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Transforming Your Company Into a Learning Organization
In 1958, the average tenure of companies on the S&P 500 was 60 years. Today, that number is 10, and this rapid pace of change shows no sign of slowing any time soon. In addition to the accelerating pace of change, work is more complex than ever before;...
10 Principles for Delivering Virtual Learning Events
As learning and development professionals continue to adapt to the new realities of the workplace in 2020, many trainings and workshops are now being conducted online. Although it is impossible to fully replicate the experience of an in-person meeting, there...
Virtual Teaming Requires Deliberate Practice
Doug Shupinski is Director of Leadership Development at Merck, and no stranger to leading virtual teams at all levels. Doug spoke with our team to convey his trust and excitement in the opportunities available to all of us in holding our meetings virtually, even...
Maximize the Human Elements
In our recent interview with Mario about adapting our working world during this global crisis, Mario emphasized that the basics remain the same: we have to practice staying connected and the most simple of rules still apply when conducting virtual meetings. More...
Provide Strength Through Culture & Networking
When people come together in groups, a culture naturally develops. With many of us converting our meetings and our work to a virtual setting, we must remember that culture is still always with us - we are still people interacting together. We need to fight any...
Attributes of Positively Energizing Leaders
At the heart of positive leadership lies the concept of positive energy. It is almost impossible to be a positive leader without also being a source of positive energy. The research is very clear that positively energizing leaders can generate exceptional performance...
Positive Leadership Principles
Human beings are mostly inclined toward positive energy, toward the light and life-giving sources, both literally and figuratively. Positive Leadership principles are particularly applicable now, in this current circumstance of the pandemic. In this video, Kim Cameron...
Deeper Social Connections are The Key
Shawn Achor describes how the COVID crisis is so unique in how we perceive and create social connections, the number one predictor of our long-term levels of happiness and success. In the midst of this huge challenge, we will need to - more...
The Science of Stress
A crisis may leave us feeling almost paralyzed. And our stress levels rise. Recent study of stress teaches us that there is a way to move past that immobilizing feeling, to restart our belief system that our behavior can make a difference. Shawn Achor...
3 Things Leaders Must Give in a Crisis
For any leader of an organization, says Dave Ulrich, there are three dimensions that leaders must provide for the well-being of employees. The three sentiments that must be present are: Believe: "I'm doing work that has meaning"Become: "I'm learning, I'm...
Navigating an Unpredictable Crisis
No one alive has experienced a global crisis like the Coronavirus and its unprecedented impact on personal and professional lives. Personal and family health will always have priority. We all mourn with those that mourn and we take care of our loved ones....
How To Rapidly Virtualize Strategic Learning
Our panelists had an incredibly engaging conversation on leading through crisis. Erica Wright from Agilent Technologies, Erin Mara from BJ’s Wholesale Club, and Steve Warner from Nestlé each shared how they are rapidly virtualizing talent and leadership development...
Developing An Effective Decision-Making Process
More people are making more decisions—and are being forced to make them faster—in an increasingly unpredictable and less forgiving environment. Whatever their role or organization, most professionals have to make a decision “now”—followed by another decision...
The Four Pillars of Positive Leadership
In today’s fast-paced economy, it is important for leaders and organizations to create positive work environments for their teams. Although this can be a challenge for every leader, it may be especially challenging for first-time managers and newly promoted leaders....
How Vigilant Companies Gain an Edge in Turbulent Times
The costs of being slow to sense threats and opportunities on the competitive horizon can be devastating. Just ask RadioShack, a pioneer in catering to electronics hobbyists. After jumping into mobile phone distribution in the 1990s, the U.S.-based retail chain with...
How Vigilant Organizations Act Faster
The world of business is increasingly turbulent. And as the pace of technological change accelerates, organizations must learn to see signals sooner and -- importantly-- learn to act faster than rivals upon those insights. Charles Schwab did so when it became an early...
Develop Vigilant Leaders to Stay A Step Ahead of Competitors
In the mid-2000s, RadioShack was so focused on serving a growing population of smartphone users that it failed to see it was alienating its loyal electronic hobbyist client base. Those hobbyists began shopping elsewhere, and, when corporations like AT&T and Apple...
How Vigilant Firms Orchestrate Financial Payoffs
In a study of 135 multinational firms over an eight-year period, vigilant organizations had 200% higher growth in market capitalization and were 33% more profitable than their vulnerable rivals.1 This field study built on an earlier Harvard Business Review assessment...
Creating the Purpose-Driven Organization
A family member had an emergency and I spent a lot of time with him in the hospital. The experience was not pleasant. Most of our interactions with the doctors suggested a lack of caring. They seemed stressed or withdrawn, and in one case, deeply abusive. Given...
Becoming a Purpose Driven Organization
The concept of a purpose-driven leader or a purpose-driven organization is not new. But how to do it successfully has been elusive. This book presents a compelling economic argument for WHY you should become a purpose-driven organization NOW, and illustrates HOW to...
You Can’t Create A Learning Organization Without Cleaning the Tank
In their 2016 paper, “The Great Training Robbery,” researchers at Harvard Business School explained how the $164 billion corporations spent on corporate learning in 2012 produced little change in individual or organizational behavior or in financial performance. Most...
How to Build Organizational Resilience
Driven by exponential technological change and sociopolitical and economic uncertainty, the average lifespan of companies on the S&P Index is becoming shorter and more volatile. The pace of change is accelerating. Employers and workers are under immense stress to...
IELA Announces Winners of 2019 E-Learning Awards Business Division
Every June on the final day of the International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace at Columbia University, the winners of the International e-Learning Association’s Business Division Awards are announced. This year’s winners reflect a growing focus on building...
Three Small Actions To Make Better Decisions
Critical thinking and decision making skills frequently rank as the top attributes companies believe effective leaders should possess. And researchers at Bain & Company have found that decision effectiveness is 95 percent correlated with financial performance. At...
CorpU and Penn State Recognized for Award-Winning Work With Agilent Technologies
CorpU and Penn State Smeal College of Business received the Silver Award in this year’s coveted 2018 Learning In Practice Awards sponsored by Chief Learning Officer magazine. The Excellence in Academic Partnerships award recognized the solution developed cooperatively...
Agilent Technologies Wins Gartner Talent Payback of the Year Award
Agilent Technologies, a leading Life Sciences firm, has won a prestigious Talent Payback of the Year Award from Gartner’s SCM World Community. Agilent’s Supply Chain Academy, powered by the CorpU Organizational Learning System, represents a breakthrough in learning...
Agilent Receives Prestigious Gartner Inc. Power of the Profession Award 2019 for Talent Payback of the Year
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that it has received a Gartner Inc. Power of the Profession Award in the category of Talent Payback of the Year, a prestigious honor that recognizes the company’s innovative...
Leading the Adaptive Enterprise – Become a Learning Organization
Listen to Learn
By Alan Todd Proving the value of learning and development programs is important, but it’s no easy feat. According to data from LinkedIn’s 2017 Workplace Learning Report, 32 percent of learning executives believe demonstrating ROI is a top challenge for L&D, and...
The Four Steps Of Strategic Persuasion
By Alan Todd and Dr. Mario Moussa Work relationships are becoming flatter, looser, wider, and faster. By 2020, flexible labor will represent 20 percent of the workforce, with work becoming more project-based. Nearly 50 percent of managers now spend half their work...
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