Executive onboarding helps accelerate the productivity of a new executive, and provides a new, unique, and challenging role for executive development practitioners. Without question, the most significant difference in working at the executive level is that everything is... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives , Workforce Development

Career Development , Coaching and Mentoring , Curriculum Alignment , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Leadership Development , Management Development , Training and Development - General

Training expert, Theresa Hummel-Krallinger, and former senior executive, Jim Yoakum, draw from several decades of experience to define just what skills are needed to "get-a-seat-at-the table," and how these skills can be developed. Hummel-Krallinger and Yoakum sound a c... More »

Career Development , Global Human Resources Development , Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Career Development , Curriculum Alignment , Global Workforce Development , Human Performance Improvement , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General , Trends

An excerpt from The Business Case for E-learning (Cisco Press, 2004). In the course of writing The Business Case for E-learning, we reviewed approaches to e-learning that had been adopted by a number of companies. We were especially intrigued with the use of simulations... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development

Curriculum Alignment , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Training and Development - General

When I worked for GTE in the early 90s, every year the division chief executive would stand before the assembled employees to give his annual talk on how business was going. We would sit and listen dutifully as he reeled off the numbers. Ill never forget when a colleagu... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Curriculum Alignment , Human Performance Improvement , Informal Learning , Training and Development - General