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CorpU's 13th Annual Awards for Excellence and Innovation
The 13th Annual Corporate University Xchange Awards for Excellence and Innovation
Last night, at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, CorpU hosted its 13th annual awards for excellence and innovation in learning and development. The black-tie ceremony held in the Egypt Wing of the museum, honored the achievements by many organizations who pushed the envelope in learning, creating programs and practices that improve both business and employee performance. These awards establish high standards in seven critical learning areas: alignment, alliances, branding, launching, leadership development, learning technologies, and measurement.
Each category was judged by a different ... Read More »
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CorpU Weekly Digest: Learning Excellence (2012-May-14)
Here are this past week's headlines in learning excellence:
(1) Can training help address cultural and trust issues? The US Army is banking on it by connecting special force training with conventional training ;
(2) As tech jobs open up, are you helping your IT managers focus on retaining talent through development? Here are a few tricks to take ;
(3) While the opportunity for m-learning definitely exists for businesses, is mobile learning finally going to be this year’s winning L&D trend to watch out for? ;
(4) Recruiters who focus on an applicant's history of frequent job changes ... Read More »
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CorpU Weekly Digest: Leadership Development (2012-May-14)
Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:
(1) Developing leaders to make better decisions and have better judgment: Some emerging science behind language skills and leveraging collective wisdom ;
(2) What does it take to shake the team at the top out of their risk-averse wait-and-see attitude, even when they know that inertia itself is risky, in order to inspire the requisite boldness so that they act ahead of the need, ahead of the competition—and before hardship or crisis makes action a necessity rather than a choice? ;
(3) Lessons from global industrial company: How putting leadership development ... Read More »
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CorpU Weekly Digest: Social Learning (2012-May-14)
Here are this past week's headlines in social learning:
(1) Social learning, technology, and organizational politics: Enterprise 2.0 and the connection between experimentation, collaboration, and innovation ;
(2) Why Social Learning Analytics? ;
Books: Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change and Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders: Enduring Challenges and Emerging Answers ;
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Social learning, technology, and organizational politics: Enterprise 2.0 and the connection between experimentation, collaboration, and innovation.In this extended riff by Roberta Gogos, the implications of social learning in enterprise 2.0 are explored ... Read More »
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Landi Renzo Case Study: Making Learning a Strategic Asset 
Landi Renzo Group, S.p.A. (Landi Renzo) serves more than 30% of the market for LPG and CNG alternative automotive fuel systems and components. In 2009, the company implemented a new strategic plan, and the president and CEO of the company determined that education could be a key driver for the Landi Renzo's strategic development. The challenge for the existing corporate university was to create learning that addressed the company's strategic needs and create a culture where everyone in the company understood the value of that learning in reaching their individual goals and those of the company ... Read More »
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CorpU Weekly Digest: Social Learning (2012-May-08)
Here are this past week's headlines in social learning:
What role does social learning play in optimizing training, and in particular distance training via e-learning platforms? ;
Books: The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization and Dispute Resolution: Negotiation Mediation & Other Processes ;
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What role does social learning play in optimizing training, and in particular distance training via e-learning platforms?Social learning tends to supplement distance training through social media, aimed at creating more effective communication between students and learning managers as well as optimizing the training course objectives. Social learning develops informal training (learning outside the scope of a ... Read More »
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CorpU Weekly Digest: Leadership Development (2012-May-08)
Here are this past week's headlines in leadership development:
(1) Trendwatching, episode 259: Motivation and manager's tools in the era of globalization, mobile/always-on work, self-directed careers. Do your leadership development programs really help managers lead individuals? ;
(2) Negotiators gain more concessions with cool threats than with heated words ;
(3) It's widely recognized that a company’s leadership, culture and core competencies can be important to its success. But another, often overlooked, critical source of differentiation is the company's beliefs. Do your leadership development programs help instill corporate beliefs? ;
Books: The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization ... Read More »
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CorpU Weekly Digest: Learning Excellence (2012-May-08)
Here are this past week's headlines in learning excellence:
(1) Just in time for spring, optimism about pay among American workers seems to be growing, according to a new survey. So how can HR make the most hay with this bit of sunshine? ;
(2) What should performance management systems do? ;
(3) When asked about their top business concerns for 2011, CEOs named Talent Management first. But what exactly do leaders require from their talent? ;
Books: The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization and Dispute Resolution: Negotiation Mediation & Other Processes ;
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Just in time for spring, optimism about pay ... Read More »
