What’s In The Comments: Meaningful Interpretation

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by Meg Chute | December 5, 2017

Organizations engaged in transformation are increasingly turning to large cohort programs to align their leaders on strategy. They’ve found that a highly contextualized learning experience can reach several hundred to several thousand leaders quickly and align them for driving the strategy forward. These large cohort programs can become even more effective when participant feedback is used throughout to determine any changes that are required. Giving learners a variety of opportunities to provide feedback has a second benefit: it’s at the core of participant-centered learning and drives both high-quality engagement and impact. Sophisticated online systems gather a lot of data, both […]

Dispelling Common Microlearning Myths

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by Dora Gao | November 30, 2017

Meeting the time-crunch challenge with microlearning We hear a lot these days about microlearning, an approach that meets today’s time-crunch challenge by providing learning opportunities in short multimedia bursts across a variety of devices. Microlearning is well-suited to the interests and style of today’s learners. They’re comfortable with technology, always have a device on hand, and understand that continuous learning and the agility to quickly adapt to change are crucial to career and personal growth. Organizations are finding that employee recruitment and retention depend on their ability to provide employees – especially Millennials – opportunities to learn, grow, and develop. […]

Reimagining Executive Development: What I Learned In Amsterdam

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by Dalia Molokhia | November 27, 2017

I had the pleasure of attending and heading up a session at the 9th Executive Development Knowledge Exchange Conference hosted by iVentiv earlier this month in the heart of Amsterdam’s thriving city centre. Through my interactions with all of the participating learning leaders, I was yet again reminded of the famous quote by William Ford Gibson who said, “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” In the world of executive development, it certainly describes the current state we’re in. We kicked the day off with a collaborative learning café in which the participants discussed four main […]

Crafting A Career That’s A “Fascinating Journey”

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by Elaine Backman | November 20, 2017

Vinod Parmeshwar’s career at Oxfam America has been “a fascinating journey.” He began by helping set up a large microfinance program for the organization. From there, he moved into communications, serving as Oxfam America’s first brand manager. He then became deputy director of the policy and campaigns division. The next stop on Vinod’s “fascinating journey” was human resources, which he now heads up. When he spoke with us about his career for our latest updates to Harvard ManageMentor®, he explained: “My journey has been propelled, in part, by my own values and how I preferred to move in the absence […]

Adapt, Innovate, Transform: Key Takeaways From Our Kuala Lumpur Forum

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by Neil Porter | November 17, 2017

What does it take to overcome the challenges of today’s global business? Insights from our recent Leadership Forum in Kuala Lumpur shed light on the relationship between leadership, corporate culture, and digital transformation. Our Kuala Lumpur forum convened learning leaders to hear from thought leadership experts and to share their own journeys with one another. Keynote Scott Anthony, co-author of the new Harvard Business Review book “Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business While Creating the Future,” illustrated the need for organizations to simultaneously reimagine their current offerings, while creating innovative new transformational offerings. Two virtual sessions highlighted just how […]