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CorpU Weekly Digest: Learning Excellence (2012-May-21)
Here are this past week's headlines in learning excellence:
(1) According to a recent BCG survey, talent is increasingly difficult to find and retain in China, and this talent shortage will only worsen over the next decade. But there are a few things one can do about it ;
(2) The science of how we form habits can be used to transform company culture ;
(3) Asking questions about culture to help leverage its features in your learning and development programs ;
(4) Staff turnover is recognized as expensive and problematic across all industries, but it's arguably more so in the ... 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 »
Case Study
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: 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 »
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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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CorpU Weekly Digest: Learning Excellence (2012-Apr-30)
Here are this past week's headlines in learning excellence:
(1) Lessons to be learned from failure: The US's Central Intelligence Agency, Strategic Surprise, and the Learning and Development's Role in Promoting Cognitive Diversity ;
(2) BCG study on the role of organizational capabilities in business reorganization success, including a company's capacity for instituting change ;
(3) Managing for performance using extrinsic motivators and understanding trust: some insight from Wharton, U Washington and Michigan State ;
Books: Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders and Leverage Leadership ;
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Lessons to be learned from failure: The US's Central Intelligence ... Read More »
Case Study
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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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Case Study: Using Technology to Accelerate Information Flow
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a leading player in the IT services and consulting space, with 180,000 employees worldwide. The business involves developing, supporting and maintaining software applications from multiple centers across the globe with geographically distributed teams. Being in a knowledge intensive industry, employees need to be at the cutting edge of technology and business to be effective in delivering results that will enable the company to continue to grow. The size and spread of the organization, the extremely demanding and dynamic nature of business, and increasing statutory and compliance requirements pose multiple challenges to meeting the learning ... Read More »
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CorpU Weekly Digest: Learning Excellence (2012-Apr-23)
Here are this past week's headlines in learning excellence:
(1) How are you adapting for m-learning? Mobile education market exploding across all sectors, according to McKinsey & GSMA study ;
(2) Are we seeing the future of the university model in corporate universities? Prof Juan Carlos de Martin thinks so ;
(3) Emerging market trends put a premium on both attracting and building talent through a coherent professionalized approach on strategic talent management: one that puts to rest excessive reliance on poaching and serendipity, according to BCG ;
Books: The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance ... Read More »
Case Study
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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Raytheon Case Study: Creating a Brand for Learning
Raytheon's Corporate Learning Unit, Global Talent Development and Learning (GTDL), is part of the Corporate Human Resources function. Its mission is to ensure the right people are in the right roles with the right capabilities at the right time to maximize individual potential and business value. Following a structural reorganization that moved the learning organization under Corporate Human Resources, GTDL determined that confusion existed about the identity of learning and development and that there was limited awareness of the resources and benefits of learning and development across the employee population of 75,000.
GTDL's communications leader put together ... Read More »
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CorpU Weekly Digest: Learning Excellence (2012-Apr-16)
Here are this past week's headlines in learning excellence:
(1) Building differentiators that are difficult for competition to imitate gives firms a strong competitive advantage. In an increasingly globalized world, one of the key differentiators for firms will be their "people" practices ;
(2) According to research from IESE, personal sustainability management can change work cultures ;
(3) The hidden cost to collaboration is ignoring outside input, according to a recent study ;
(4) Is it time to renegotiate with your vendors? Here are some new pricing models to consider ;
Books: Work and Quality of Life: Ethical Practices in Organizations and The ... Read More »
