Sponsorship, Cascading And Impact: Leadership Development Success At Cinépolis

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by Lisa Buettner | October 3, 2016

We are featuring blogs this month on all of our gold-medal-winning clients in this year’s Brandon Hall Excellence in Human Capital Management Awards. In September, Cinépolis—the second largest luxury cinema company in the world by number of customers—was recognized as a gold medal winner for “Best Advance in Leadership Development” in Brandon Hall’s Human Capital Management Awards. I had the privilege of working with this dedicated team on the award-winning program. But what differentiates a good, or even great, leadership development program from a “gold medal” program? And how can L&D professionals around the world learn from their example? Here […]

Five Ways To Engage Learners Throughout A Large Cohort Program

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by Marisa Plowman | August 30, 2016

So you’ve decided to adopt a large cohort learning strategy to help you accelerate the pace in which you develop your leaders. But with that decision comes an additional challenge: Sustaining engagement for your learners from the beginning of a learning experience to the end and beyond. As an L&D professional, the strong link between learner engagement, the sustainment of learning and long-term behavior change is crystal clear. So what can you do to drive learner engagement for your large cohort development programs, in which the number of learners is large, and their connection to the program can feel distant? […]

The Language Of Leadership

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by Diane Belcher | May 16, 2016

Some people are “language people.” They have a natural ability to quickly grasp and absorb the art of communication in almost any native tongue. I’m not a language person; they’ve always posed a challenge for me. And while I’m often impressed by those who are comfortable in multiple languages, I’m even more struck by how profoundly we’re connected by so many shared human experiences – experiences that enable us to live, grow, and interact in universal ways – no matter what language we speak. And when I meet with our clients – who hail from so many different countries, and […]

Engaging And Efficient: Scaling Learning At Your Organization

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by Marisa Naughton | May 13, 2016

Companies are finding that a leadership mind-set is not needed simply at its highest levels, but also throughout an organization. At the same time, the options and opportunities for learning are multiplying – from virtual to self-directed to content-driven. How can L&D professionals both efficiently and effectively leverage learning opportunities to engage their entire organization? Last week we had the pleasure of hosting a panel discussion on effectively scaling learning throughout an organization with three of our clients at the The Conference Board’s Leadership Development Conference in New York. Josh Brand, our senior director for global delivery, led a conversation […]

Springing Into Innovation With Rita Gunther McGrath

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by Jen Sprague | May 12, 2016

Spring in the Big Apple is always invigorating. The environment changes daily as the temps warm and there’s constant motion of cars, people, new ideas. Feels kind of like the ever-changing and fluid business environment that most of us are working in, and a great backdrop for sharing ideas on achieving a sustainable competitive edge from author Rita McGrath. McGrath joined our roundtable discussion at the Harvard Club of New York City with several of our top clients, and followed that with a larger group discussion over breakfast. As an innovation and strategy expert, she stressed to both audience the concept […]