awards programs, and global representation from 1,000's of companies, Corporate University Xchange presents "The Learning Leader Top 3 Priorities for 2010".  These "Must-Do's" include developing leaders as teachers, driving company profitability through learning excellence, and evolving from "training- provider ...

Social Learning Executive Council

The CorpU Social Learning Executive Council is comprised of thought leaders from both the corporate world and the academic world who have been brought together to explore the power, promise and peril of applying social networking and Web 2.0 technologies to the development of human capital.

Gulf Learning Leaders – Building Human Capital

Tiffany & Co. Strengthens Leadership Transitions with Innovative Solutions

Tiffany & Co. uses innovative approaches in their leadership development programs. During the economic crisis that began last year, a selection of these programs was prioritized and allowed for the sustained delivery of high impact, interactive programs to global management in an environment of strict cost control and reduction. A lean “Organizational Effectiveness” team, dedicated to strategic leadership program development and organizational consulting, has designed a powerful combination of instructor-led, web-based social learning programs and interactive web conferences. The Transition2Managment program, designed to accelerate newly-promoted managers’ transitions, will be showcased as one such example of an innovative social learning program – one that has created remarkable results with a remarkably small investment.

In this webinar you will learn:

• How a social learning solution is adding significant value to managers in transition.
• How technology can be used to help you become a learning enabler versus a learning provider by making distributed, work-centric learning a reality.
• How OE uses other technology-based learning enablers like quarterly, interactive web conferences to strengthen and then embed financial skills, business acumen and core leadership concepts into leaders’ daily actions and decisions.

Get Boardroom Ready: The Hidden Value of Benchmarking

Using benchmarking data to build advocacy of L&D is an art. It isn’t as simple as just throwing some bar charts into a PowerPoint slide deck and hoping the executives “get it.”

In this webinar, “Benchmarking Artists” from award winning learning organizations such as Mars, Inc. and Farmers Group will provide you with their own unique and practical methods for selecting, presenting, and explaining benchmarking data in a way that will both grab and keep the attention of your Executives.Whether you are proposing learning solutions or presenting an argument for the strategic relevance of your learning organization, you can use benchmarking data in a dramatic and influential manner.

Don’t miss this webinar to find out how!

How MillerCoors Saved Thousands by Rolling Out Software Using Social Learning

When MillerCoors decided it was time to replace a legacy software application used to track sales volume among distributors, a three person learning design team in MillerCoors University was faced with reaching and teaching more than 1,200 members of the sales group on the chosen replacement application as quickly as possible. The team knew that teaching new software in a classroom is often expensive and yields less than desirable results, particularly with software training. They also knew the range of ages in the sales force meant they would need to address a variety of learning styles as some would want face-to-face time with an instructor, others would want a user name and password and time to figure it out on their own, and others would need a mix of support and independence.

Carrie Urban, Learning Solutions Designer; Jay Anders, Manager of Learning Governance & Systems; and Chris Nilles, Learning Solutions Designer, decided to try something radically new at MillerCoors by initiating a social learning platform to a company that had traditionally used eLearning as a prerequisite for classroom training.

This is their story.

Pfizer's New Lifecycle Approach To Senior Leader Development

The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing dramatic change on many levels which prompted Pfizer to completely reengineer its business. In tandem with their structural changes, Pfizer is revising its approach for developing senior leaders who will face these unprecedented challenges:

• maintain the core business as patents on blockbuster drugs come to an end
• target research on diseases that strike smaller populations and devise financial models to make these solutions profitable
• prepare for unknown future conditions that will emerge as the federal government in the U.S. introduces changes to the nation's healthcare programs

Pfizer is developing a lifecycle approach to prepare senior leaders to think strategically and drive innovation as they confront many conditions they've never before encountered.

Florida Power & Light with CEIA present Making Co-op and Internship Programs a Key Part of your Talent Management Strategy

How To Integrate Learning and Talent Management As A Core Business Process-EMC

The Accenture-MIT Partnership: A Formula for Success

Shell's Executive Leadership Program

Learning Brand in Action: University of Farmers

Driving Innovation in Enterprise Learning with Web 2.0 and Social Networking

You will learn how J&J and CSC are using the latest learning technologies to improve communities of practice, co-create solutions with business partners through brainstorming and collaboration, and accelerate learning by making the experience more fun. The opportunity to accelerate learning is greatly increased when the environment supports teaching and learning with tools, processes, artifacts, and other content (books, articles, blogs, videos, etc.) along with technology to support collaboration and communication with learning peers. Holly and Paul will show you how two, World-Class companies have created breakout results with Social Learning. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn will be explored for applications in corporate learning.

Textron Presents with CorpU: Governance & Organization Structure - Finding The Right Fit To Optimize Performance

Companies continually change organization structures to adapt with the marketplace and drive improved efficiencies. Most change is about driving costs out of the business model and freeing up resources to pursue new initiatives. Corporate learning functions should take a fresh look at their own organization structures to see if they are optimizing current resources. Under the strain of economic conditions, new structures, modified roles and stronger, formalized governance can free up resources for critical projects, and even improve service quality.

Mars, Inc Transforms Its Company Through Its Innovative Approach To Leadership Development

Which Training Best Practices Are Most Critical Right Now?

New CorpU Research Explores The Value of A Strong Learning Brand And Its Ability to Improve Executive Trust

Global Leadership Congress

Starting Right for Sustained Success - R&D University at Procter & Gamble

During the start up of a Corporate University, the project team can set up systems which can improve the chances for long-term success of the program.

By the end of this webinar, you should be able to:

• 1) Name 3 things that can be done during start up to create ...

How to Scale Learning Transfer Using Friday 5s

Unquestionably, learning and leadership development produces the greatest value when participants apply what they’ve learned in a way that improves business results. The challenge is how to equip, support, and hold learners accountable once they return to their work.

Friday5s is a remarkable web-based system used by many CorpU ...

Measuring the Value of Learning

Recognized as the 2008 Best Practice winner for Measurement, the Staples learning and development organization ensures business alignment by tying measurement to business goals. New training initiatives stem from business objectives and results are tied back to business performance including sales, cost savings, and customer retention. Attend this session to ...

Talent Balanced Scorecard - A new Framework to Measure and Manage the value of Corporate Talent

Profitability Per Employee (PPE) is a new metric that’s beginning to show promise as way to measure the intangible value that great talent adds to the corporate balance sheet.  By identifying the incremental improvement in profitability based  on fixed value of total corporate assets, we can begin to isolate ...

Becton Dickinson Leaders as Teachers

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has been cited as having one of the most advanced leaders as teachers processes in the world. Under the umbrella of BD University, the company began to build this unique capability in 2000.  Today, over 90% of BDU’s live, classroom programs are taught and ...

Building a Leadership Pipeline at Infosys - Processess and Challenges

Infosys is a company that has witnessed explosive growth. Beginning in 1981 with a seed capital of $1200- (USD) and revenue of $100K at the end of the first year, it is a $4+ Billion software services behemoth today. From 7 employees, it now has 80,000 (eighty thousand) employees ...

Successful Beginnings: Launching a New Corporate University

What does it take to successfully launch a corporate university from the ground up? Find out how Plastipak Packaging — a $1.7 billion privately held manufacturing company — did it when they launched Plastipak Academy. Winner of the 2008 CorpU Excellence Award in the Launching category, the Academy is an enterprise-wide ...

Farmers Insurance: V-Coach - Simulation Tool for Insurance Claims Reps

Learn by doing – and by making mistakes – without being judged or rated. That’s what V-Coach (short for Virtual Coach), is all about. It allows Farmers Insurance claims representatives to practice their claims investigation skills in a no-consequences virtual environment where they can tackle claims scenarios and create a new ...

Clarian Health: Using Alliances to Create Value

Discover how Clarian Health has utilized alliances and college partnerships to grow their internal workforce and meet critical employment needs within their organization. Jennifer Olson, Senior Educator, will discuss how Clarian Health implemented best practice and some of the lessons learned in their journey to create creative, flexible, and winning ...

Award Winning Learning Practices with The Schwan Food Company

Award winning Schwan's University's Alex Stiber, Senior Director of Organizational Development and Leadership, and Craig Crossley, Metrics Consultant, will provide an overview of the tools and techniques used to align business strategy with talent management, leadership development, and succession planning corporate-wide. They will also discuss their vision for ...

Measuring Business Impact With Sun, US Bank, and Chrysler

Measuring business impact is one of the top priorities of human resources leaders according to recent studies (83% of those surveyed by NelsonHall), but less than 10% actually do it (5%: Bersin study). Some of the reasons given for the mismatch between making business impact measurement a priority and actually ...

Seagate's Talent Management Approach: The Value of an Integrated Strategy

To be able to execute its business strategy, a company has to attract, develop and retain talented employees. In many companies, those processes are separate, run by different departments, with inconsistent and often redundant processes. At Seagate, the world's leading provider of computer disc drives, a single team is ...

Tuition Reimbursement: From Employee Benefit to Strategic Asset

Tuition Reimbursement programs are often considered simply a check-mark employee benefit, with little attention paid to whether a company gets any value from the money spent. But Learning and Development organizations are getting more involved in these programs, and asking questions about them. In response, Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) recently ...

The Key to Competency Development at Infosys

The Key Issues: Developing competencies is usually an internal process that is driven by the behaviors of high-performers, as well as an internal view of what makes these individuals successful. For companies in the service economy, there is another important constituency; "the end-users" of the company's talent - that can ...

Leadership Development Best Practices Webinar: New Research from CorpU and APQC

CorpU recently completed a detailed study with Fortune 500 participants focusing on leadership development and talent management practices used for high potentials and executives. APQC has been gathering data on many aspects of human capital management, including learning practices, through its Open Standards Benchmarking Collaboration (OSBC) activities. In this webinar ...

Staples University: Leadership Development for the Times

As Staples grew quickly from its beginning just 22 years ago to become the leader in its market, the company needed strategic leaders that understood not just the mission, but how to achieve BHAG – big, hairy audacious goals. This required leadership development to be equally strategic, linking learning to business ...

Leadership Development at Pfizer: What Happens After Class

Pfizer has more than five years of experience intentionally, persistently, and successfully designing and deploying Leadership Development that does not end at the classroom door, but continues after participants return to work and apply what they learned. Steve Kontra and Doug Trainor of Pfizer will share the critical success factors ...

Performance Management: Keys to Making it Work

Alan Todd and Raj Ramachandran will describe what it takes to create, manage and sustain a performance management initiative. Their discussion will be based on the results of the May 2007 CUX study, Performance Management: A Critical Lever for Executing Business Strategies . One hundred and fifty companies filled out the ...

Forced Ranking - Good, Bad or Both?

The two speakers will present their views, conduct real-time research and invite the audience to participate in the discussion. Raj Ramachandran will discuss the pros while Sue Todd will highlight research that shows the negatives. Some of the issues they will debate include: Does a company’s overall performance improve ...

Mars, Inc: Launching a Corporate University

Mars, Inc recently launched its corporate university, which garnered the CUX Excellence Award for Best Overall Corporate University along with awards for launching, alignment, marketing and alliances. Lynn Davis will share the journey and some of the learning experiences along the way to their goal of becoming the center for ...

Mark Allen: The Next Generation of Corporate Universities

The number of corporate universities around the globe continues to increase rapidly. But beyond sheer numbers, the significance of corporate universities lies in the ways that organizations are using their corporate universities strategically to help develop people and expand organizational capabilities. As corporations increasingly rely on their corporate universities as ...

Caterpillar's Communities of Practice: Unleashing the Power of the People

Caterpillar University has grown their Knowledge Network into a corporate goldmine that contributes significantly to the growth of the company. Bringing together over 40,000 employees, retirees, and dealers into some 3,500 communities, they have helped restart plants destroyed by tsunamis, and solved countless problems in subjects ranging from ...

The Chief Learning Officer (CLO): Driving Value Within a Changing Organization Through L&D

Tamar Elkeles, VP of Learning for Qualcomm, has written, with Jack Phillips, the definitive book on how the CLO can cope with change and deliver value. During this special one-and-a-half hour webinar, she will share how CLOs can develop strategies, set proper levels of investment, make performance improvement the primary ...

Performance Management: Driving Results at Farmers Insurance

Most companies have to deal with employees that are distributed, sometimes throughout the world. Farmers Insurance has another issue. The company depends on 22,000 independent contractors to meet its business goals. These contractors define the time, place and manner they do their work, making it even harder to affect ...

Onboarding Sanford Health System: It's All About Relationships

Onboarding is a critical issue for all businesses, but is particularly critical for health care organizations, many of which face severe shortages of qualified staff. Sioux Valley Health System, a group of hospitals, clinics and nursing homes, provides interactive learning sessions, opportunities for dialogue, and regular follow-up sessions between clinical ...

Measuring the Performance Impact of Training at Boeing

Successful L&D organizations measure. They know what performance impact they are aiming for, and have rigorous procedures to determine if their goals (and therefore the goals of the business leaders involved with a particular initiative) are met. Mark Dana, from the Learning, Training and Development Organization at the Boeing ...

Learning and Employee Engagement at Caterpillar: Making the Connection

Research has shown that strong employee engagement is key to getting and keeping employees that contribute to improved performance and business results. However, despite a commonly held belief that L&D increases employee engagement, little research exists on the correlation between them. This presentation will describe a groundbreaking study into the relationship between L&D and employee engagement, and how that study is beginning to influence Caterpillar’s learning effort and take it to ...

Creating a Blended Learning Envionment Through Virtual 3D Technology

The learning team at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development (J&J PRD) will describe how they created a virtual, on-demand, "meeting" experience that incorporates real-time Instant Messaging, voice-over IP, and Internet Explorer into one browser to facilitate the accessing of information on the web and behind the corporate firewall. Learn how this solution, which won a CUX Best Practice ...

Success Case: ROI Made Simple, Credible and Effective

Substantiating the value of your training and development programs is necessary but rarely easy. In fact, the process can be complex, costly, and often not sufficiently credible or convincing. CUX's October 18 webinar brings together two experts who will describe and demonstrate a simple process used by many companies ...

Aligning Learning: The Role of Portfolio Management

Everyone struggles with aligning learning to the strategic needs of the business. Companies that are moving to centralized funding or decision-making models, Learning Product Managers or College Deans creating priorities in their particular area, business unit learning leaders, sales training organizations – all have to develop a sense of what really ...

Cisco Systems: Learning Technologies to Enable Productivity

Cisco Systems has been at the heart of many historic changes in technology, and that continues to be true today. Cisco has consistently been on the leading edge of learning technologies and continues to evolve to meet emerging business challenges. As a large organization with more than 48,000 employees ...

Stevens and Con Edison: Creating an On-line Program for Senior Executives

How Stevens and ConEd created a program for ConEd's senior executives designed to give them the analytical skills they need to improve the company's workflow. The custom course, “Analytic Capabilities for Business Improvement,” offers Con Edison employees structured methods for decision making and business improvement processes. ConEd senior ...

Cisco Systems: Building Leaders to Create the Future

Pat Keating will describe how Cisco Systems' worldwide Leadership Education team designed and developed "high-impact" leadership programs that provide strong grounding in leadership foundations and that accelerate major transitions, both business and personal. The Cisco Leadership Series is a set of five programs specifically targeted for high potential managers and ...

Knowledge Sharing at Caterpillar: Moving the Business

• How Caterpillar harnesses the power of people around the world to solve pressing problems.
• How the 3000+ communities of practice involving 35,000 employees are set up, governed, and even eliminated when they are no longer needed.
• How actual savings (and the 50% ROI) are defined and calculated.
• How the ...

Learning and Development: How Australia's Largest Retailer Brings Its Businesses Together

How Coles Myer, along with its partner DeakinPrime, built programs for a cross-section of Coles Myer learners from all brands supporting the business strategy to maximize opportunities for employee interactions across brands.

Coles Myer is the largest retailer in Australia, employing 185,000 people and representing well-known brands such as ...

Learn from the Winner of the CUX Award for BEST OVERALL CORPORATE UNIVERSITY

Cisco Systems, Inc. took home five awards at the Corporate University Xchange 7th Annual Awards Gala and now you can hear about how they did it. In addition to Best Overall, Cisco received awards for Leadership, Measurement, and two separate awards for Technology. The company links learning - with an emphasis ...

Process Improvement and the Art of Sales

Doug Timmel, the College Leader for the Sell process at Air Products University, has developed a new approach to aligning skills, behaviors and L&D needs within a single standardized global sales process. The approach ensures that L&D is part of the overall sales process improvement effort.

This webinar ...