It’s All in Here! How Do We Get It Out?

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Jane Collins

Ron has worked for XYZ company for more than 40 years. He started in a frontline position and has worked his way up to manager of customer service after holding a variety of jobs along the way. Ron has a wealth of knowledge and experience, and he is getting ready to ret... More »

Learning With and From Others: Restructuring Budgets for Social Learning

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Dan Pontefract

A confluence of issues, both mitigated and unmitigated, has arisen over the past several quarters. Budget cuts, staff reductions, travel embargos, and facility consolidation have left many chief learning officers and learning professionals clamoring for the emergency br... More »

Begin With the End in Mind: The Goal-Driven Mentoring Relationship

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Lois J. Zachary

Clarifying and articulating learning goals is indispensable to the success of a mentoring relationship. While some mentees come to a mentoring relationship with well-defined goals, it is more the exception than the rule. Most mentees come with a general idea about what ... More »

Creating a New Mindset: Guidelines for Mentorship in Today’s Workplace

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Randy Emelo

Mentoring has proven again and again to be an effective workforce development tool. A 2009 study by Triple Creek looked at the impact of e-mentoring (specifically "open mentoring") on productivity and effectiveness. Eighty-eight percent of open mentoring users agreed th... More »

How Does Social Learning Measure Up?

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Gene Pease

Measurement is convenient for the learning function when visible metrics such as revenue or time-to-quota are clear markers of the success of a learning initiative. Unfortunately, not every program or initiative deployed has such easily aligned metrics, and there can be... More »