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Frontline Leaders Are Hungry for Development. Can Organizations Deliver?

Diane Belcher — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:00:11 +0000

Frontline leaders crave development opportunities. That’s encouraging for those tasked with developing the capabilities of the people leaders who supervise an estimated 80% of the workforce.[i] The not-so-great news? There’s a gap between what frontline managers want from their leadership development experiences and what companies deliver. Today’s frontline leaders are highly motivated to grow and learn—about topics that reach far beyond what’s been traditionally served up to them. Companies that don’t respond to the interests of this vital segment of their workforce face an uphill battle in retention, employee engagement, and more. Here are the areas where these frontline […]

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Digital Intelligence Series Part Five: Acting on Digital Opportunities

Abbey Lewis — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:15:24 +0000

For today’s leaders, Digital Intelligence is simply a requirement. No matter which industry you are in, technology is continually reshaping it. A critical part of building Digital Intelligence is adopting a digital mindset that opens one up to the opportunities new tools and technologies can offer. Leaders must also foster a digital culture in their teams, ensuring that team members are continually upgrading their capabilities. The ability to draw insights from data is another key dimension of Digital Intelligence. Armed with these capabilities leaders and their teams are empowered to act on digital opportunities to improve processes and accomplish more […]

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Helping Masdar’s Managers Become High-Performing Leaders

Stefaan Van Waes — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:58:02 +0000

As the global leader on the front line of clean energy research, technology, and commercialization, Masdar recognizes the importance of their middle management to the company’s success and the need to transition them to high-performing leaders. Masdar has a lot of responsibility, serving the strategic priorities of the UAE leadership, and helping fulfill the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030. A recent company employee engagement survey made it clear that self-improvement was a high priority goal to improve throughout the company, specifically at the middle manager level. To address that goal, Masdar partnered with us at Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning […]

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Putting Content to Work

Hallie Boger — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:08:24 +0000

This is the fourth in a four-part series on research we’ve done into key challenges for L&D teams. Read the third part here. With endless access to technology and an ever-growing stream of content and resources, we are overloaded with options. The same rings true when it comes to learning. Your employees now have access to numerous different sources and programs, but with so many options it becomes difficult to know where to start. It’s no wonder content is such a hot-button issue for L&D: 66% of the respondents in our survey rated content discoverability as very or extremely important, […]

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Future Workforce Podcast: Client Roundtable Discussions

Larry Clark — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:23:59 +0000

In the latest installment of our podcast, we hear from 10 clients as they share their insights and experiences in preparing for and enabling the workforce of the future. No matter what industry you are in, the size of your business, or where in the world you are, work is fundamentally changing. New technologies and new workplace cultures are driving organizations to rethink the way they manage and train. They’re setting high goals for capitalizing on the new opportunities presented and looking to their L&D professionals to deliver solutions that prepare the workforce to reach those goals. For our newest […]

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Hyper-Engaging Your Hyperspecialists

Rajeev Mandloi — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:00:42 +0000

This is the third post in a series on jobs of the future. Read the second post here. We know just how much digital transformation is disrupting work and increasing computational power exponentially. And that means the competitive landscape is changing. For businesses to retain their market share, they must embrace the change and integrate these new technologies into their operations. But doing so requires highly specialized professionals to navigate this complex technological environment with an in-depth expertise in their vertical. A concept dictating a new reality in the market, hyperspecialization implies that a larger process is broken down into […]

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Follow the Leaderboard to Learner Engagement

Ian Marge — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:11:29 +0000

This is the third and final post in a series on learner engagement. Read the second post here. As anyone who spent a bored moment or two in class knows, engaging learners has always been a challenge – and that has been true whether the learner is a kindergartner in a classroom or an employee developing new skills in a corporate setting. In the corporate learning world, the advent of virtual and blended learning made the challenge more acute. Thanks to the development of new insights into learning and technological advances, the code to making the virtual learning experience as […]

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Hybrid Jobs Need Hybrid Learning Experiences

Rajeev Mandloi — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:00:52 +0000

As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the expectations that companies have for existing jobs are advancing along with it. Employees are now required to possess the skills to harness the power of these technologies. New research on close to a billion job postings and resumes from Burning Glass Technologies, a workforce analytics firm, has shown that jobs are becoming increasingly complex and call for a broader range of skillsets than what we’ve traditionally required for them. This progression of job requirements has led to jobs becoming more “hybrid” in nature. We’ve all started to hear the term, […]

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Leveraging Technology Platforms for the Best Learning Experiences

Dennis Gullotti — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:39:02 +0000

As organizations put more pressure on the shoulders of L&D teams to meet the changing needs of the workforce, L&D must decide what underlying technologies to use. Which platform approach will carry them into the future? How they can navigate from their current infrastructure to a new learning tech ecosystem? We looked into how our clients are approaching these complex questions to better understand the current landscape and where things are headed. There are many options available to deliver learning experiences. The two main categories to date have been learning management systems (LMSs) and learning experience platforms (LXPs). Where LMSs […]

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Digital is Important, but Leadership is the Enduring Thread

Dennis Gullotti — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:00:32 +0000

Digital skills are essential. Organizations expect new graduates to be fluent in data analytics and digital tools as they enter the workforce for the first time. Workers at all levels of experience – individual contributors, managers, and leaders — are taking initiative to acquire or expand their digital skills on their own. And L&D teams are undertaking upskilling and reskilling initiatives to develop their existing employee bases. And yet, digital skills are insufficient. IBM’s Enterprise Guide to Closing the Skills Gap is based on a large global survey, and the research found that while digital and technical skills can be […]

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