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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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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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Westinghouse University Case Study: Aligning a Corporate University to Meet the Needs of the Business
Overview
Westinghouse University — a new corporate university launched in 2010 — was created to meet new and evolving industry challenges and growth. It was designed to have four major components: 1) Administration, 2) Colleges, 3) Operations, and 4) Training Councils. Each component has been structured to play a critical role in aligning the University with the company's business goals and objectives. With these four components working together to ensure cross-functional service quality and consistency to support business goals, Westinghouse University has determined that, even though they are a new learning organization, their efforts have already been successful.
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Rapidly evolving ... Read More »
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Alstom University Case Study: Learning to Support Growth
Alstom is a world leader in supplying the needs of the power generation, power grid and rail transportation industries. The company almost went bankrupt in 2003, but has since grown to a company with 93,500 employees and revenues of €20.9 billion in 2010/2011. Even during its hardest times, however, the company continued to train employees. The problem was that the learning was scattered and uneven and would not properly support a company that was embarked on a major rebuilding effort and moving into new markets and market sectors. Alstom University (AU) was tasked to create a new ... Read More »
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McCain Foods Case Study: Leadership Development Tied to the Culture
McCain Foods is a leading food manufacturer with 53 plants on six continents. Although there were dozens of regional leadership curriculums and performance management systems used globally, there was only limited commonality among the programs and none had direct links to McCain's business strategy. As a result, there was no universal leadership language and also no tie-in to the behavioral expectations of leaders across the organization. The McCain Learning Centre (MLC) was asked to develop a curriculum to change that. The effort had three specific goals:
Increased awareness and understanding of the company's strategic plan and leadership expectations ... Read More »
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Quintiles Case Study: L&D Drives Business Success
Quintiles is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide. The company has a network of more than 23,000 engaged professionals in 60 countries. In 2005, after a period of rapid growth, the company was having trouble growing revenues, and realized that one of the reasons was high turnover, particularly among new hires. The company was devoting a lot of time and money to hiring people to replace the people that were leaving, and it was keeping it from moving forward.
The Global Learning and Development group at Quintiles conducted an employee engagement ... Read More »
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McDonald’s in China Case Study: Branding the Newest Hamburger University to Increase Awareness and Support Aggressive Growth
Overview
With aggressive growth intended for its market in China, McDonald's launched the seventh Hamburger University in China in order to develop local talent into future leaders to take on the challenge of rapid expansion. That commitment to provide the best-in-class training and career development opportunities to their employees is reflected in the University's tagline “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow”. Using this tagline and a combination of multiple, complimentary communication strategies geared at brand awareness, the Hamburger University in China hoped to attract high performance learning professionals to work there, as well as to engage employees in China to ... Read More »
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AT&T Case Study: Developing Leaders Virtually
Overview
AT&T is, by revenue, the largest communications holding company in the world. The company has had to make many changes over the years, reflecting advances in technology and communications, government policies regulating the telecommunications industry, mergers and acquisitions, and the rise of the global economy. The company's most recent merger occurred in 2006 between AT&T and BellSouth and the consolidated ownership of Cingular Wireless and YP.COM. The promise of that merger was that the integration of products, capabilities, networks, and operations into something the senior executives called One AT&T, which would deliver a unique ... Read More »
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CorpU Webinar Jiffy Lube University’s Strategies to Support Profitable Growth
The Manager of Learning and Development led and leads this effort. By working closely with Jiffy Lube International, the Jiffy Lube Association of Franchisees, and the company’s senior leadership, the Manager of L&D is able to identify how JLU can meet each of their unique business needs and align JLU’s strategies to support them.
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Paul Reynolds: "He Was Me" Video from "Storytelling and Learning"
The "He Was Me" video was part of Paul Reynold's wonderful GLC 2011 workshop, "Storytelling and Learning," which is also available on this site under that title. View the presentation, and see how the principles Paul discusses are exemplied in this wonderful animated film.
Paul Reynolds is CEO of FableVision, an internationally recognized multimedia developer and publisher, with partnerships, strategic alliances and clients across many industries. Working with his twin and company founder Peter, Paul oversees creative strategy on all major initiatives to blueprint projects, as well as overseeing the many teams who execute on that vision. Prior to ... Watch Video »
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Amit Das: Video Production in the Workplace
Amit Das joined the PennGSE after 15 years at NYU as a member of the NYU-Film faculty and as Director of NYU’s Department of Film, Video and Broadcasting. Recent filmmaking credits include "Freedom School" and "A Safe Place To Play" for WHYY PBS Philadelphia. At the 2011 Global Leadership Congress, Amit Das led a workshop entitled "New Dogs, Old Tricks: Learning Video Production in the Workplace," in which participants were given a primer and introduction to storytelling through motion pictures, practicing and honing audio-visual communication skills and learning how to communicate effectively, engagingly and creatively with video. Read More »
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Paul Reynolds: Storytelling and Learning
Paul Reynolds is CEO of FableVision, an internationally recognized multimedia developer and publisher, with partnerships, strategic alliances and clients across many industries. Working with his twin and company founder Peter, Paul oversees creative strategy on all major initiatives to blueprint projects, as well as overseeing the many teams who execute on that vision. Prior to FableVision, Paul helped found and run the innovative elearning media firm Cosmic Blender for nearly fifteen years, until it was sold to an international media/PR group. At the 2011 Global Leadership Congress, Paul led a hands-on workshop entitled "Storytelling and Learning" that explored how ... Read More »
